Table of Contents

Download PDF: Volume 36, Issue no. 1

EDITORIAL
Medicine: Contract or Covenant?
C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
Pages 5–6

GUEST COMMENTARY
The Dignity of Human Life: Sketching Out an “Equal Worth” Approach
Helen Watt, PhD
Pages 7–17

POLICY ANALYSIS
“Complex Family Planning” and the Assault on Conscience
Patrick Marmion, MD, MPH, FACPM
Pages 19–26

GREY MATTERS
Cerebral Organoids and the Threshold of Consciousness
William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
Pages 27–35

CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA
Daring to Deploy a DNA Directive
Robert D. Orr, MD, CM and Ferdinand D. Yates Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics)
Pages 37–40

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Pain Principle: An Ethical Approach to End-of-Life Decisions
Carlo V. Bellieni, MD
Pages 41–49

Clinical Science after Flexner’s 1910 Report on Medical Education: A Research Ethos Inhabited by Racial Prejudice, Colonial Attitudes, and Eugenic Theory
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
Pages 51–62

BOOK REVIEWS

Cyborg Mind: What Brain-Computer and Mind-Cyberspace Interfaces mean for Cyberneuroethics
Calum MacKellar, ed. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019.
ISBN  978-1789200140, 249 PAGES, HARDCOVER.  $134.59  (Reviewed by Agnetta Sutton, PhD)
Page 63

Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
Kelly M. Kapic. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Academic, 2017.
ISBN  978-0830851799, 197 PAGES, PAPERBACK.  $15.00  (Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer, PhD)
Page 64