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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Bioethics Mess - Dianne N. Irving“Bioethics” — the word sounds like old-fashioned medical ethics applied to new medical technology. It’s the application of traditional philosophical or theological principles to the moral dilemmas created by, say, cloning or experimenting with new AIDS drugs, right? Not really. Email This Article The Case Against Perfection - Michael J. SandelWhat's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering? Email This Article The Case of Terri Schiavo: When Does Dignity End? - Reverend Michael BlackWhile hard cases don’t make good law, Terri Schiavo’s circumstance crystallizes all the major issues surrounding care for the terminally ill, and provides an opportunity to preach and educate our people about human rights, the inherent dignity of all human life, and the limits of medical treatment. Email This Article The Case of Terri Shiavo - Fr. William SaundersA friend of mine and I had an argument over Terri Schiavo as to whether food and water should be stopped to allow her to die. I said that to do so would really be like killing her. She said that she is going to die anyway. Is there any Church teaching on this matter? Email This Article The difference between knowledge and wisdom - George WeigelThis past April 25th marked the fiftieth anniversary of the most important scientific article of the twentieth century: James Watson and Francis Crick’s description in Nature of the "double-helix" structure of DNA. Email This Article The Evolution of Genocide - Rebecca MessallWhile reading the newspaper in May 1999, I noticed a headline about an evolution controversy occupying the Kansas State Board of Education. I flipped the page without reading the story. Like many pro-life people, I felt that the origin of the species was a matter of God's choice of methods - but not a pro-life concern. Email This Article The Freedom of Conscience in Relation to "Health" - Iain T. BensonA student at the medical school at the University of Manitoba has been threatened with loss of graduation if he will not offer abortion as an option to a patient. In terms of the legal requirement, the issue is whether or not a physician is required to refer a patient for an abortion. The answer is “no.” Email This Article The Future Is Now - Father Thomas Berg, L.C.The stem-cell debate changes. Email This Article The Holy Grail of Reprogramming: A New Era for Stem Cells? - Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.The recent discovery that regular old garden-variety skin cells can be converted into highly flexible (pluripotent) stem cells has rocked the scientific world. Email This Article The Human Cost of In Vitro Fertilization Technique - H.A. NIELSEN“The individual who is a servant of technique,” Jacques Ellul writes, “must be completely unconscious of himself.” Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 29-Jul-2008 - 17:59:51
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