Download PDF : E&M 31.2                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL Why Doctors Must not Be Complicit in Killing Their Patients C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST EDITORIAL Is the Technological Imperative Imperative? Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD GREY MATTERS Beyond Humanity: Theological and Biotechnological Perspectives on Enhancement in Dialogue William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Theology and Technology: Mapping the Questions Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD Autonomy vs. Selflessness at the End of Life Hannah B. Martin, BA; Daryl F. Sas, PhD Book Reviews Renaissance, the Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times Os Guinness. Downers Grove, IL; IVP Books, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8308-3671-0 (ELECTRONIC: 978-0-8308-9657-4), 187 PAGES, PAPER, $11.99 Reviewed by Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN, who is an associate clinical professor (Neurology) at University of Illinois College of Medicine, a hospital ethicist at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana-Champaign, and is medical director for medical subspecialties at Carole Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing Is Normal (Public Health Ethics Analysis, Vol. 2) Donal P. O’Mathuna, Bert Bordijn, and Mike Clarke (Eds). Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-9400738638, 219 pages, cloth, $99.64. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has taught bioethics at the University of Texas Health […]

Download PDF : E&M 31.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                            EDITORIAL Dying Well C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY A Traditionalist Protestant Response to Roman Catholic Rules about the Induction of Unborn Anencephalic Babies Thor Swanson, MDiv, ThM, MA GREY MATTERS Multitasking and the Neuroethics of Distraction William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Choosing Birth or Death – Before Birth Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Euthanasia and the Experience of the Yoruba People of Nigeria Aborisade Olasunkanmi The Sociocultural and Ethical Issues Behind the Decision for Artificial Hydration in a Young Palliative Patient with Recurrent […]

Download PDF: E&M 30:3      EDITORIAL                                                                                                                                                                                        Human Dignity : A First Principle C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Can Electronic Medical Records Make Physicians More Ethical? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Medicine and the Pressure of the Marketplace : Ethical Issues Involved in Medical Research and Practice Dennis Sansom, PhD The Moral Philosophical Challenges Posed by Fully Implantable Permanent Pacemakers Paul Walker, MBBS, FRACS, FACS; Terence Lovat, BTh, BLitt, BEd, MA, ThM, PhD; James W. Leitch, MBBS, FRACP; Peter Saul, MA, MB, MChir, MRCP, FRCA, FANZCA, FCICM Global Bioethics and Respect for Tradition: A Response to Ruth Macklin Gregory L. Bock, PhD BOOK REVIEWS In  Search of the Good : A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2012. ISBN  9780262018487 ; 232 PAGES, CLOTH, $29.00/ £19.95 Reviewed by D. Joy Riley, MD, MA(Bioethics) who serves as the Executive Director of the Tennessee Center of Bioethics and Culture in Brentwood, TN, USA. Changing Signs of Truth : A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication Crystal L. Downing. Downer’s Grove, ILL: InterVarsity Press Academics, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8308-3966-7, 295 PAGES; PAPER, $24 Incarnational Humanism : A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the WorldJens Zimmerman. Downer’s Grove, […]

Download PDF: E&M 30:2                                                                                                  EDITORIAL Shouldn’t Children Want Parents of Their Own? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Dignifying Intellectual Disability William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Freedom for Life : Karl Barth, Transhumanism and Human Flourishing Jonathan M. Cahill The Development of Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research : Serendipity or Eulogy Bhumika Aggarwal, MBBS, DTCD, MBA, MPM & Mayank Gurnani, MBBS, MBA Readability of Research Consent Forms in a Military Treatment Facility Cristobal S. Berry-Cabin, PHD, Cheri L.Portee, BSN, Lindsey A. Beaman, BSCR, Kyle L. Hoedebecke, MD BOOK REVIEWS Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford, UP, 2011. ISBN:  987-0-19-958-781-0; 286 PAGES, CLOTH, $35.00. Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford UP, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979787-5; 208 PAGES, CLOTH, $21.95. Development of Bioethics in the United States (Philosophy and Medicine Vol. 115)  Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand, and D. Christopher Ralston (Eds.). NY: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5; 279 PAGES, CLOTH. $129.00 The above three books have been reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has taught bioethics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX and at […]

Download PDF : E&M 30.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL The Human Commodity Nightmare C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Miniature Human Brains: An Ethical Analysis William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Compromising the Ethicist Anonymous Ethical Issues Raised by Compassionate Access to Experimental Therapies James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSC (bioethics), PhD A Lutheran Defense of the HPV Vaccine Thor Swanson, MD Playing God: Medical Ethics and Biblical Justice Matthew S. Kerlin, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspective from Philosophy, Ethics and Neuroscience Debra J.H. Matthews, Hilary Bok, and […]

Download PDF : E&M29.3 EDITORIAL Medicine and the Care of Strangers C. Ben Mitchell, PhD   GREY MATTERS Neurologic Pain Signatures and Neuroethical Calligraphy William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Health Care System Bites Back William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   Will You Be a Provider or a Professional? Robert D. Orr, MD, CM   Whose Dignity? Reflections on a Deceptively Difficult Term in Bioethical Debates Todd T.W. Daly, PhD   Beyond Genetic Determinism David W. Chapman, PhD   Biotechnologies and Human Nature: What We Should Not Change in Who We Are Dennis Hollinger, PhD   Book Reviews The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying Jeffrey P. Bishop, Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. ISBN 0-268-02227-5: 411 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $35.00 Reviewed by Todd T.W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics). Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and the fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. He serves on the Ethics Committee at Carle Hospital in Champaign, IL, USA.    

Download PDF : E&M 29.2 EDITORIAL Medical Ethics and Moral Habitus C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Doctor’s Handwriting Gone Digital: An Ethical Assessment of Voice Recognition Technology in Medicine William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS A Physician’s Covenant Anonymous Commercialized Medicine Contra Christian-Hippocratism Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Codes of Ethics in Health Care: Virtue Versus Rules Dennis Sansom, PhD Narrative and a Christian Bioethics Hannah Wakefield   Book Reviews The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection Harold Langsam, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011 ISSN 978-0-262-01585-1. 234 PAGES: CLOTH, $35.00 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), MDiv, FACOG, a consultative gynecologist at Hess memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA Thinking About Christian Apologetics: What It Is and Why We Do It James K. Beilby, Downers Grove: InterVarstity Press, 2011 ISBN 0-830-83945-3; 214 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $17.00 Reviewed by Todd T. W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics), Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and a scholar in the Paul Ramsey Institute. He also serves on the Ethics Committee at Carle Hospital in Champaign, IL, USA

Download PDF:E&M 29.1                                                                                                                                                                                       GUEST EDITORIAL FROM FOUNDING EDITOR Brave New World/People/Technology/Questions… Nigel Cameron, PhD  GREY MATTERS The Middle Word in Bioethics William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS How Should the Medical Team Respond to a Patient’s Requests? Jamie Caudill, MD, Gregory W. Rutecki, MD A Case Against Germ-Line Therapy Agneta Sutton, PhD Conscience and Competing Liberty Claims Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD, Edward A. Morse  Palliative Care Imperative: A Framework for Holistic and Inclusive Palliative Care Lalita Krishna   Book Reviews Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment Zowie Davy. Farmham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2011.                                                                                                               ISBN 978-1-4094-0565-8 ; 195 PAGES, CLOTH, £55 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MDiv, MA(Bioethics), FACOG, who is a consultative gynecologist at Hess memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA Bioethics and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco. Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0813218823 ; 327 PAGES, PAPER, $ 24.95 Reviewed by Thor Swanson, MD, MDiv, ThM, MA (Bioethics), who continues to practice family […]

Download PDF : E&M 28.3                                                                                                                                                                                        EDITORIAL Counting the Cost of Genetic Screening C. Ben Mitchell, PhD  GREY MATTERS Respecting the Absent Patient in Simulation Education William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Family That Develops Selective Hearing Christine C. Toevs, MD The Ethics of Creating Chimeras and Other Admixed Organisms David Albert Jones Irresponsible Reminders: Ethical Aspects of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising Christopher La Barbera, PhD  The Abortifacient Potential of Emergency Contraceptives Jeffrey Lewis, PhD and Dennis Sullivan, PhD   Book Reviews No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue Helen Stanton Chapple. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2010. ISBN 9 7 8 -15 9 8 74 4 0 2 6 ; 3 2 2 PAGES, PA PER, $ 3 2 . 9 5 Reviewed by Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD, who is Professor of Law at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer, Editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9 7 8 – 0 -19 – 5 3 3 514 – 9 ; 416 PAGES, C LOTH, $ 3 9 . 9 9 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), […]

Download PDF : E&M 28.2 EDITORIAL The Idea of the Modern Hospital C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS When Moral Arguments Do Not Compute: Prospects for an Ethics Checker William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMAS Experiencing Differences Between Europe and American End-of-Life Care: A Difficult Discontinuation of Life Support Diana Gilbert, MD, Franklin Trimm, MD, Gregory Rutecki, MD Are We Forming Ourselves for a Posthuman Future? Jacob Shatzer, MDiv Making Martyrs of Our Children: Religiously Based Requests in Pediatrics Gregory Bock, MA Medicine and Human Identity in Alexander Solzhenitysn’s Cancer Ward Dennis Sansom, PhD Human Germline Genetic Enhancement and C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man Stephen A. Phillips, MD   Book Reviews Nature’s End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics Richard Sherlock. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2010 (Religion and Contemporary Culture Series). ISBN 1 – 9 3 3 8 5 9 – 3 9 – 2 ; 2 3 0 PAGES, PA PER, $ 2 5 . 0 0 Reviewed by Donna Yarri, PhD (Religious Studies), who is an Associate Professor of Theology at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. Incapacity and Care: Controversies in Healthcare and Research Helen Watt, editor. Oxford: The Linacre Centre, 2010. […]