Ethics & Medicine : Volume 30:3 Fall 2014

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EDITORIAL                                                                                                                                                                                        E&M 30-3
Human Dignity: A First Principle
C. Ben Mitchell, PhD

GREY MATTERS
Can Electronic Medical Records Make Physicians More Ethical?
William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
ISBN  9780262018487 ; 232 PAGES, CLOTH, $29
Reviewed by D. Joy Riley, MD, MA(Bioethics)

Changing Signs of Truth : A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication
Crystal L. Downing. Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academics, 2012.
ISBN 978-0-8308-3966-7, 295 PAGES; PAPER, $24
Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA(Bioethics), FACOG

Incarnational Humanism : A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World”
Jens Zimmerman. Downer’s Grove, IL : IVP Academic, 2012.
ISBN 978-0-8308-3903-2; 325 PAGES, PAPER, $30
Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA(Bioethics), FACOG

Flourishing : Health, Disease, and Bioethics in Theological Perspective
Neil Messer. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
ISBN  978-0-8028-6899-2; PAPER, $37.99
Reviewed by Stephen N. Williams, MA, PhD

God and Gadgets : Following Jesus in a Technological Age
Brad J. Kallenburg. Eugene, OR : Cascade, 2011.
ISBN: 978-1-60899-399-4; 172 PAGES, PAPER. $22
Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer, PhD

The Anticipatory Corpse : Medicine, Power, and the Care of Dying
Jeffrey P. Bishop, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-268-0227-3; 411 PAGES, PAPER. $35
Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer, PhD

Health, Healing and the Church’s Mission : Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities
Willard M. Swartley, Downer’s Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, 2012.
ISBN 978-83058-3974-2; 268 PAGES, PAPER, $24
Reviewed by Thor Swanson, MD, MDiv, ThM, MA (Bioethics)

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