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Imagine you are a GP, about to call in your next patient, Belinda. She is pregnant. A routine anomaly scan had suggested a minor degree of unilateral club foot, confirmed on a more detailed scan at 23 weeks reported by a radiologist and paediatric orthopaedic surgeon. Talipes Equinovarus (also known as...
I find painting fascinating. Search 'speed painting' on YouTube and you'll see what I mean! Typically, painters begin with an outline, and then fill in the details. I believe this is a good approach to many things, including ethics and politics. In common with many UK medical schools, the course at...
Love it or hate it, an understanding of ethics is essential to practising effective and consistent medicine. Wherever you turn, there are decisions to be made. How should you respond to this patient's request for contraception, or an abortion? How do you respond to a son's request to withhold information...
Charles Foster concedes: 'In many ways this book is utterly trite. It states something that is obvious – that medical law and ethics, dealing with the whole of the immensely variegated human condition, needs to listen to other principles as well as autonomy.' Yet this book is an important challenge...
This substantially updated second edition examines ethical dilemmas at the beginning and end of life. Written by a Christian professor of ethics and perinatology, the philosophical, theological, legal and medical aspects of these issues are discussed in a real-world setting. The book starts with reviews of well-known UK medical cases that...
Ethics is far more than the life and death issues currently popular in the media. It's about every decision we make; 'I should do this' or 'I shouldn't do that'. This article introduces the sorts of questions that ethics is concerned with, the answers that humanist frameworks offer, and a...
Christian bioethics growever more complex as technologies develop and new issues emerge. AgnetaSutton has set out to make some of the themes more accessible. She takes a broad sweep, encompassing traditional challenges such as euthanasia and IVF, as well as more novel topics like our roleas guardians of creation and...
This collection of philosophical essays by academics grapple with ethical topics through the medium of film. The essays cover issues such as abortion,personhood, cloning andidentity, memory, euthanasia, eugenics, autonomy and paternalism,using well known films such as 'I, Robot', 'Wit', 'Gattaca'and 'Eternal Sunshine of theSpotless Mind', as well as moreobscure ones...
The philosopher Brenda Almond opens her book The Fragmenting Family with: 'What is the family? There are many ways of answering this question, but I take as my starting point here G K Chesterton's striking metaphor of family as “this frail cord, flung from the forgotten hills of yesterday to...
How does spirituality relate to ethics? Robinson's book explores this relationship using case studies. He carefully considers how spirituality and ethics can be integrated in the practice of health and social care. There are many illuminating passages, eg on the meaning of agape love and its inclusive commitment to others....
