Download PDF: E&M 30:3      EDITORIAL                                                                                                                                                                                        Human Dignity : A First Principle C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Can Electronic Medical Records Make Physicians More Ethical? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Medicine and the Pressure of the Marketplace : Ethical Issues Involved in Medical Research and Practice Dennis Sansom, PhD The Moral Philosophical Challenges Posed by Fully Implantable Permanent Pacemakers Paul Walker, MBBS, FRACS, FACS; Terence Lovat, BTh, BLitt, BEd, MA, ThM, PhD; James W. Leitch, MBBS, FRACP; Peter Saul, MA, MB, MChir, MRCP, FRCA, FANZCA, FCICM Global Bioethics and Respect for Tradition: A Response to Ruth Macklin Gregory L. Bock, PhD BOOK REVIEWS In  Search of the Good : A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2012. ISBN  9780262018487 ; 232 PAGES, CLOTH, $29.00/ £19.95 Reviewed by D. Joy Riley, MD, MA(Bioethics) who serves as the Executive Director of the Tennessee Center of Bioethics and Culture in Brentwood, TN, USA. Changing Signs of Truth : A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication Crystal L. Downing. Downer’s Grove, ILL: InterVarsity Press Academics, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8308-3966-7, 295 PAGES; PAPER, $24 Incarnational Humanism : A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the WorldJens Zimmerman. Downer’s Grove, […]

Download PDF: E&M 30:2                                                                                                  EDITORIAL Shouldn’t Children Want Parents of Their Own? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Dignifying Intellectual Disability William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Freedom for Life : Karl Barth, Transhumanism and Human Flourishing Jonathan M. Cahill The Development of Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research : Serendipity or Eulogy Bhumika Aggarwal, MBBS, DTCD, MBA, MPM & Mayank Gurnani, MBBS, MBA Readability of Research Consent Forms in a Military Treatment Facility Cristobal S. Berry-Cabin, PHD, Cheri L.Portee, BSN, Lindsey A. Beaman, BSCR, Kyle L. Hoedebecke, MD BOOK REVIEWS Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford, UP, 2011. ISBN:  987-0-19-958-781-0; 286 PAGES, CLOTH, $35.00. Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford UP, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979787-5; 208 PAGES, CLOTH, $21.95. Development of Bioethics in the United States (Philosophy and Medicine Vol. 115)  Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand, and D. Christopher Ralston (Eds.). NY: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5; 279 PAGES, CLOTH. $129.00 The above three books have been reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has taught bioethics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX and at […]

Download PDF : E&M 30.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL The Human Commodity Nightmare C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Miniature Human Brains: An Ethical Analysis William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Compromising the Ethicist Anonymous Ethical Issues Raised by Compassionate Access to Experimental Therapies James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSC (bioethics), PhD A Lutheran Defense of the HPV Vaccine Thor Swanson, MD Playing God: Medical Ethics and Biblical Justice Matthew S. Kerlin, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspective from Philosophy, Ethics and Neuroscience Debra J.H. Matthews, Hilary Bok, and […]