January 13, 2016
(Pharmacy Times) – A Washington State pharmacy and 2 pharmacists continue to fight a law prohibiting the state’s pharmacists from using religious objections to refuse to dispense emergency contraceptives. Rhonda Mesler and Margo Thelen, the 2 pharmacists objecting to the … Read More
December 11, 2015
(Washington Post) – The first study to examine religious identity and workplace discrimination against American Muslim doctors found that nearly half felt more scrutiny at work compared to their peers, and nearly one in four said they experienced religious discrimination … Read More
November 13, 2015
Christian Journal for Global Health (vol. 2, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Rehabilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries for Adult Acquired Disability: Challenges Posed by Rapidity of Health System Change and Position on … Read More
November 11, 2015
Public Health Nursing (vol. 32, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Impact of Nurses of Neglected Tropical Disease Management” by Jane Blood-Siegfried, et al. “Should Home-Based Contraceptive Dispensing Become a Routine Part of Public Health Nurse … Read More
November 11, 2015
Christian Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What is Christian About Christian Bioethics Revisited” by Ryan R. Nash “Bioethics, the Gospel, and Political Engagement” by Lisa Sowle Cahill “The Arc of the Moral … Read More
November 11, 2015
Health & Social Work (vol. 40, no. 4, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “‘When Things Are Really Complicated, We Call the Social Worker’: Post-Hip-Fracture Care Transitions for Older People” by Joanie Sims-Gould, et al. “Qualitative Study: Exploring the … Read More
September 9, 2015
(New Scientist) – This month 2 million Muslims are expected to converge on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the Hajj. The MERS virus is way ahead of them, prompting concerns that pilgrims may catch and spread the disease. MERS emerged in … Read More
September 2, 2015
(BBC) – Pope Francis is making it easier for women and doctors to seek forgiveness for abortion, by allowing all priests to forgive it. In Catholicism, abortion is viewed as such a grave sin that it can punished with excommunication. … Read More
September 1, 2015
(Time) – Religion and spirituality are not common topics of discussion in intensive care units (ICUs), and doctors often go out of their way to avoid them—even though religion is often very important to patients and their medical surrogates during … Read More
August 19, 2015
Christian Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bioethics and the family: Family building in the Twenty-First Century” by Ana S. Iltis and Mark J. Cherry “Religious beliefs and reproductive counseling practices in … Read More
August 19, 2015
Journal of Moral Theology (vol. 4, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Roman Catholic teaching on international debt: Toward a new methodology for Catholic social ethics and moral theology” by M. Therese Lysaught “Grace is … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – Widespread blood transfusion, by contrast, is less than a century old. Yet it, too, was popularly adopted without rigorous testing of when, exactly, it benefitted patients. Just as early practitioners accepted the virtues of draining blood … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – After the war, donated blood became an integral part of Western medicine. Advances in care, including open-heart surgery, artificial kidney replacements, and trauma work “consumed huge amounts of blood,” Starr writes. Doctors also transfused patients to … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – Though Witnesses accept virtually all other medical interventions, the stricture against transfusion can affect their care. Patients may need donor blood when they lose their own blood rapidly, as a result of a car crash or … Read More
August 13, 2015
(New York Times) – Religion was never discussed in my medical training. In medical school, a priest maintained a small lounge, providing coffee and tea, where students could sometimes drop in to get coffee, but that was wholly optional, and … Read More
July 23, 2015
(Sci Dev Net) – Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet. The … Read More
June 12, 2015
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 82, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Pain medicine and palliative care as an alternative to euthanasia in end-of-life cancer care” by Michael Erdek “Contraception and abortion: Fruits of the same … Read More
May 12, 2015
Christian Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 1, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A new theological framework for Roman Catholic Bioethics: Pope Francis makes a significant change in the moral framework for bioethics” by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr … Read More
March 24, 2015
(New Zealand Herald) – Turkey’s top religious affairs council has spoken out against surrogate motherhood, saying the practice should be banned as it is contains elements of adultery. Hurriyet Daily News reports that the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) said … Read More
March 23, 2015
(The Atlantic) – But what about religiously affiliated women? Where were their voices in all of this? And what did they think about the mandate? This was the question that intrigued Elizabeth Patton, an OB/GYN and health-services researcher at the … Read More
February 6, 2015
(Washington Post) – The Internet rumors that claim vaccinations mean having tiny pieces of aborted fetuses injected into your body are flat-out wrong, yet there is a grain of truth in the assertion that vaccinations and abortions are linked. Many … Read More
February 5, 2015
(CNN) – Two state senators in California are proposing legislation that would eliminate the “personal beliefs” exemption for parents who don’t want their children to be vaccinated. Dr. Richard Pan and Ben Allen’s announcement came on the day the state … Read More
January 29, 2015
(The Telegraph) – Introducing laws to allow three parent babies would be ‘irresponsible’ the Church of England has said ahead of a crucial vote in the House of Commons next week. Next Tuesday, MPs will vote to amend the Human … Read More
January 28, 2015
(Medscape) – Medscape’s 2014 Physician Ethics Report revealed that among the more than 21,000 respondents, 54% of physicians said that physician-assisted suicide (PAS) should be allowed, compared with only 46% who said that in 2010. Clearly, the concept is gaining … Read More
December 22, 2014
(ABC News) – A federal jury ruled Friday that a northern Indiana Roman Catholic diocese discriminated against a former teacher in one of its schools by firing her after church officials learned she was trying to get pregnant through in … Read More
