Ethics & Medicine: Volume 37:1 Spring 2021

Table of Contents

  • “EDITORIAL: A New Chapter for Ethics & Medicine Revisited” by Michael J. Sleasman, PhD [Open Access]
  • “GREY MATTERS: Ethics of the Extreme” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
  • “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Discontinue Life-Sustaining Treatment” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
  • ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • “Promise or Peril? Progressive Evangelicals, Technology, and Social Justice in the 1970s” by Jacob Shatzer, PhD
  • “Ethical Evaluation of New Biomedical Technologies Using Past Case Studies in Pharmaceutical Medicine” by Stephen Goundrey-Smith, PhD, MrPharmS, FFCI
  • “A Theology of Human Limitation and Medicine” by Cristina Richie, PhD
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 36:3 Fall 2020

Table of Contents

  • “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Proposed Surgery During an International Pandemic” by Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
  • “GREY MATTERS: Medicine Masked: Ethical Implications of Half-Hidden Faces During a Pandemic” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
  • “GUEST COMMENTARY: A Forgotten Crown of Glory: The Elderly and COVID-19” by Justin Chu, MA
  • ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • “Triage in a Pandemic: Equity, Utility, or Both?” by Paul Walker, MB BS, PhD
  • “Kindness and the Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicide” by Dennis L. Sansom, PhD
  • “Climate Change Related Health Hazards and the Academic Responsibility of Evangelical Bioethicists” by Cristina Richie, PhD [Open Access]
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 36:2 Summer 2020

Table of Contents

  • “EDITORIAL: A New Chapter for Ethics & Medicine” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD [Open Access]
  • “GREY MATTERS: The Ethics of Naming Epidemics” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
  • “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Discharge” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
  • ORIGINAL ARTICLES

  • “NaProTechnology : A Medical Embodiment of the Catholic Perspective on an Infertile Couple’s Right to Family Planning” by Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PHD
  • “Ethical Considerations for Offering Non-Invasive Prenatal Tests Within a Public Healthcare System: A Rule Utilitarian Perspective” by Jeffrey Yuk-Chiu Yip, RN(HK), MNSC, PGCERT and Zoe Wai-King Tsui, RN(HK), RM(HK), MSC (Healthcare), PGCERT(NICU), PRCC(PICU)
  • “Overlooked Costs of Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” by Arthur J. Dyck, PhD
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 36:1 Spring 2020

Table of Contents

  • “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
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 35:3 Fall 2019

  • Table of Contents
  • “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
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 35:2 Summer 2019

  • Table of Contents
  • “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
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 35:1 Spring 2019

  • Table of Contents
  • “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
  • BOOK REVIEWS

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 34:3 Fall 2018

Table of Contents

  • “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

Ethics & Medicine: Volume 34:2 Summer 2018

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

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, Read More