Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 2004

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 2004

Embryonic discourse: abortion, stem cells and cloning.
March 22, 2004... Abstract: This Article interprets the debate about abortion and the debate about embryonic research and therapeutic cloning as aspects of a larger history of ideas. The Article suggests that embryos increasingly stand for different truths in...

Adult stem cells.
March 22, 2004... Within just a few years, the possibility that the human body contains cells that can repair and regenerate damaged and diseased tissue has gone from an unlikely proposition to a virtual certainty. Adult stem cells have been isolated from...

Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2004... Peppin, John F. and Mark J. Cherry. Annals of Bioethics--Regional Perspectives in Bioethics. Exton, Pennsylvania: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, 2003. Bioethics cannot be thought of as a primarily North American and Western European...

Death and Dying: Opposing Viewpoints.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2004... Haley, James, ed. Death and Dying: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003. This recent addition to the Opposing Viewpoints series includes chapters on improvement of end-of-life care, how people cope with death, efforts to...

Teenage Pregnancy: Opposing Viewpoints.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 22, 2004... Ojeda, Auriana, ed. Teenage Pregnancy: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003. This recent addition to the Opposing Viewpoints series includes chapters on the problem of teenage pregnancy, contributing factors, options...