Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons^™

Update - December 1991, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- The Physician as an Agent of God: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

-- [ Medical Futility: A Value-Dependent Concept ]

Update - September 1991, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Business and Medicine: Are They Ethically Compatible?

-- [ A Standard Level of Health Care to All: A Moral Obligation? ]

-- Loma Linda University reorganizes the Center for Christian Bioethics

Update - June 1991, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- The Secularization of Medical Ethics

-- [ Norplant: Blessing or Dangerous Tool In The Wrong Hands ]
-- Contraception and Coercion: Theological Reflections
-- A Legal Perspective

Update - November 1990, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Nancy Beth Cruzan and the Death of the Self

[ Can Ethics Be Taught? ]
-- Ethics Courses: Useless
-- Teaching Ethics is Vital
-- A Medical Ethics Course?
-- Is There No Place for Reason?

Update - October 1990, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Richard Lamm highlights Ethics and Aging Project
-- A Personal View

[ The Nazi Doctors ]
-- Where Did They Go Wrong?
-- The Slippery Slide of Medical Ethics
-- From Health to Holocaust: Adventists and the Nazi Doctors

-- LLU's Ethics Center supports campaign against international tobacco trade

Update - September 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Waitzkin, Kirkendahl and Likens debate National Health Plan
-- Gerald and Betty Winslow accept positions at Pacific Union College
-- Edmund Pellegrino delivers Jack Provonsha Lecture

[ Clinical Medical Ethics ]
-- Insights and Inquiries: Reflections on a Clinical Medical Ethics Internship
-- A Baby is Dying
-- Manners and Morals in Clinical Medicine

Update - November 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Gerald Winslow joins LLU faculty
-- Thompson library opens September 25

[ Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Ethical Issues ]
-- A Neonatologist's Concern
-- A Neonatologist's Reply
-- Should the Law be Changed?
-- Would Anencephalic Neonates be Citizens?
-- Cadaveric Donors Should be Dead

-- Ethics Center seeks $100,000

Update - August 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Harvey Cox launches Adventism and Ethics series
-- Society for bioethics consultation schedules three conferences
-- Conference probes "Humanity" of residency programs

[ Active Voluntary Euthanasia: Is It Moral? ]
-- Yes!
-- No!
-- Discussion

Update - May 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Yoder addresses ethicists at LLU
-- Fletcher and Conolly debate active euthanasia
-- Theological Reflections Regarding AIDS

[ "No Code" Orders: Are They Moral? ]
-- Nurses and 'No Code' Orders
-- Let's Replace "Do Not Resuscitate" With "Care for the Dying"
-- What is a 'No Code' Order?

-- The Pandora's Box of Human Life - Society's Issue: Is Biology or Personality the Essential Ingredient? (Reprint)
-- Cowart, Campbell, Provonsha assess "Ethics at Life's End"

Update - October 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Center presents faith and peace conference
-- Senator Gore addresses transplant ethics at LLU November 17
-- AAW features "Women of Courage" November 28-30
-- Is God "Dead" in Biomedical Ethics? (Critique)

[ Why Does God Let Us Suffer? ]
-- The Mystery of Suffering
-- Will Suffering Ever Really End?
-- Religion and Suffering Among My Patients
-- God and Suffering: A Discussion

Update - July 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Baby Jessie and Beyond
-- Newsbriefs
-- The Bouvia Decision: Right But Inadequate
-- LLU plans conference on ethics and transplantation

[ Apartheid and Morality Today ]
-- Growing Up White in South Africa
-- In Favor of Constructive Engagement
-- Divestment: Realistic Moral Opposition to Apartheid

-- What should treatment committees consider?
-- Religion and Politics on Sabbath (Editorial)
-- George Otto Schumacher, MD (1913-1986)
-- Thomas Gordon Goman, PhD (1944-1986)

Alternative To Current Uses Of Animals In Research, Safety Testing, And Education: A Layman's Guide, Martin L. Stephens

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Update - Summer 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- $200,000 needed by January 31
-- Gwendolyn Utt named office manager
-- Personal and social ethics: Of one piece of cloth (Editorial)I
-- Letters to the Editor

[ Modern Medical Ethics: Models, Modes, Moods ]
-- Biomedical ethics today
-- The courage to be original

Update - Spring 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- 250 Attend first national ethics conference
-- Capron to discuss "The High Cost of Dying"
-- Our twofold potential (Editorial)
-- Letter to the Editor

[ Reflections Regarding Organ Transplantation ]
-- Excepts from "Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation" public lecture

--Do cancer patients expect too much?

Update - Fall 1984, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Robert Veatch to lecture in January at Loma Linda
-- Bioethics conference slated for April
-- Charles Teel Jr. will lead Central America probe

[ Reflections Regarding Baby Fae ]
-- Ethical Issues Evoked by Baby Fae
-- The Best Available Therapy
-- The Morality of Experimenting Upon Children

-- Who Should Live When All Can? (Review)
-- Ruffcorn pledges yearly $10,000
-- Cafferky's provide $100,000
-- Ethics center seeks $500,000

Informed Consent And Medical Experimentation, George H. Martin Jr.

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Certain biomedical technologies already or almost already with us "threaten to reduce the meaning of man and to degrade the human spirit in the very process of becoming technologically feasible, long before the final stage of deployment and widespread use has been reached." It is this threat that has prompted me to consider certain medical and legal problems associated broadly with the human experimentation process. I shall be examining the concept of "informed consent" to both experimental medical therapy and nontherapeutic scientific experimentation as a means of protecting man from the potential ravages of a zealous application of scientific advances …