Ethics & Medicine: Volume 28:3 Fall 2012

Download PDF : E&M 28.3                                                                                                                                                                                        EDITORIAL Counting the Cost of Genetic Screening C. Ben Mitchell, PhD  GREY MATTERS Respecting the Absent Patient in Simulation Education William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Family That Develops Selective Hearing Christine C. Toevs, MD The Ethics of Creating Chimeras and Other Admixed Organisms David Albert Jones Irresponsible Reminders: Ethical Aspects of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising Christopher La Barbera, PhD  The Abortifacient Potential of Emergency Contraceptives Jeffrey Lewis, PhD and Dennis Sullivan, PhD   Book Reviews No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue Helen Stanton Chapple. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2010. ISBN 9 7 8 -15 9 8 74 4 0 2 6 ; 3 2 2 PAGES, PA PER, $ 3 2 . 9 5 Reviewed by Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD, who is Professor of Law at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer, Editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9 7 8 – 0 -19 – 5 3 3 514 – 9 ; 416 PAGES, C LOTH, $ 3 9 . 9 9 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 28:2 Summer 2012

Download PDF : E&M 28.2 EDITORIAL The Idea of the Modern Hospital C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS When Moral Arguments Do Not Compute: Prospects for an Ethics Checker William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMAS Experiencing Differences Between Europe and American End-of-Life Care: A Difficult Discontinuation of Life Support Diana Gilbert, MD, Franklin Trimm, MD, Gregory Rutecki, MD Are We Forming Ourselves for a Posthuman Future? Jacob Shatzer, MDiv Making Martyrs of Our Children: Religiously Based Requests in Pediatrics Gregory Bock, MA Medicine and Human Identity in Alexander Solzhenitysn’s Cancer Ward Dennis Sansom, PhD Human Germline Genetic Enhancement and C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man Stephen A. Phillips, MD   Book Reviews Nature’s End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics Richard Sherlock. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2010 (Religion and Contemporary Culture Series). ISBN 1 – 9 3 3 8 5 9 – 3 9 – 2 ; 2 3 0 PAGES, PA PER, $ 2 5 . 0 0 Reviewed by Donna Yarri, PhD (Religious Studies), who is an Associate Professor of Theology at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. Incapacity and Care: Controversies in Healthcare and Research Helen Watt, editor. Oxford: The Linacre Centre, 2010. […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 28:1 Spring 2012

  • Download PDF : E&M 28.1
  • “EDITORIAL: High-Fidelity Human Patient Simulation,” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
  • “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMAS: How Does the Doctor Decide Between Cost and Care?” by Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
  • “GREY MATTERS: Neural Signatures of Reason and Rhetoric,” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
  • “19 Effective Engagement in Global Bioethics: The Benefits of Questions,” by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MA (Bioethics), MPH, MD
  • “Ethics of Palliative Sedation and Medical Disasters: Four Traditions Advance Public Consensus on Three Issues,” by William Buckley, PhD, MA, Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, FACP,
    Aaron Mackler, PhD, MA, Aziz Sachedina, PhD, MA
  • BOOK REVIEWS