Ethics & Medicine back issues from July 2006:
ERRATA
Jul 01, 2006; ... Regrettably, the piece by Katrina A. Bramstedt, Ph.D., "Supporting Organ Transplantation in Non-Resident Aliens Within Limits," (22:1 [Spring 2006]: 39-45) was published without its accompanying tables. It has been rerun in its entirety with the tables in this issue. Further, the Guest ...
NEUROSCIENCE, NUANCE, AND NEUROETHICS
Jul 01, 2006; ... GREY MATTERS A primary task of ethics is to recognize valid distinctions in the face of uncertainty concerning moral obligations. When wrestling with life's toughest questions, facts are often incompletely accessible or their interpretations ambiguous. Available theoretical approaches ...
CORDELIA TAYLOR, R.N.: HEALTHCARE HEROINE
Jul 01, 2006; ... The night that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Cordelia Taylor joined a march in downtown Milwaukee, and in a fit of anger, threw a rock through a department store window. It seemed like glass fell for an hour ... It came to me clearly that I was not marching for the right ...
ASSISTED PROCREATION: TOO LITTLE CONSIDERATION FOR THE BABIES?
Jul 01, 2006; ... Abstract Recent studies have revealed much higher risks of cerebral palsy and malformations in babies conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) than in babies conceived naturally. Here we question whether parents can legitimately accept this risk on behalf of offspring. We argue that ...
SUPPORTING ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN NON-RESIDENT ALIENS WITHIN LIMITS
Jul 01, 2006; ... Abstract It is common knowledge that the supply of cadaveric organs does not meet demand. This shortage is often used as ethical argument against transplantation in Non-Resident Aliens; however, this fact in isolation does not present a comprehensive picture of organ allocation in USA ....
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ONLINE GENETIC TESTING AND THE FOUR PRINCIPLES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ETHICAL ISSUES
Jul 01, 2006; ... Abstract The development of genetic tests marketed and sold direct-to-consumers (DTC) via the internet raises moral concerns and debate about their appropriateness and ethical and clinical significance. These tests are offered for a wide range of diseases and conditions, and the ...
Attending Children (a doctor's education)
Jul 01, 2006; ... Attending Children (a doctor's education) Margaret E. Mohrmann Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005 ISBN 1-58901-054-X; 209 PAGES, CLOTH, £17.95 Do you remember, as a child, how you enjoyed being told stories? Well then, grab this book, sit back, and - once again - ...
Lifelines
Jul 01, 2006; ... Lifelines Muriel R. Gillick, M. D. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32241-6; 265 PARES, PAPERBACK, $13.95. This well written book "seeks to help the frail elderly and their families cope with their condition by describing some of the most common causes of frailty ...
EXPLORING ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR SELF-DEMAND AMPUTATION
Jul 01, 2006; ... Abstract Self-demand amputees are persons who need to have one or more healthy limbs or digits amputated to fit the way they see themselves. They want to rid themselves of a limb that they believe does not belong to their body-identity. The obsessive desire to have appendages surgically ...
Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights
Jul 01, 2006; ... Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights Teresa Wagner and Leslie Carbone, Editors. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc; and Oxford, UK: Cumnor Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-7618-1842-1; 162 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $15.00 With the recently approved ...
At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics
Jul 01, 2006; ... At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics Edwin C. Hui. Downers Grove: IVP, 2002. ISBN 0-8038-2667-X; 416 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $23.95 Edwin Hui, a professor of biomedical ethics and Christianity, presents a technically informed and sophisticated study regarding beginning ...
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine
Jul 01, 2006; ... Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Stuart White and Timothy Baldwin. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY; Melbourne, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and Cape Town, South Africa: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 1-841-10209-1; 216 PAGES, PAPERBACK, ...
Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Jul 01, 2006; ... Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine Donna L. Dickenson, Editor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-6647-81; 353 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $60 Once upon a time there was a special kind of physician - an "obstetrician" - charged with the responsibility of caring for ...
Hands Off Our Ovaries - A New Movement and Manifesto
Jul 01, 2006; ... A new movement is growing that is bringing together pro-life and pro-choice advocates to support women's health by calling for "a moratorium on egg extraction for research purposes until such time as global discourse and scientific research yields information sufficient to establish adequate ...
IN THE NEWS
Jul 01, 2006; ... Adult Stem Cell Advances Menstrual blood has been recently found by researchers in Japan to be a good source of stem cells. The stem cells from young women's menstrual blood were discovered in significant quantities, approximately 30 times more than stem cells from bone marrow, which ...
Nanotechnology Update
Jul 01, 2006; ... Advances in nanotechnology raise significant worker safety questions - no federal or state worker protection laws currently on the books specifically cover the issues raised by nanotechnology. Potential toxicity problems exist where there are particles small enough to enter the bloodstream, and ...