Ethics & Medicine Volume 25:2 Summer 2009

Download PDF : E&M 25.2 GUEST COMMENTARY Pulling the Sheet Back Down: A Response to Battin on the Practice of Terminal Sedation Patrick T. Smith, MDiv. MA, PhD(cand.), and James S. Boal, MD GREY MATTERS Accelerated Thought in the Fast Lane William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS On the Permissibility of a DNR Order for the Patient with Dismal Prognosis Ryan R. Nash, MD Revitalizing Medicine: Empowering Natality vs. Fearing Mortality Brent Waters, DPhil Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Matthew Flannagan, PhD A Virtue-Ethical Approach towards applying Principilism Jeffrey W. Bulger, PhD Book Reviews The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Chicago and London: The Bioethics Press, 2001 ISBN 0-9711599-0-4; 187 pages, paper $21.95 Reviewed by Agnetta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London, both in the UK. End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005 ISBN 0-262-02574-4; 266 Pages: Hardcover, $32.00 Reviewed by Claretta Yvonne Dupree, RN, PhD, who is an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Department of Nursing. […]