Ethics & Medicine

Current Issue : Volume 26:1 Spring 2010

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"The purpose of values in healthcare is not to address dilemmas in conflicting ethical situations. Rather, the primary purpose of values is to serve as a basis to grasp an understanding of the conflicting situations. Conflict can arise between healthcare providers, patients, family members, and related others. Oftentimes, these conflicts are not between what is ethically right or wrong, or between what is ethically good or bad. The conflicts are usually, according to Terry (1993), between competing ethically good or right values."

from "An Ethical Analysis of Professional Codes in Health and Medical Care"

EDITORIAL Killing Euthanasia C. Ben Mitchell, PhD

GREY MATTERS Just Enhancement William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD

CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS To Dialyze or not to Dialyze Gregory W. Rutecki, MD, Robert D. Orr, MD

On Clinical Errors in Geriatric medical Diagnosis: Ethical Issues and Policy Implications E.M. Inelmen, G. Sergi, G. Enzi, I.D. Toffanello, A. Coin, E. Manzato, E. Inelmen

An Ethical Analysis of Professional Codes in Health and Medical Care Vanessa Littleton, Natthani Meemon, Gerald-Mark Breen, Binyam Seblega, Seung Chun Paek, Michael Loyal, Nancy Ellis, Thomas T.H. Wan

Book Reviews Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics Approach Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8018-8526-4; 155 PAGES, HARDCOVER $35.00. Reviewed by Jacob William Shatzer, MDiv, who serves on the staff of the Kairos Journal and lives in Louisville, KY.

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Permanently Unconscious Patient Ronald P. Hamel and James J. Walter, Editors. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1589011786; 294 PAGES, PAPER, $29.95. Reviewed by Agneta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College at the University of London, both in the UK.

Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics David F. Kelly. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. ISBN: 1-58901-030-2. 336 PAGES, PAPER, $32.50. Reviewed by Agneta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College at the University of London, both in the UK.

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. New York: Doubleday, 2008. ISBN: 978-0385522823; 256 PAGES, HARDCOVER, $23.95. Reviewed by Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics), Professor of Biology at Cedarville University and Director of the University’Äôs Center for Bioethics.

Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America Susan E. Lederer. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-19-516150-2; 234 PAGES, HARDCOVER, $35.00. Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG, who is a consultative gynecologist at Hess Memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA

"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