Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 22:3 Fall 2006

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"Therefore, women - especially poor women - should not be exploited for their 'reproductive capacities.' Neither should women be treated as egg farms. The rank commercialization of a woman's eggs objectifies women in the same way prostitution and pornography objectifies them. It treats them as 'human hens', not as persons. So, no matter how much someone is willing to pay for a woman's eggs for reproduction or research, the grotesque moral and social costs are too high to endorse it."

C. Ben Mitchell, PhD from the Editorial

Editorial Human Egg "Donation" C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D.

Grey Matters When Eloquence is Inarticulate William P. Cheshire, Jr., M.D.

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas Limitation of Treatment Decisions for Unwanted Neonate Susan Haack, M.D., M.A. (Bioethics), F.A.C.O.G.

Are Christian Voices Needed in Public Bioethics Debates?:
Care for Persons with Disabilities as a Test Case Jay Hollman, M.D. and John Kilner, Ph.D.

Must Physicians Always Act in Their Patients' Best Interests? A. A. Howsepian, M.D., Ph.D.

Newborn Screening: Toward a Just System Sister Renee Mirkes, O.S.F., Ph.D.

Women, Physicians, and Breastfeeding Advice: A Regional Analysis J. Stolzer, Ph.D. and Syed Afzal Hossain, Ph.D.

Book Review The Social Lives of Medicine By Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak Van der Geest, and Anita Hardon, 200 pages, $21.00, paperback ISBN 0-521-80469-8, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, M.D., M.A. (Bioethics), F.A.C.O.G.

"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