George, Robert P & Christopher Tollefsen. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2008; www.doubleday.com.The national debate over abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research have created an unbridgeable gap between...
This book is about the transformation of traditional medicine into the modern "scientific" variety, and the patients' and doctors' adventures on this journey. It is also about losses. The ethical and intellectual costs of modernization are proving painfully...
ABSTRACT:Stories abound of both women with prescriptions turned away at the pharmacy door and members of the most trusted health care profession losing jobs and running afoul of ethics rules. Scholars have spilt much intellectual ink divining whether...
The featured article in this edition of issues in Law & Medicine, by law professor Jennifer E. Spreng, searches for a common law "duty" of pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives. Stories abound of women with prescriptions turned away and...