Ethics & Medicine : Volume 30:2 Summer 2014

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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 by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics)

Development of Bioethics in the United States (Philosophy and Medicine Vol. 115) 
Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand, and D. Christopher Ralston (Eds.). NY: Springer, 2013.
ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5; 279 PAGES, CLOTH. $129.00
Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics)

The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus 
Allen Verhey, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0802866721; 423 PAGES; PAPER, $30.00.
Reviewed by Mathew A. Crawford, MA, ThM

Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace
Kenman L. Wong and Scott B. Rae. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-8308-2816-6, 288 PAGES, PAPER, $24.00.
Reviewed by Agneta Sutton, PhD

Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices About Children
Timothy E. Murphy, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
ISBN: 9-780262-018050; 181 PAGES, CLOTH, $27.00.
Reviewed by Donna Yarri, PhD (Religious Studies)

Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
(Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Series)

Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-226-92497-7, 307 PAGES, CLOTH, $30.00.
Reviewed by Donna Yarri, PhD (Religious Studies)

Standing on Principles: Collected Essays
Tom L. Beauchamp, New York: Oxford UP, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-1997-3718-5291: 291 PAGES, CLOTH $55.00.
Reviewed by David B. Fletcher, PhD

Against Moral Responsibility
Bruce N. Waller, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01659-9; 364 PAGES, CLOTH, $40.00
Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA, MDiv, FACOG

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