Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 22:1 Spring 2006

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"At the heart of many of the complex biotechnological developments that the President's Council and others grapple with is the question of what it means to be human. Is it some capacity or some combination of capacities that makes an individual uniquely human and therefore the possessor of dignity? Is it demonstrating autonomy, rational thought, self-awareness, freedom? Or is there something innate to human beings? Is human dignity about doing or being?"

Matthew Eppinette, MA, and Andrew Fergusson, MRCGP from Guest Commentary

Editorial Selecting Our Embryonic Children Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D.

Guest Commentary Human Dignity: Still Defying Devaluation Matthew Eppinette, M.A. and Andrew Fergusson M.R.C.G.P.

The Moral Status of the Embryonic Human: Religious Perspectives John Jefferson Davis, Ph.D.

Ethics Involved in Simulation-Based Medical Planning Anthony Tongen, Ph.D., and Mary Adam, M.D.

Normative Ethics in Health Care Jack Hanford, Th.D.

Supporting Organ Transplantation in Non-Resident Aliens Within Limits Katrina A. Bramstedt, Ph.D.

Nature's End: The Theological meaning of the New Genetics Richard Sherlock, Ph.D.

Book Reviews Biotechnology Update by Amy Michelle 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