Download PDF : E&M 27.1 EDITORIAL Human Dignity and Biomedicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Turning a Blind Eye: An Ethical Assessment William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Capitulation to a Patient’s Demands Robert E. Cranston MD, MA (ethics), FAAN, CPE The Practice of Telemedicine: Medico-Legal and Ethical Issues Fatimah Lateef, MBBS FRCS Is Ageing Bad for Us? Michael Hauskeller, MA, PhD Forced Sterilization of Native Americans: Later Twentieth Century Cooperation with National Eugenic Policies? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Teleology, Embryonic Personhood, and Stem Cell Research Tim Mosteller, PhD Genes, Jobs, and Justice: Occupational Medicine Physicians and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Genetic Testing in the Workplace Sherry I Brandt-Rauf, JD, MPHIL, Elka Brandt-Rauf, MPH, Robyn Gershon, DRPH, BSPH, Youngliang Li, MD, MPH, and Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, DRPH, MD, SCD Book Reviews The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories Thomas B. Fowler and Daniel Read More

Download PDF : E&M 26.3 GUEST EDITORIAL Avarice and health Care Crisis Eugene F. Diamond, MD GREY MATTERS Doing No Harm to Hippocrates: Reality and Virtual Reality in Ethics Education William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS End-of-Life Care in the Long-Term Cancer Survivor Katelyn Braswell, Wilburn Bolton, MD, Grace Hundley, MD, and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Sacred Cells? A Reply to Peters, Lebacoqz, and Bennett Gary S. Elkins, PhD How Much Respect Do We Owe the Embryo? Limits to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dennis L. Sansom, PhD Does Pharmacologically-Altered Memory Change Personal Identity? Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness Nancy Berlinger. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8176-6; 156 PAGES, PAPER $25.00. Reviewed by Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN, who is an associate clinical professor (Neurology) at University of Illinois College of Medicine, a Read More

Download PDF : E&M 26.2 EDITORIAL The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Does Alien Hand Syndrome Refute Free Will? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Need to Know: Disclosure of Information to Pediatric Patients Wayne R Waz, MD On the Nature of Tube Feeding: Basic Care or Medical Treatment? Erik M Clary, MDiv, MA Dignity Never Been Photographed: Scientific Materialism, Enlightenment Liberalism, and Steven Pinker Francis J Beckwith, PhD Physician Autonomy Vs. Self-Regulation: You Can’t Have One Without the Other Amir A Khlig, PhD, Art K Mwachofi, PhD, Robert W Broyles, PhD Book Reviews Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise Holly Fernandez Lynch. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-262-12305-1; 376 PAGES, HARDCOVER $34.00. Reviewed by Sharon F. Billon, MA (Bioethics), MD, FAAD who is retired from the private practice of dermatology in Arroyo Grande, California, USA. Read More

Download PDF : E&M 26.1 EDITORIAL Killing Euthanasia C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Just Enhancement William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS To Dialyze or not to Dialyze Gregory W. Rutecki, MD, Robert D. Orr, MD On Clinical Errors in Geriatric medical Diagnosis: Ethical Issues and Policy Implications E.M. Inelmen, G. Sergi, G. Enzi, I.D. Toffanello, A. Coin, E. Manzato, E. Inelmen An Ethical Analysis of Professional Codes in Health and Medical Care Vanessa Littleton, Natthani Meemon, Gerald-Mark Breen, Binyam Seblega, Seung Chun Paek, Michael Loyal, Nancy Ellis, Thomas T.H. Wan Book Reviews Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics Approach Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8018-8526-4; 155 PAGES, HARDCOVER $35.00. Reviewed by Jacob William Shatzer, MDiv, who serves on the staff of the Kairos Journal and lives in Louisville, KY. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Read More

Download PDF : E&M 25.3 EDITORIAL On Human Bioenhancements C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Think It’s Greed? It Might Be PDMD: Public Service Announcement Marc E. Keller and Bert M. Bieler, MD GREY MATTERS Facebook and Fusiform Gyrus William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Continuing “Futile” Support at Relative’s Insistence Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Tracking Chromosomes, Castrating Dwarves: Uninformed Consent and Eugenic Research Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD The Future of the Human Species Brent Waters, DPhil “Give Me Children or I’ll Die!” Is it Time to Consider the Uterus as a Non-vital Organ Transplant? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Book Reviews Caring for Those in Crisis: Facing Ethical Dilemmas with Patients and Families Kenneth P. Mottram. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-58743-191-3; 160 PAGES, PAPERER, $17.99 Reviewed by Patrick T. Smith, MDiv, MA (philosophy), PhD (candidate in philosophy), who is an Assistant Professor of Read More

Download PDF : E&M 25.2 GUEST COMMENTARY Pulling the Sheet Back Down: A Response to Battin on the Practice of Terminal Sedation Patrick T. Smith, MDiv. MA, PhD(cand.), and James S. Boal, MD GREY MATTERS Accelerated Thought in the Fast Lane William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS On the Permissibility of a DNR Order for the Patient with Dismal Prognosis Ryan R. Nash, MD Revitalizing Medicine: Empowering Natality vs. Fearing Mortality Brent Waters, DPhil Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Matthew Flannagan, PhD A Virtue-Ethical Approach towards applying Principilism Jeffrey W. Bulger, PhD Book Reviews The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Chicago and London: The Bioethics Press, 2001 ISBN 0-9711599-0-4; 187 pages, paper $21.95 Reviewed by Agnetta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London, Read More

Download PDF : E&M 25.1 EDITORIAL The Indignity of “Death with Dignity” C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Pleasing Desires or Pleasing Wishes? A New Approach to Health Definition Carlo V. Bellieni, MD and Giuseppe Buonocroe, MD GREY MATTERS Till We have Minds William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissible to forgo Emergent Restorative Surgery in This Case? Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA(Ethics) and Susan A. Salladay, RN, PhD Anti-Aging, Rights, and Human Nature Thomas D. Kennedy, PhD On Referring A. A. Howsepian, PhD Ethical Dilemmas in Triage: A Perspective from the Jewish Philosophical Tradition D. M. S. Bodansky, BMedSc (Neuroscience) Book Reviews Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (second edition) Robert M. Veatch and Amy Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2008 I S B N 9 7 8 – 0 – 1 9 – 5 3 0 8 1 2 – 9; 336 PAGES, PAPER, $29.95 Reviewed Read More

Download PDF : E&M 24.3 EDITORIAL Healthcare and the Common Good C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY How Much Brain Do I Need to Be Human? Scott B. Rae, PhD GREY MATTERS The Synapse and Other Gaps William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Rights and Responsibilities of Pregnant Women Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG Complicity and Stem Cell Research: Countering the Utilitarian Argument Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics) and Aaron Costerisan, MA (Ethics) An Ethical Analysis of the Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics), FACOOG Zenoism, Depress ion and Attitudes Toward Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Moderating Effects of Religiousity and Gender K. J. Kaplan, PhD, et al Book Reviews Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology Roger E. Olson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007. ISBN 0 – 8 010 -316 9 – 9; 247 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $19.99 Read More

Download PDF : E&M 24.2 EDITORIAL Ethics or Metaphysics? David C. Carmer, MD GUEST COMMENTARY Reading Brain Scans for Intention Identification: A Tale of Two Anthropologies Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD GREY MATTERS From Biochemical Synapse to Bioethical Syntax William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissible to Forgo Life-Saving Dialysis? Robert Cranton, MD, MA Ethics in the Emergency Department Fatimah Lateef, MBBS, FRCS (A&E) (EDin), FAMS (EmMed) Dispensing with Conscience: A History of Difference Jerome Wernow, PhD The Necessity of Spiritual Care Towards the End of Life Syed Qamar Abbas, MD, PGD (Medical Ethics) and Sibtain Panjwani, BDS, MA, PhD Book Reviews A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God and Medicine Ian Dowbiggin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefeld Publishers, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0742531116; 176 PAGES, PAPER $19.95 Reviewed by Stephen N. Williams, PhD, who has lectured and written on issues in medical ethics, including euthanasia, Read More

Download PDF : E&M 24.1 Editorial Genetically Enhancing Athletes? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY How do Doctors Become Killers? Ronald Pies, MD GREY MATTERS In the Twilight of Aging, A Twinkle of Hope William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissable to Shut Off the Pacemaker? Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD, MA and Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Uses of Biblical, Theological, and Religious Rhetoric by Cloning Advocates: A Critique Dennis L. Durst, MDiv, PhD Differences Between Behaviours of Female Patients From Poland and Belarussia After Natural Miscarriage and Induced Abortion Magdalena Szymanska, MD, PhD and Bogdan Chazan, MD, PhD Contemporary Medicine: Applied Human Science or Technological Enterprise? Sylvie Fortin, PhD, Fernando Alvarez, MD, Gilles Bibeau, PhD, and Danielle Laudy, PhD Finding Ethically Acceptable Solutions for Therapeutic Human Stem Cell Research John R. Meyer, MS, DDS, STD Book Reviews Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life Read More