Author Index - John Holden

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The vulnerable: their quality of care (triple helix - Christmas 2010)

I have worked for 25 years as an NHS GP in the north west of England. Care for the vulnerable is the main purpose of my job, and the direct or indirect professional concern for most of us each day. Aspects of vulnerability are also the main ethical issues we...

Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine - Toward the making of the healing practitioner (Book Review) (triple helix - spring/summer 2007)

Imagine working in a country where 77% of people want their physician to address their spiritual concerns, 61% say that faith is the most important influence in their lives and almost 50% want their physician to pray with them. That country is the United States of America. Faith, Spirituality,...

Postcoital 'contraception' (triple helix - summer 1999)

Requests for postcoital contraception (PCC) cause me more ethical discomfort than anything. They raise practical problems that can be greater than those surrounding requests for abortion, and GPs as well as those working in A&E, gynaecology and family planning have to decide what their attitudes and practice must be. Christian teaching One...