Ethics & Medicine

Ethics & Medicine Volume 23:2 Summer 2007

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"The end of life is the time when the patient can come to closure with this life and bring completion to relationships, reconciliation with problems of the past, and a feeling of spiritual peace‰Ý. One tragedy is that medicine, by continuously offering one more treatment to deny or delay death, can prevent these very things from happening. On the other hand, preparing for death is not incompatible with aggressive medical care. It requires that even while we hope for life we must prepare for a good death."

John Dunlop, MD from Guest Commentary

End of Life Issue

GUEST COMMENTARY A Good Death John Dunlop, M.D.

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas: End of Life Issues Permissibility to Accept Refusal of Potentially Life-Saving Treatment Greg Rutecki, M.D.

Themed Article: End of Life Issues Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: There is an Alternative Sylvia Dianne Ledger, MA, RN, FETC

Themed Article: End of Life Issues Zeno, Job and Terry Schiavo: The Right to Die Versus the Right to Live Kalman J. Kaplan, Ph.D.

Themed Article: End of Life Issues Cerebral Neuropsychology, 'Libetian' Action, and Euthanasia A. A. Howsepian, MD, Ph.D.

Themed Article: End of Life Issues Legal and Ethical Issues Associated with Brain Death Archimandrite Makarios Griniezakis, MA, MDiv, STM, MSc, Ph.D.

GREY MATTERS Glimpsing the Grey Marble William P. Cheshire, Jr., M.D.

Book Reviews The Ethical Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue By W. W. Meissner, Albany, N.Y.: State University of new York Press, 2003 ISBN 0-7914-5690-0: 371 pages, Paperback $29.95 Reviewed by James A. Tahmisian, PhD (Clinical Psychology)

Why Animal Experimentation Matters: the Use of Animals in Medical Research By Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul, Editors, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK); Transaction Publishers, 2001 ISBN 0-7658-0685-1; 224 pages, Paperback, $14.95/£18095 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA(Bioethics), FACOG

Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide By Paul B. Hofmann and William A. Nelson, Editors. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2001 ISBN 1-56793-149-9, Paperback. $16.00 Reviewed by Ferdinand D. (Nick) Yates, Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)

Marriage, Health, and the Professions By John Wall, Don Browning, William J. Doherty, and Stephen Post, Editors. Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, UK: Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-4392-1: 327 pages, Paperback, $30.00 Reviewed by Paul E. Toms, BA, BD

Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation and the Market By Mark J. Cherry, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005 ISBN 1-58901-040-X: 258 pages, Hardcover, $26.95 Reviewed by Phyllis Clatterbuck, DMin, MRE, BS (Nursing)

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief By Francis S. Collins, New York: Free Press, 2006 ISBN: 0-7432-863-91; 294 pages, Paperback, $26.00 Reviewed by Dennis Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics)

"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