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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 1994

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Introduction: Emerging Paradigms In Bioethics Symposium, Roger B. Dworkin

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

A Response To Beauchamp, David H. Smith

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Principles And Particularity: The Role Of Cases In Bioethics, John D. Arras

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Bioethics With A Human Face, Carl E. Schneider

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Posthumous Reproduction, John A. Robertson

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Paradigms And Our Shrinking Bioethics, Peter Cherbas

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethihcs

Society And The Balance Of Professional Dominance, And Patient Autonomy In Medical Care, Bernice A. Pescosolido

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Narrative And Casuistry: A Response To John Arras, Richard B. Miller

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics

Bioethics With A Human Face, Carl E. Schneider

Articles

This Article and the successor article I will shortly publish grow out of one reaction I have had to years of reading bioethical and legal literature. Let me begin by putting the point in its simplest, even crudest, form: That literature too often discusses the problems of health care in so disembodied and denatured a way that the patients and physicians, the family and friends, the dread and the disease are quite abstracted from the scene. The result is a literature that critically limits itself and that crucially oversimplifies the issues it confronts. There are, of course, reasons bioethical and …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1994

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Method In Jewish Bioethics: An Overview, Dena S. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This essay introduces the reader to the processes by which Jewish ethical-legal reasoning brings old insights to bear on new problems generated by advances in science and medicine. There are at least four reasons why Jewish legal thinking in this area is important to the wider community of Western legal scholars. First, because the law often strives to consider different religious beliefs, it is important to understand these beliefs, the history of these beliefs, and how they function within their religious community.

Second, Jewish legal thinking is important because representatives of religious traditions frequently serve on policy and law-making bodies. …

Bioethics In The Language Of The Law, Carl E. Schneider

Articles

What happens when the language of the law becomes a vulgar tongue? What happens, more particularly, when parties to bioethical discourse are obliged to borrow in their daily controversies the ideas, and even the language, peculiar to judicial proceedings? How suited are the habits, taste, and language of the judicial magistrate to the political, and more particularly, the bioethical, questions of our time? We ask these questions because, as the incomparable Tocqueville foresaw, Americans today truly do resolve political-and moral--questions into judicial questions. As Abraham Lincoln hoped, the Constitution "has become the political religion of the nation," and many Americans …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1994

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1994

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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