Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 17:3 Fall 2001

Ethics & Medicine cover

"Americans should repudiate the commodification of human embryos. They are not crops to be harvested. They are not ¬„pharms¬¾ to be cultivated. After all, hard as it is to believe, you and I were once tiny human embryos. We too had a right not to be bought and sold at the "pharmers market?"

C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D. in the Editorial

Editorial Old MacDonald Had an Embryo Pharm, E, I, E, I, Oh? C. Ben Mitchell, Ph. D.

Guest Commentary To the Editor

Polygamy and Autonomy David B. Fletcher

A Theologian's Brief: On the Place of the Human Embryo Within the Christian Tradition and the Theological Principles for Evaluating Its Moral Status David Jones, et. al.

Taking Abortion Seriously: A Philosophical Critique of the New Anti-Abortion Rhetorical Shift Francis J. Beckwith

Prenatal DNR Orders and the Baby Doe Regulations: Case Review and Analysis Robert E. Cranston

A Thirty-Year Perspective on Personhood: How Has the Debate Changed? Dennis Sullivan

Book Reviews Without Moral Limits: Women, Reproduction, and Medical TechnologyDebra Evans J. Alan Branch

Regulation of the Healthcare ProfessionsTimothy S. Jost, Editor Jack T. Hanford

Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis of EthicsJ.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae Michael W. Austin

The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral PhilosophyJ. B. Schneewind David B. Fletcher

"For two decades, Ethics & Medicine has offered guidance to a perplexed world from the Judeo-Christian worldview and its Hippocratic medical vision."

Nigel Cameron, Founding Editor