Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 21:2 Summer 2005

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"The laudable goal of treating human disease and relieving human suffering must not be allowed to become a tool for exercising 'quality control' over our offspring. To do so would be to use the good gift of genetic knowledge for evil ends. Only vigilance on the part of all of us can prevent a bleak genetic future."

C. Ben Mitchell, PhD from the Editorial

Editorial The Return of Eugenics C. Ben Mitchell, Ph. D.

Guest Commentary When Does Human Life Begin? Patrick Yeung, Jr., MD

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

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas Edited by Robert Orr, MD with Robert Cranston, MD and Daniel Beals, MD.

Applying Theological Developments to Bioethical Issues Such as Genetic Screening Pierre Mallia Henk ten Have

Euthanasia Versus Letting Die: Christian Decision-Making in Terminal Patients Dennis Sullivan, MD

Book Reviews Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics - Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Editors Stephen N. Williams

Biotechnology Update 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