Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 21:1 Spring 2005

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"One of the lessons of history is that when it comes to protecting human beings - members of our species - special care must be taken and extraordinary caution must be exercised. Otherwise, the risk to some members of the moral community becomes a risk to all members of the human community."

C. Ben Mitchell, PhD from the Editorial

Editorial The Wisdom of Costa Rica C. Ben Mitchell, Ph. D.

Guest Commentary Pain Definitions Revised: Newborns Not Only Feel Pain, They Also Suffer Carlo Bellieni, MD

Immediate Animation: Thomistic Principles Applied to Norman Ford's Objections Fr. Juan R. Velez G., MD, Ph.D.

Can Artificial Techniques Supply Morally Neutral Human Embryos for Research? Nancy L. Jones, Ph.D. and William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD

Lebensunwertes Leben: The Devolution of Personhood in the Weimar and Pre-Weimar Era J. Daryl Charles, Ph.D.

Book Reviews My Sister's Keeper: A Novel- Jodi Picoult David B. Fletcher, Ph.D.

Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception - Sam and Bethany Torode Sarah J. Flashing

Biotechnology Update: News and Views Edited by Amy DeBaets

"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