Ethics & Medicine : Volume 29:1 Spring 2013

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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 medicine at Siouxland Community Health Center, where he is also a director. He is also active in St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. In addition, he is an associate Pastor at Friendship Community Church in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, and is matriculating for a Doctorate in Bioethics (DBE) at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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