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Update - October 1988, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- International Abortion Conference Convenes November 14-16
-- Clinical ethics intensives begin in January
-- LLU establishes Stahl fund
-- More on Ethics and Aging (Letter)

[ Tobacco Taxes: Are They Moral? ]
-- The Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988
-- Why I Oppose the Tobacco Tax Initiative
-- Why I Favor the Tobacco Tax Initiative

-- Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors (Report)

Guest Opinion: Human Aging There's Less To It Than We Thought, John W. Rowe

Bridgewater Review

Hearing and memory losses, cognitive decline, easily fractured bones, crankiness and depression are often considered to be inevitable accompaniments of the aging process. Yet many losses which have traditionally been thought of as age determined are, on more careful examination, turning out to be merely age-associated. Many of the declines we associate with being elderly can be explained in terms of lifestyle, habits, diet and other psychosocial factors which are not a necessary part of the aging process

Update - June 1988, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- LLU schedules clinical ethics seminar for 1989
-- Humphry and Takken debate California death initiative
-- Jack Provonsha lectureship inaugurated at A.P.C.

[ Settings Medical Limits ]
-- Ethics and Old Age
-- A Response to Fletcher
-- How Old is Too Old?

-- Metaphors and Medicine (Review)