Download PDF : E&M 32:3                                                                                                                                                                                                              EDITORIAL Are Doctors Human? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS The Robot Will See You Now: Can Medical Technology Be Professional? William P. Cheshire, Jr, MD What is the Role of the Church When a National Government Has Internal Healthcare Policies That Fail Its Own Citizens Nellie Wamaitha; Mary B. Adam, MD, MA, PhD Towards a Proportionist Approach to Moral Decision Making in Medicine Paul Walker, MBBS, PhD, FRACS, FACS; Terence Lovat, BTh, BLitt, BEd, MA, ThM, PhD The Difference between Moral Status and Moral Value Applied to the Ethical Evaluation of the Use of HiPS Cells Gloria Casanova, PhD; Lucia Gomez-Totay, MS; Justo Aznar, MD, PhD Human Enhancement, the Person, and Posthuman Personhood Grzegorz Holub, STM, PhD Book Reviews Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well Lydia Dugdale, MD, Editor, Cambridge, MA:  MIT Pres, 2015 Read More

Download PDF : E&M 32:2                                                                                                                                                                                                                     EDITORIAL The Patient as Person, the Diagnosis as Personal C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS The Elemental Ethicon William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Morality and Ethical Theories in the Context of Human Behavior Irina Filip, MD; Neeta Saheba, MD; Bryan Wick, MD; Amir Radfar, MD, MPH, MSc A Metaphysical Definition of Death Margaret M. Sealey, MB, ChB, FFARCSI, MA, BA Virtue as Mediator : Informing Health Care Issues Through Virtue Ethics and Scripture Stephen Meawad, MT An Aristotlian -Thomistic Moral Analysis of Two Cases of Medical Induction for Previable Infants Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging Gilbert Meileander, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2013. ISBN  978-0-8028-6869-5.   121 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $18.00. Reviewed by Todd T.W. Daly, Phd(Theological Ethics), who is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary in Champaign, Illinois, USA, an associate Read More

Download PDF : E&M 32:1  EDITORIAL On the Role of Physicians and Goals of Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Ethical Assessment of Personal Health-Monitoring Technologies That Interface with the Autonomic Nervous System William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Respecting the Wishes of Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life Sim Shin Wei, MBBS; Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna, MBChB, MA, FRCP, FAMS, PhD Periviability : Translating Informed Assent and Non-Dissent to Obstetrics Tara A. Lynch, MD; Paul Burcher, MD, PhD Gender Dyspohoria and the Ethics of Transsexual (i.e., Gender Reassignment) Surgery Todd T.W. Daly, PhD Book Reviews The New Kinship : Constructing Donor-Conceived Families Naomi Cahn, New York and London : New York University Press, 2013 ISBN   9780814772034       256 PAGES. CLOTH. $35.00 Reviewed by Kate Jackson-Meyer, MA (Religion), who is currently a doctoral student and Flatley Fellow in theological ethics at Boston College, is co-coordinator of Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 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. Read More

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 ORIGINAL ARTICLES 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 University Press, 2011. ISBN:  987-0-19-958-781-0; 286 PAGES, CLOTH, $35.00. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics) Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979787-5; 208 PAGES, CLOTH, $21.95. Reviewed Read More

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 Read More

Download PDF : E&M29.3 EDITORIAL Medicine and the Care of Strangers C. Ben Mitchell, PhD   GREY MATTERS Neurologic Pain Signatures and Neuroethical Calligraphy William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Health Care System Bites Back William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   Will You Be a Provider or a Professional? Robert D. Orr, MD, CM   Whose Dignity? Reflections on a Deceptively Difficult Term in Bioethical Debates Todd T.W. Daly, PhD   Beyond Genetic Determinism David W. Chapman, PhD   Biotechnologies and Human Nature: What We Should Not Change in Who We Are Dennis Hollinger, PhD   Book Reviews The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying Jeffrey P. Bishop, Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. ISBN 0-268-02227-5: 411 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $35.00 Reviewed by Todd T.W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics). Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and the Read More