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: IVP Academic, 2015. ISBN 978-0-838-2408-1. 281 PAGES, PAPER. $25.00. Reviewed by Todd T. W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics), The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo Calum MacKellar, Londond. SCM Press, 2017. ISBN 9780334 055211. 270 PAGES, PAPER. $56.00. Reviewed by Agneta Sutton, PhD
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Ethics & Medicine : Volume 34:1 Spring 2018
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, MD, MA The Opioid Epidemic, Deadly Sins, and the Soul Dennis L. Sansom, PhD The Ethical Landscape of Assisted Suicide: A Balanced Analysis Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA; Robert M. Taylor, MD BOOK REVIEWS Pursuing Moral Faithfulness: Ethics and Christian Discipleship Gary Tyra, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. ISBN […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 33:3 Fall 2017
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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
- BOOK REVIEWS
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 33:2 Summer 2017
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 in Designer Babies Daryl F. Sas, PhD ; Hannah Martin Lawrenz, BA Length and Format of Informed Consent Forms in Clinical Trails in Different Patent Populations (Pediatric, Adult, Elderly) Base on Samples from Poland Agata Bloswick, MSc; Dr. Hab. Agnieszka Skowron Three End-of-Life Cases; Resolving Their Moral Dilemmas Renee Mirkes, […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 33:1 Spring 2017
Download PDF : E&M 33:1 EDITORIAL Dignity’s Danger Jacob Shatzer, PhD GREY MATTERS Loopthink: A Limitation of Medical Artificial Intelligence William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Double Effect Reasoning: Why We Need It Helen Watt, PhD Autonomy in Applied Medical Ethics Joseph Freer, MBBS, BSc, DTMH, CiLT The Relationship of Gametes to Those Who Procreate and Its Impact on Artificially Generated Gamete Technologies Michal Pruski, BSc (Hons), AFHEA Embracing PVS 2.0 (The “Permanent? Vegetative? State”): Medical Research Beckons Ethicists Considering the Issue of ANH Withdrawal to Adopt a More Challenging Situational Narrative Erik M. Clary, PhD Are Parents Liable for Their Babies’ Prenatally Acquired Injuries? Carlo V. Bellieni, MD; Alberto M. Gambino, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics Ashley John Moyse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-53690-7. 263 PAGES, CLOTH. $100. (Reviewed by Jacob Schatzer, PhD) Potentiality : Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions John P. Lizza, Editor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1421411743, 288 PAGES, PAPER. $49.95. (Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA, MDiv, FACOG) Redeeming Sex : Naked Conversations about Sexuality and Spirituality Debra Hirsch. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8308-3639-0, 224 PAGES, PAPER. $17. (Reviewed by Michael […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 32:3 Fall 2016
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 ISBN 978-0-262-02912-4, 205 PAGES. CLOTH, $29.00 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA(bioethics), MDiv, FACOG, recently retired from consultative gynecology at Hess Memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA. Transplantation Ethics (Second Edition) Robert M. Veach and Lainie F. Ross. Washington, DC; Georgetown University Press, 2015. […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 32:2 Summer 2016
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 fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in nearby Deerfield, Illinois and has served as an inaugural fellow at the Paul Ramsey Institute. He currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, USA. Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy : a Sociomaterial Perspective Alexander Styhre and Rebecka […]
Ethics & Medicine : Volume 32:1 Spring 2016
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 BC Theology Partakers Group (providing academic support to the imprisoned) and Graduate Assistant in Medical Humanities at Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. God, Freedom, and Human Dignity : Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered CultureRon Highfield, Downers Grove : IVP Academic Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8308-2711-4 […]
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 […]