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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Together in Darkness - Sheila Cassidy“Oh Death, where is thy Victory?” sings the choir, and I look up wearily from my notes and mutter, third bed on the left, behind the curtains, oh, and down in resusc. Read more... Verbal Engineering and the Swaying of Public Conscience - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.Whenever longstanding laws are reversed, and practices come to be sanctioned that were formerly forbidden, it behooves us to examine whether such momentous legal shifts are morally coherent or not. Read more... Welcome to Our Brave New World: An Interview with Wesley J. Smith - John ZmirakWill the cost of biotechnology's alleviation of human suffering be our acceptance of a ‘Brave New World,’ where scientists wield godlike power to refashion our biological nature? If so, we will not get there in one giant leap. Rather, we will descend into the darkness in small steps, all but unaware that the shadows are lengthening. Read more... What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.When I give talks on stem cell research or in vitro fertilization, people invariably ask, "What should be done with all the frozen embryos?" Read more... What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells - Maureen L. CondicBack at the beginning of 2002, there was considerable optimism regarding the promise that embryonic stem cells were said to hold for millions of people suffering from fatal or debilitating medical conditions. Stem cells derived from human embryos, it was claimed, provided the best hope for relief of human suffering. Read more... What's Lost in Prenatal Testing - Patricia E. BauerShe was a fresh-faced young woman with a couple of adorable kids, whiling away an hour in the sandbox at the park near my home. So was I, or so I thought. Read more... When Ideology Corrupts Science and Medicine - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykSome physicians and researchers fail to see the important role of ethics and religion in the world of medical science. Read more... When Pregnancy Goes Awry: Ectopic Pregnancies - Father Tadeusz PacholczykHuman pregnancy begins whenever a sperm unites with an egg inside the fallopian tube. Read more... When We Were Philosopher Kings - Ruth ShalitAs a practitioner of a new medical specialty known as “clinical ethics,” Jonathan Moreno joins the burgeoning cadre of academics who are making the leap from the blackboard to the bedside. Read more... Which Medical Ethics for the 21st Century? - DIANNE N. IRVINGEveryday we read and hear about the constant onslaught of controversial medical issues, e.g., euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, test-tube babies, cloning and stem cell research, creating monsters in the lab, etc. — it is all coming down very fast and we will all have to make decisions about these and many other issues not even imagined yet in the 21st Century. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:31:44
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