Ethics & Medicine : Volume 27:3 Fall 2011

Download PDF : E&M 27.3 EDITORIAL Conflicts of Conscience Matter Because Medicine Matters C. Ben Mitchell CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS When Doctors Disagree Anonymous GREY MATTERS When Conscience Meddles with Ethics William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD In Defence of Selflessness: A Philoshopical Analysis of a Central Virtue in Professional Caring Practices Bart Cusveller, BNurs, PhD Phil Decisions, Moral Status, and the Early Fetus David Jensen, MA, PhD The American Academy of Pediatrics and Female Genital Cutting: When National Organizations are Guided by Personal Agendas Robert S. Van Howe, MD, MS, FAAP Analysing Risk in Medicine and Surgery: A Traditional Jewish Perspective MB Sayers, BMedSC (Cardiovascular Science) The Position of the Family of Palliative Care Patients Within the Decision-Making Process at the End of Life in Singapore Lalit Krishna, MA (Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care) Book Reviews Christian Bioethics: A Guide for the Perplexed Agneta Sutton. London, UK: T&T Clark/Continuum Books, 2008. ISBN 0-567-03196-9; 180 PAGES, PAPER, $24.95. Reviewed by Evan C. Rosa, BA, who lives with his wife in Fullerton, CA USA while he is pursuing a MA in religion and ethics at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He also is the Communications Director for The Center for […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 27:2 Summer 2011

Download PDF : E&M 27.2 EDITORIAL How Would You Like to Die? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Remembering Dignity Christopher Bechtel CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Adolescent Confidentiality: An Uneasy Truce Mary B. Adam, MD, PhD, FAAP GREY MATTERS The Origami Brain: From Neural Folds to Neuroethics William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Is Free Will an Illusion? John R. Meyer, MS, LTD, STD Would Treatment Allocation According to Age-Contigent Deprecation Be Ethical? A Dialysis and Transplantation Paradigm Gregory W. Rutecki, MD The Ethics of Ovarian Tissue Transplantation: A Teleological Perspective Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews Pharmacogenetics 2nd edition Wendell W. Weber. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-534151-5; 433 PAGES, CLOTH, $79.50 Reviewed by Jacob William Shatzer, MDiv, who is currently pursuing a PhD in theological ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases Lewis Vaughn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-518282-8; 686 PAGES, PAPER, $84.95 Reviewed by Stephen A. Phillips, MD, MA (Bioethics), who has practiced Family Medicine for twenty-nine years and is currently teaching Medical Ethics and helping to develop a Center for Christian Ethics at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, USA. This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics Brent Waters. […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 27:1 Spring 2011

Download PDF : E&M 27.1 EDITORIAL Human Dignity and Biomedicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Turning a Blind Eye: An Ethical Assessment William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Capitulation to a Patient’s Demands Robert E. Cranston MD, MA (ethics), FAAN, CPE The Practice of Telemedicine: Medico-Legal and Ethical Issues Fatimah Lateef, MBBS FRCS Is Ageing Bad for Us? Michael Hauskeller, MA, PhD Forced Sterilization of Native Americans: Later Twentieth Century Cooperation with National Eugenic Policies? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Teleology, Embryonic Personhood, and Stem Cell Research Tim Mosteller, PhD Genes, Jobs, and Justice: Occupational Medicine Physicians and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Genetic Testing in the Workplace Sherry I Brandt-Rauf, JD, MPHIL, Elka Brandt-Rauf, MPH, Robyn Gershon, DRPH, BSPH, Youngliang Li, MD, MPH, and Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, DRPH, MD, SCD Book Reviews The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories Thomas B. Fowler and Daniel Kuebler. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007. ISBN 0-8010-3174-5; 384 PAGES, PAPER, $28.00 Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Betcher, MD, FRCPC, MA (Ethics), who practices anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Regina Qu’ÄôAppelle Health Region in Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of […]