Download PDF : E&M 26.3 GUEST EDITORIAL Avarice and health Care Crisis Eugene F. Diamond, MD GREY MATTERS Doing No Harm to Hippocrates: Reality and Virtual Reality in Ethics Education William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS End-of-Life Care in the Long-Term Cancer Survivor Katelyn Braswell, Wilburn Bolton, MD, Grace Hundley, MD, and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Sacred Cells? A Reply to Peters, Lebacoqz, and Bennett Gary S. Elkins, PhD How Much Respect Do We Owe the Embryo? Limits to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dennis L. Sansom, PhD Does Pharmacologically-Altered Memory Change Personal Identity? Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness Nancy Berlinger. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8176-6; 156 PAGES, PAPER $25.00. Reviewed by Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN, who is an associate clinical professor (Neurology) at University of Illinois College of Medicine, a hospital ethicist at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana-Champaign and is medical director for medical subspecialties at Carle Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy Jan-Otto Ottosson and Max Fink. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-94659-X; 127 PAGES, HARDCOVER, $39.95. Reviewed by Charles R. Young, MD, who is now […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 26:2 Summer 2010
Download PDF : E&M 26.2 EDITORIAL The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Does Alien Hand Syndrome Refute Free Will? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Need to Know: Disclosure of Information to Pediatric Patients Wayne R Waz, MD On the Nature of Tube Feeding: Basic Care or Medical Treatment? Erik M Clary, MDiv, MA Dignity Never Been Photographed: Scientific Materialism, Enlightenment Liberalism, and Steven Pinker Francis J Beckwith, PhD Physician Autonomy Vs. Self-Regulation: You Can’t Have One Without the Other Amir A Khlig, PhD, Art K Mwachofi, PhD, Robert W Broyles, PhD Book Reviews Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise Holly Fernandez Lynch. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-262-12305-1; 376 PAGES, HARDCOVER $34.00. Reviewed by Sharon F. Billon, MA (Bioethics), MD, FAAD who is retired from the private practice of dermatology in Arroyo Grande, California, USA. Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier; introduction by John Swinton. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8308-3452-5; 115 PAGES, PAPER, $15.00. Reviewed by David C. Cramer, MDiv, MA (Philosophy or Religion), who is an Adjunct Professor for the School of […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 26:1 Spring 2010
Download PDF : E&M 26.1 EDITORIAL Killing Euthanasia C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Just Enhancement William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS To Dialyze or not to Dialyze Gregory W. Rutecki, MD, Robert D. Orr, MD On Clinical Errors in Geriatric medical Diagnosis: Ethical Issues and Policy Implications E.M. Inelmen, G. Sergi, G. Enzi, I.D. Toffanello, A. Coin, E. Manzato, E. Inelmen An Ethical Analysis of Professional Codes in Health and Medical Care Vanessa Littleton, Natthani Meemon, Gerald-Mark Breen, Binyam Seblega, Seung Chun Paek, Michael Loyal, Nancy Ellis, Thomas T.H. Wan Book Reviews Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics Approach Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8018-8526-4; 155 PAGES, HARDCOVER $35.00. Reviewed by Jacob William Shatzer, MDiv, who serves on the staff of the Kairos Journal and lives in Louisville, KY. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Permanently Unconscious Patient Ronald P. Hamel and James J. Walter, Editors. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1589011786; 294 PAGES, PAPER, $29.95. Reviewed by Agneta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College at the University of London, both in […]