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Health Care Ethics USA
It is quite some time since we published our electronic journal, Health Care Ethics USA. The delay has been caused by our Center moving building and campus last January. As a result, the Winter issue of 2003 and the Spring issue of 2004 had to be canceled. However, I am pleased to say that our Center for Health Care Ethics has settled into a magnificent Victorian three-level town house at the heart of the main University campus. We fit the space perfectly, with our faculty and doctoral students having excellent space for research etc. We also continue to serve all the major programs in the health sciences (the School of Allied Health Professions, School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing), the University’s Institutional Review Boards, and the University Hospital (via service to the Ethics Committee, consultations, and resident ethics education programs). In this issue we will carry 2 adverts, which is new for the journal. One advert is for a new book, edited by myself, Genetics and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Study (Saint Louis University press, 2004). This is a collection of essays by experts in the field from around the world; the essays have been written for easy use by health professionals. If you would like a copy, just follow the information in the advert. Also, there is an advert for a new series of web-based interactive programs in ethics education for health professionals, such as ethics committee personnel. A Catholic version has been developed for each program. The company that has developed these programs in partnership with our Center for Health Care Ethics is DIA learning. If you would like access to any of the programs, just follow the information on the advert. As usual, this issue of Health Care Ethics USA has three essays. The first essay by myself is twice as long as usual, offering an analysis of the recent Papal Address on end-of-life care for PVS patients. The second essay in by Mark Repenshek, PhD(c) who is the ethicist at Columbia St. Mary’s in Milwaukeee and a senior student in our PhD program; his essay applies the principle of double effect to the use of pain medication. The final essay is by Ann Suziedelis, PhD who is a recent graduate of our PhD program; her essay discusses the questions being raised about society’s duty to rescue the unborn. I hope you enjoy the essays and I look forward to receiving suggestions for topics that we might address in future issues. Professor Gerard Magill, PhD Index | Next: Interpreting Pope John Paul II’s Address on End-of-Life Care for PVS Patients |
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