New Issue of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is Now Available

June 17, 2011

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2011) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

  • “No Chance, No Value, or No Way: Reassessing the Place of Futility in Health Care and Bioethics” by Sarah Winch & Ian Kerridge.
  • “Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care” by Lawrence J. Schneiderman.
  • “Medical Futility and the Death of a Child” by Nancy S. Jecker.
  • “Same Coin-Different Sides? Futility and Patient Refusal of Treatment” by Eleanor Milligan.
  • “Minimally Conscious States, Deep Brain Stimulation, and What is Worse than Futility” by Grant Gillett.
  • “The Futility of Futility: Death Causation is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ in Discussions about Limitation of Medical Treatment” by Michael A. Ashby.
  • “Futility Determination as a Process: Problems with Medical Sovereignty, Legal Issues and the Strengths and Weakness of the Procedural Approach” by Cameron Stewart.
  • “Negative “GHIs,” the Right to Health Protection, and Future Generations” by Jan Deckers.
  • “Unfit for Life”: A Case Study of Protector-Protected Analogies in Recent Advocacy of Eugenics and Coercive Genetic Discrimination” by Mark Musterhjelm.
  • “Marginalizing Experience: A Critical Analysis of Public Discourse Surrounding Stem Cell Research in Australia” by Tamra Lysaght, John Miles Little and Ian Herold Kerridge.
  • “Allhoff, Fritz, Patrick Lin, and Daniel Moore. 2010. What is nanotechnology and why does it matter? From science to ethics” by Jennifer Kuzma.