Download PDF : E&M 27.3 EDITORIAL Conflicts of Conscience Matter Because Medicine Matters C. Ben Mitchell CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS When Doctors Disagree Anonymous GREY MATTERS When Conscience Meddles with Ethics William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD In Defence of Selflessness: A Philoshopical Analysis of a Central Virtue in Professional Caring Practices Bart Cusveller, BNurs, PhD Phil Decisions, Moral Status, and the Early Fetus David Jensen, MA, PhD The American Academy of Pediatrics and Female Genital Cutting: When National Organizations are Guided by Personal Agendas Robert S. Van Howe, MD, MS, FAAP Analysing Risk in Medicine and Surgery: A Traditional Jewish Perspective MB Sayers, BMedSC (Cardiovascular Science) The Position of the Family of Palliative Care Patients Within the Decision-Making Process at the End of Life in Singapore Lalit Krishna, MA (Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care) Book Reviews Christian Bioethics: A Guide for the Perplexed Agneta Sutton. London, UK: T&T Clark/Continuum Books, 2008. ISBN 0-567-03196-9; 180 PAGES, PAPER, $24.95. Reviewed by Evan C. Rosa, BA, who lives with his wife in Fullerton, CA USA while he is pursuing a MA in religion and ethics at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He also is the Communications Director for The Center for […]

Download PDF : E&M 27.2 EDITORIAL How Would You Like to Die? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Remembering Dignity Christopher Bechtel CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Adolescent Confidentiality: An Uneasy Truce Mary B. Adam, MD, PhD, FAAP GREY MATTERS The Origami Brain: From Neural Folds to Neuroethics William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Is Free Will an Illusion? John R. Meyer, MS, LTD, STD Would Treatment Allocation According to Age-Contigent Deprecation Be Ethical? A Dialysis and Transplantation Paradigm Gregory W. Rutecki, MD The Ethics of Ovarian Tissue Transplantation: A Teleological Perspective Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews Pharmacogenetics 2nd edition Wendell W. Weber. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-534151-5; 433 PAGES, CLOTH, $79.50 Reviewed by Jacob William Shatzer, MDiv, who is currently pursuing a PhD in theological ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases Lewis Vaughn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-518282-8; 686 PAGES, PAPER, $84.95 Reviewed by Stephen A. Phillips, MD, MA (Bioethics), who has practiced Family Medicine for twenty-nine years and is currently teaching Medical Ethics and helping to develop a Center for Christian Ethics at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, USA. This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics Brent Waters. […]

Download PDF : E&M 27.1 EDITORIAL Human Dignity and Biomedicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Turning a Blind Eye: An Ethical Assessment William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Capitulation to a Patient’s Demands Robert E. Cranston MD, MA (ethics), FAAN, CPE The Practice of Telemedicine: Medico-Legal and Ethical Issues Fatimah Lateef, MBBS FRCS Is Ageing Bad for Us? Michael Hauskeller, MA, PhD Forced Sterilization of Native Americans: Later Twentieth Century Cooperation with National Eugenic Policies? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Teleology, Embryonic Personhood, and Stem Cell Research Tim Mosteller, PhD Genes, Jobs, and Justice: Occupational Medicine Physicians and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Genetic Testing in the Workplace Sherry I Brandt-Rauf, JD, MPHIL, Elka Brandt-Rauf, MPH, Robyn Gershon, DRPH, BSPH, Youngliang Li, MD, MPH, and Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, DRPH, MD, SCD Book Reviews The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories Thomas B. Fowler and Daniel Kuebler. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007. ISBN 0-8010-3174-5; 384 PAGES, PAPER, $28.00 Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Betcher, MD, FRCPC, MA (Ethics), who practices anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Regina Qu’ÄôAppelle Health Region in Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of […]

Download PDF : E&M 26.3 GUEST EDITORIAL Avarice and health Care Crisis Eugene F. Diamond, MD GREY MATTERS Doing No Harm to Hippocrates: Reality and Virtual Reality in Ethics Education William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS End-of-Life Care in the Long-Term Cancer Survivor Katelyn Braswell, Wilburn Bolton, MD, Grace Hundley, MD, and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Sacred Cells? A Reply to Peters, Lebacoqz, and Bennett Gary S. Elkins, PhD How Much Respect Do We Owe the Embryo? Limits to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dennis L. Sansom, PhD Does Pharmacologically-Altered Memory Change Personal Identity? Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness Nancy Berlinger. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8176-6; 156 PAGES, PAPER $25.00. 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 Carle Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy Jan-Otto Ottosson and Max Fink. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-94659-X; 127 PAGES, HARDCOVER, $39.95. Reviewed by Charles R. Young, MD, who is now […]

Download PDF : E&M 26.2 EDITORIAL The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Does Alien Hand Syndrome Refute Free Will? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Need to Know: Disclosure of Information to Pediatric Patients Wayne R Waz, MD On the Nature of Tube Feeding: Basic Care or Medical Treatment? Erik M Clary, MDiv, MA Dignity Never Been Photographed: Scientific Materialism, Enlightenment Liberalism, and Steven Pinker Francis J Beckwith, PhD Physician Autonomy Vs. Self-Regulation: You Can’t Have One Without the Other Amir A Khlig, PhD, Art K Mwachofi, PhD, Robert W Broyles, PhD Book Reviews Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise Holly Fernandez Lynch. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-262-12305-1; 376 PAGES, HARDCOVER $34.00. Reviewed by Sharon F. Billon, MA (Bioethics), MD, FAAD who is retired from the private practice of dermatology in Arroyo Grande, California, USA. Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier; introduction by John Swinton. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8308-3452-5; 115 PAGES, PAPER, $15.00. Reviewed by David C. Cramer, MDiv, MA (Philosophy or Religion), who is an Adjunct Professor for the School of […]

Download PDF : E&M 26.1 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 […]

Download PDF : E&M 25.3 EDITORIAL On Human Bioenhancements C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Think It’s Greed? It Might Be PDMD: Public Service Announcement Marc E. Keller and Bert M. Bieler, MD GREY MATTERS Facebook and Fusiform Gyrus William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Continuing “Futile” Support at Relative’s Insistence Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Tracking Chromosomes, Castrating Dwarves: Uninformed Consent and Eugenic Research Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD The Future of the Human Species Brent Waters, DPhil “Give Me Children or I’ll Die!” Is it Time to Consider the Uterus as a Non-vital Organ Transplant? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Book Reviews Caring for Those in Crisis: Facing Ethical Dilemmas with Patients and Families Kenneth P. Mottram. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-58743-191-3; 160 PAGES, PAPERER, $17.99 Reviewed by Patrick T. Smith, MDiv, MA (philosophy), PhD (candidate in philosophy), who is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He also serves as the Director of the Ethics Department at Angela Hospice Care Center in Livonia, Michigan, USA Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? Mary Warnock & Elisabeth MacDonald. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2008. ISBN978-0-19-953990-1; […]

Download PDF : E&M 25.2 GUEST COMMENTARY Pulling the Sheet Back Down: A Response to Battin on the Practice of Terminal Sedation Patrick T. Smith, MDiv. MA, PhD(cand.), and James S. Boal, MD GREY MATTERS Accelerated Thought in the Fast Lane William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS On the Permissibility of a DNR Order for the Patient with Dismal Prognosis Ryan R. Nash, MD Revitalizing Medicine: Empowering Natality vs. Fearing Mortality Brent Waters, DPhil Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Matthew Flannagan, PhD A Virtue-Ethical Approach towards applying Principilism Jeffrey W. Bulger, PhD Book Reviews The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Chicago and London: The Bioethics Press, 2001 ISBN 0-9711599-0-4; 187 pages, paper $21.95 Reviewed by Agnetta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London, both in the UK. End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005 ISBN 0-262-02574-4; 266 Pages: Hardcover, $32.00 Reviewed by Claretta Yvonne Dupree, RN, PhD, who is an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Department of Nursing. […]

Download PDF : E&M 25.1 EDITORIAL The Indignity of “Death with Dignity” C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Pleasing Desires or Pleasing Wishes? A New Approach to Health Definition Carlo V. Bellieni, MD and Giuseppe Buonocroe, MD GREY MATTERS Till We have Minds William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissible to forgo Emergent Restorative Surgery in This Case? Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA(Ethics) and Susan A. Salladay, RN, PhD Anti-Aging, Rights, and Human Nature Thomas D. Kennedy, PhD On Referring A. A. Howsepian, PhD Ethical Dilemmas in Triage: A Perspective from the Jewish Philosophical Tradition D. M. S. Bodansky, BMedSc (Neuroscience) Book Reviews Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (second edition) Robert M. Veatch and Amy Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2008 I S B N 9 7 8 – 0 – 1 9 – 5 3 0 8 1 2 – 9; 336 PAGES, PAPER, $29.95 Reviewed by Gregory W Rutecki, MD, who is Director of Medical Education at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine) Corrado Viafora, ed. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2005. I S B N – 9 […]

Download PDF : E&M 24.3 EDITORIAL Healthcare and the Common Good C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY How Much Brain Do I Need to Be Human? Scott B. Rae, PhD GREY MATTERS The Synapse and Other Gaps William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Rights and Responsibilities of Pregnant Women Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG Complicity and Stem Cell Research: Countering the Utilitarian Argument Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics) and Aaron Costerisan, MA (Ethics) An Ethical Analysis of the Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics), FACOOG Zenoism, Depress ion and Attitudes Toward Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Moderating Effects of Religiousity and Gender K. J. Kaplan, PhD, et al Book Reviews Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology Roger E. Olson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007. ISBN 0 – 8 010 -316 9 – 9; 247 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $19.99 Reviewed by David C. Cramer, MDiv, MA (Philosophy of Religion, cand.), who is an Adjunct Professor for the School of Religion and Philosophy at Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana, USA. Ethics & AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to Our Thinking Anton A. Van Niekerk and Lorette M. Kopelman, Ed. Walnut Creek, […]