Table of Contents Download PDF: Coming Soon EDITORIAL Coming Soon COMMENTARY Coming Soon CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Aggressive Interventions for an Infant with Thantophoric Dysplasia Sara S. Manetta, MD, Peter D. Murray, MD, MSM, HEC-C, and Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr, MD, MA (Column Editor) ORIGINAL ARTICLES The Moral Status of the Embryo in the Ethical Debate over In Vitro Fertilization Dennis Sansom, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Coming Soon  

Table of Contents Download PDF: Coming Soon COMMENTARY Ten Critical Ethical, Conceptual, and Clinical Cautions Concerning the Diagnosis and Treatment of Gender Dysphoria and Transgender Identification A. A. Howsepian, MD, PhD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Personal Choices and Future Medical Need Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics) ORIGINAL ARTICLES Does the Use of Puberty-Suppressing Drugs Satisfy the Requirements of Informed Consent? J. Alan Branch, PhD Ethics and Empirical Knowledge: A Critical Ethical, Partially Detached Interpretation of Experiences of Relatives of Patients Who Received Euthanasia A. Stef Groenewoud, PhD, MSc, and Theo A. Boer, PhD Variance in Viewpoints: Protestant Perspectives on Birth Control and Assisted Reproduction Abigail Littrell, MA When I Am Vulnerable, Imitatio Dei? Nooshig Luz Salvador, MD, MA REVIEW ESSAY Review Essay: Odyssey into Post-Reality? Review of Chalmers’ Reality+ Stephen N. Williams, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World Gregg R. Allison, Baker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-54090-005-0, 270 Pages, Paperback, $19.99. (Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Betcher, MD, MA, FRCPC) [Open Access] A Bioethicist’s Dictionary William Eisenhower, Cascade Books, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-6667-0511-9, 211 Pages, Paperback, $30. (Reviewed by Justin Cole, RPh, PharmD) [Open Access] The Evening of Life: The Challenges of […]

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• “EDITORIAL: Bioethics by Definition” by Michael J. Sleasman, PhD [Open Access]
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Revisiting Physician-Assisted Suicide: Reaffirming the Christian Hippocratic Legacy” by Jacob Robert Morris, MD
• “GREY MATTERS: First Principles for Medical Artificial Intelligence” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS: A Clash of Medical Cultures” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS: Religious Decision-Making in a Teenager” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM; Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr. MD, MA (Bioethics)

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• “The Pandemic, Empathy Fatigue, and Ethical Motivations: Kant on Conscience and Scotus on Love” by Dennis Sansom, PhD
• “Human Flourishing and Contentment in a Biotechnological Context” by Stephen N. Williams, PhD
• “Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy, the Embryo, and Community” by Cynthia I. Nash, MD, MA (Bioethics)
• “On the Ethics of Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Kenyan Perspective” by Everlyne Nyaboke Ombati, MSc, MBE
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• “EDITORIAL: A New Chapter for Ethics & Medicine Revisited” by Michael J. Sleasman, PhD [Open Access]
• “GREY MATTERS: Ethics of the Extreme” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Discontinue Life-Sustaining Treatment” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)

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• “Promise or Peril? Progressive Evangelicals, Technology, and Social Justice in the 1970s” by Jacob Shatzer, PhD
• “Ethical Evaluation of New Biomedical Technologies Using Past Case Studies in Pharmaceutical Medicine” by Stephen Goundrey-Smith, PhD, MrPharmS, FFCI
• “A Theology of Human Limitation and Medicine” by Cristina Richie, PhD
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• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Proposed Surgery During an International Pandemic” by Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
• “GREY MATTERS: Medicine Masked: Ethical Implications of Half-Hidden Faces During a Pandemic” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: A Forgotten Crown of Glory: The Elderly and COVID-19” by Justin Chu, MA

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• “Triage in a Pandemic: Equity, Utility, or Both?” by Paul Walker, MB BS, PhD
• “Kindness and the Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicide” by Dennis L. Sansom, PhD
• “Climate Change Related Health Hazards and the Academic Responsibility of Evangelical Bioethicists” by Cristina Richie, PhD [Open Access]
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• “EDITORIAL: A New Chapter for Ethics & Medicine” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD [Open Access]
• “GREY MATTERS: The Ethics of Naming Epidemics” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Discharge” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)

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• “NaProTechnology : A Medical Embodiment of the Catholic Perspective on an Infertile Couple’s Right to Family Planning” by Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PHD
• “Ethical Considerations for Offering Non-Invasive Prenatal Tests Within a Public Healthcare System: A Rule Utilitarian Perspective” by Jeffrey Yuk-Chiu Yip, RN(HK), MNSC, PGCERT and Zoe Wai-King Tsui, RN(HK), RM(HK), MSC (Healthcare), PGCERT(NICU), PRCC(PICU)
• “Overlooked Costs of Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” by Arthur J. Dyck, PhD
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• “EDITORIAL: Medicine: Contract or Covenant?” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: The Dignity of Human Life: Sketching Out an “Equal Worth” Approach” by Helen Watt, PhD
• “POLICY ANALYSIS: “Complex Family Planning” and the Assault on Conscience” by Patrick Marmion, MD, MPH, FACPM
• “GREY MATTERS: Cerebral Organoids and the Threshold of Consciousness” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Daring to Deploy a DNA Directive” by Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)

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• “The Pain Principle: An Ethical Approach to End-of-Life Decisions” by Carlo V. Bellieni, MD
• “Clinical Science after Flexner’s 1910 Report on Medical Education: A Research Ethos Inhabited by Racial Prejudice, Colonial Attitudes, and Eugenic Theory” by Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
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• “EDITORIAL: When Self Determination Runs Amok” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Lifting the Impenetrable Veil: Ethical Implications of Neural Vision Decoding,” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: The Art of Informed Consent, ” by Jay Hollman, MD, MA, and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA
• “Professional Objections and Healthcare: More than a Case of Conscience,” by Michael Pruski, PhD, MA, AFHEA, MRSB
• “Social Freezing: Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma,” by Justo Aznar, MD, PhD, and Julio Tudela Cuenca, Pharm, PhD
• “Addiction as Degradation of Life,” by Ondřej Beran, PhD
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• “EDITORIAL: The Promise of Palliation” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Machine Intelligence as Interpreter: Ethical Implications of Neural Speech Decoding” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: Surgery in Those Who Cannot Give Consent ” by Jay Hollman, MD, MA, and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Robots, Jobs, and Leisure: Being Human in the Face of Technological Disruption” by Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD
• “GUEST COMMENTARY: Synthetic Human Entities with Embryo-Like Features (SHEEFs) and the Incarnation” by Todd Daly, PhD
• “Heart Poisoning: Medicine Unlike Any Other” by Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, MA(Hon), MD(Hon)
• “Healthcare, Religious Obligations, and Caring for the Poor” by Dennis L. Sansom, PhD
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• “EDITORIAL: Sound and Fury” by C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
• “GREY MATTERS: Æquanimitas Perfecta” by William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
• “CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA: A Pharmacist’s Dilemma” by Jessica A. Ward; Douglas C. Anderson, PharmD; Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA;  Ferdinand D. Yates., MD, MA
• “The Case for Marijuana Prohibition” by Timothy Hsiao, MA
• “An Exploration of How Ethics Informs Health Care Practice” by Michael Concannon, PhD; Warren Gillibrand, PhD; Pat Jones, MS
• “Will Shorter Informed Consent forms with Visual Aids Improve Understanding of the Document in Adult and Elderly Populations of Clinical Trials?” by Agata Bloswick, MSC and Hab. Agnieszka Skowron
• “The Current State of Medical Error in South Korea” by James Yeongiun Park, MS
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