Racial justice and being created in the image of God
I have a friend who teaches public health. We share a common faith and a common commitment to living out that faith. However, we have different priorities. In medicine he focuses on the overall health...
View ArticleCoronavirus 2019: A case of fear as a harm from technology
One of the ethical concerns in modern medicine is whether new technology developed out of a desire to help people may cause more harm than good. Most of the time we think about this in relation to...
View ArticleWithdrawing life-sustaining treatment from an infant and rights of conscience
The is currently a legal (and ethical) debate in Texas over the treatment of a one-year-old infant, Tinslee Lewis (see articles in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)....
View ArticleIs personhood a biased term?
In ethics it is very important to communicate with clearly defined terms. This becomes especially important when dealing with a very divisive topic such as abortion. Fifty years ago, in the ethical...
View ArticleNew technology, old moral problem
Many of our discussions in bioethics are about whether the things that are possible to do with advances in medical technology are things that we ought to do. However, some of the moral concerns in...
View ArticleGood news
The angel who surprised some shepherds outside of Bethlehem brought them good news. They were told that a baby had been born who would be a savior and that they were being invited to go and see him. I...
View ArticleDementia and the value of human life
Recent public reporting of some cases in Canada of people with dementia whose lives have been ended by euthanasia have caused me to think about the value of human life in those who have dementia....
View ArticleGiving thanks for life
The “bio” in bioethics means life. Although it includes other types of life the focus of bioethics is on human life. The announcement a year ago of human infants born in China after their genes had...
View ArticleRights of conscience and the distinction between needed and desired treatment
Rights of conscience, the moral concept that physicians or other medical providers should be able to choose not to provide or participate in medical treatments which they believe to be morally wrong,...
View ArticleThe importance of premises
In an interesting article in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, titled “Hannah Arendt in St. Peter’s Square,” Joseph Fins and Jenny Reardon write about the importance of deep ethical reflection in...
View ArticleScreening that benefits the screener
I teach it course on human diseases for students in a public health program. One of the things that we talk about is asymptomatic disease. If a disease has no symptoms the only way that we can detect...
View ArticleWhy do we do this?
Many of the posts on this blog involve cautions that there are things in medicine which we are capable of doing and which some want to do that we should not do. Much of the time those cautions go...
View ArticleWhat Christian ethics is not
About this time in the semester, after discussing some basic things about the discipline of ethics and looking at some of the main ethical theories in western philosophical ethics, I begin a discussion...
View ArticleMedical care as I get older
I have been thinking about this for a while, and even more since I recently retired from practicing medicine (but not from teaching) and realized while working through our retirement plans that my...
View ArticleSuicide in older adults
There is much discussion and debate within bioethics about the permissibility of physician-assisted suicide, but less discussion about suicide in general. We also spent a lot of time talking about...
View ArticleReclaiming the Lost Art of Dying
As I continue to reflect on the recent CBHD bioethics conference, there are several of the sessions that stand out to me. One was the presentation by John Kilner at the conclusion of the conference...
View ArticleEnding well
By Steve Phillips This past week I attended the CBHD summer conference. This year’s theme was “Taking Care: Perspectives for the End of Life.” As usual, the conference was filled with thought-provoking...
View ArticleParental responsibility in childhood immunizations
Steve Phillips Last week I wrote about the issue of parental responsibility and medical decision-making for children. We have good reasons for having parents be the primary decision makers for children...
View ArticleParental responsibility in medical decisions for children
By Steve Phillips The 2 posts on this blog this week by Neil Skjoldal and Mark McQuain raise issues related to parental decision-making for the medical treatment of their children. Neil raised this...
View ArticleMen without chests
By Steve Phillips One thing that is essential for us to be able to think well about bioethics is an understanding of who we are as human beings. One aspect of that which has been discussed on this...
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