Issues in Law & Medicine articles from September 1998

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from September 1998

"Brainstem death," "brain death" and death: a critical re-evaluation of the purported equivalence.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT: The author challenges brain-based diagnoses of death by re-examining the concept of death, its definition, the anatomical criterion, and the clinical signs or tests. Dr. Shewmon challenges the fundamental assumptions underlying brain...

Geneticizing disability: the Human Genome Project and the commodification of self.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT: This article explores the potential impact upon people with disability of some of the technological information being uncovered by the Human Genome Project. While the project has been promoted as promising positive benefits to...

Lethal autonomy: the malfunction of the informed consent mechanism within the context of prenatal diagnosis of genetic variants.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT: In this article, Cara Dunne and Catherine Warren challenge the current role of genetic counselors in advising expectant mothers about potential genetic defects of their fetuses. They show that genetic counselors sometimes provide...

Executive summary of cloning human beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
September 22, 1998... The idea that humans might someday be cloned--created from a single somatic cell without sexual reproduction--moved further away from science fiction and closer to a genuine scientific possibility on February 23, 1997. On that date, The...

Suicide and Euthanasia: Are They Ever Right?(Review)
September 22, 1998... Stewart, Gary P. et al. Suicide and Euthanasia: Are They Ever Right? Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998. Many in our society champion suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia as acceptable answers to intractable physical and emotional...

For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Heimer, Carol A. & Lisa R. Staffen. For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998; 800-621-2736. This book examines the social organization...

The Birth of Bioethics.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Jonsen, Albert R. The Birth of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. This book designates the forty years between 1947 and 1987 as the era during which bioethics emerged as a distinct discipline and discourse. In 1947, the...

On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics, 2nd Edition.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Lammers, Stephen E. & Allen Verhey, eds. On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics, 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998; 800-253-7521. Selected as a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" when it was...