Ethics & Medicine : Volume 31:3 Fall 2015

Download PDF : E&M 31.3       EDITORIAL We’re All in This Together C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS The Sum of All Thoughts: Prospects of Uploading the Mind to a Computer William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD The Principle of Totality and the Limits of Enhancement Joshua W. Schulz, PhD Assisted Reproduction, the Logic of Liberalization, and Five Christian Responses Morten Magelssen, MD, PhD; Ole Jakob Filtvedt, PhD Ethics  Tensions Involved in Mandatory Immunization Programs: A Communitarian Response Dennis L. Sansom, PhD Book Reviews Patient Care and Professionalism Catherine D. DeAngelis, editor. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-992625-1. 219 PAGES, CLOTH, $45.00Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), MDiv, FACOG, recently retired from consultative gynecology at Hess Memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauson, Wisconsin, USA. An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking in the Way of Wisdom Robertson McQuilken and Paul Copan, Downers Grove, IL. InterVarsity Press Academic, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8308-2818-0. 667 PAGES. HARDCOVER, $45.00. Reviewed by Stephen N. Williams, MA, PhD, who serves in the Editorial Board of Ethics & Medicine and is a Professor at Systematic Theology at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The Therapeutic Cloning Debate: Global Science and Journalism in […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 31:2 Summer 2015

Download PDF : E&M 31.2                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL Why Doctors Must not Be Complicit in Killing Their Patients C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST EDITORIAL Is the Technological Imperative Imperative? Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD GREY MATTERS Beyond Humanity: Theological and Biotechnological Perspectives on Enhancement in Dialogue William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Theology and Technology: Mapping the Questions Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD Autonomy vs. Selflessness at the End of Life Hannah B. Martin, BA; Daryl F. Sas, PhD Book Reviews Renaissance, the Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times Os Guinness. Downers Grove, IL; IVP Books, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8308-3671-0 (ELECTRONIC: 978-0-8308-9657-4), 187 PAGES, PAPER, $11.99 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 Carole Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing Is Normal (Public Health Ethics Analysis, Vol. 2) Donal P. O’Mathuna, Bert Bordijn, and Mike Clarke (Eds). Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-9400738638, 219 pages, cloth, $99.64. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has taught bioethics at the University of Texas Health […]

Ethics & Medicine : Volume 31:1 Spring 2015

Download PDF : E&M 31.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                            EDITORIAL Dying Well C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY A Traditionalist Protestant Response to Roman Catholic Rules about the Induction of Unborn Anencephalic Babies Thor Swanson, MDiv, ThM, MA GREY MATTERS Multitasking and the Neuroethics of Distraction William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Choosing Birth or Death – Before Birth Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Euthanasia and the Experience of the Yoruba People of Nigeria Aborisade Olasunkanmi The Sociocultural and Ethical Issues Behind the Decision for Artificial Hydration in a Young Palliative Patient with Recurrent […]