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• “EDITORIAL: Medicine: Contract or Covenant?” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: The Dignity of Human Life: Sketching Out an “Equal Worth” Approach” by Helen Watt, PhD
• “POLICY ANALYSIS: “Complex Family Planning” and the Assault on Conscience” by Patrick Marmion, MD, MPH, FACPM
• “GREY MATTERS: Cerebral Organoids and the Threshold of Consciousness” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Deploy a DNA Directive” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

• “The Pain Principle: An Ethical Approach to End-of-Life Decisions” by Carlo V. Bellieni, MD
• “Clinical Science after Flexner’s 1910 Report on Medical Education: A Research Ethos Inhabited by Racial Prejudice, Colonial Attitudes, and Eugenic Theory” by Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
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• “EDITORIAL: When Self Determination Runs Amok” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Lifting the Impenetrable Veil: Ethical Implications of Neural Vision Decoding,” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: The Art of Informed Consent, ” by Jay Hollman, MD, MA, and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA
• “Professional Objections and Healthcare: More than a Case of Conscience,” by Michael Pruski, PhD, MA, AFHEA, MRSB
• “Social Freezing: Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma,” by Justo Aznar, MD, PhD, and Julio Tudela Cuenca, Pharm, PhD
• “Addiction as Degradation of Life,” by Ondřej Beran, PhD
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• “EDITORIAL: The Promise of Palliation” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Machine Intelligence as Interpreter: Ethical Implications of Neural Speech Decoding” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Surgery in Those Who Cannot Give Consent ” by Jay Hollman, MD, MA, and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Robots, Jobs, and Leisure: Being Human in the Face of Technological Disruption” by Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Synthetic Human Entities with Embryo-Like Features (SHEEFs) and the Incarnation” by Todd Daly, PhD
• “Heart Poisoning: Medicine Unlike Any Other” by Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, MA(Hon), MD(Hon)
• “Healthcare, Religious Obligations, and Caring for the Poor” by Dennis L. Sansom, PhD
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• “EDITORIAL: Sound and Fury” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Æquanimitas Perfecta” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: A Pharmacist’s Dilemma” by Jessica A. Ward; Douglas C. Anderson, PharmD; Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA;  Ferdinand D. Yates., MD, MA
• “The Case for Marijuana Prohibition” by Timothy Hsiao, MA
• “An Exploration of How Ethics Informs Health Care Practice” by Michael Concannon, PhD; Warren Gillibrand, PhD; Pat Jones, MS
• “Will Shorter Informed Consent forms with Visual Aids Improve Understanding of the Document in Adult and Elderly Populations of Clinical Trials?” by Agata Bloswick, MSC and Hab. Agnieszka Skowron
• “The Current State of Medical Error in South Korea” by James Yeongiun Park, MS
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• “EDITORIAL: Gross Anatomy and the Gift of the Body” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Ethical Implications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Personal Identity” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Decisional Capacity and Suspected Self-Neglect in a Geriatric Patient” by Joshua D. Niforatos, MTS; Gregory W. Rutecki, MD; Ferdinand D. Yates., MD, MA (Bioethics)
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: American Psychiatry’s Retreat from Reality” by A. A. Howsepian, MD, PhD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Human Head Transplants: Why It’s Time for a Serious Debate” by Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD
• “Experiencing Transplantation through Narrative: Richard Selzer and ‘Whither Thou Goest'” by Catherine Fleisher, MD and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
• “Technology and Grieving: A Relationship” by Grace E. McNair, BA and James R. Nichols, PhD

Download PDF : E&M 34:2 EDITORIAL Person-to-Person Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Ethical Implications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Personal Identity William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Our Sister’s Keeper? Helen O. Williams, MD; F.D. Yates, Jr., MD, MA(Bioethics) PRIME : Partnerships in International Medical Education: An Oral History of the Development of an International Network in Whole Person Medicine and Whole Person Teaching Sharon A. “Shari” Falkenheimer, MD, MA (Bioethics), MPH PhD Can Euthanasia be Classified as a Medically Beneficial Treatment? Nathan Gamble, MA The Dilemma of Prenatal Screening Megan Best, MD, PhD, MAAE   BOOK REVIEWS Reconsidering Intellectual Disability : L’Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship Jason Reimer Greig, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015. ISBN  978-1828182433; 304 PAGES, PAPER. $32.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Betcher, MD, FRCPC, MA(Bioethics) Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace Daniel A. Westberg, Downers Grove:  Read More

Download PDF : E&M 34:1                                                                                                                                                            EDITORIAL Conscience and Healthcare Professionals C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS If Mosquitoes Were to Disappear from the World William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA When a Surrogate Refuses Life Sustaining Treatment Cheyn Onarecker, MD, MA; F.D. Yates, Jr., MD, MA A Limited Image?: Practitioners, Patients, and Playing God Jacob Shatzer, PhD Life Postulates: Euclid, Mathematical Perfection and Teaching Ethics to Adult Students Richard Sams II, Read More

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• “EDITORIAL: Ectogenesis and the Future of Procreation,” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GRAY MATTERS: The Moral Significance of Pain for Synthetic Human Entities Derived from Embryo-Like Cell” by William P. Cheshire, Jr. MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Telling the Truth in Therapeutic Encounters” by Joshua D. Niforatos, MTS; Gregory W. Rutecki, MD; F.D. Yates, Jr.,  MD
• “Patient Medical Consent from an Islamic Perspective” by Taghreed Ayyad,  LLB.; Ammar Al-Kashimiri, MD, FRCPC, FACEP; Sina Muscati, BGSc, LLM, LLB
• “Slathered, Zapped, Nipped, and Tucked:  An Ethical Analysis of Cosmetic Dermatology” by Barbara, J. Lowe, PhD
• “The Trinitarian Nature of Biblical Bioethics: A Theological Corrective to Frame’s Philosophical Paradigm” by Daniel Heimbach, PhD
• “The Higher-Brain Concept of Death: A Christian Theological Appraisal” by Allen H. Roberts, II, MD, MDiv
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Download PDF : E&M 33:2                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL The Ends of Moral Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Telemedicine and the Ethics of Medical Care at a Distance William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS When Parents Disagree Helen O. Williams, MD CRISPR – Cas9 : The Latest Fashion Read More

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