Update is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Loma Linda University Center for Christian Bioethics, that contains not only news from the Center, but also thought-provoking articles that grapple with everyday issues in the area of medical ethics – physician-assisted suicide, stem cells, infant organ transplantation, right to life, right to die and more . All issues and articles are copyright of the Center for Christian Bioethics.
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Update - December 1991
In this issue: -- The Physician as an Agent of God: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- [ Medical Futility: A Value-Dependent Concept ] ...Read More -
Update - February 1992
In this issue: [ Faith, Medicine, and Religious Liberty - Part 1, Jehovah's Witnesses ]-- Blood Transfusions: A Patient's Right to Refuse-- Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood Transfusion-- Blood Transfusions: A ...Read More -
Update - May 1992
In this issue: [ Faith, Medicine, and Religious Liberty - Part 2, Christian Science ]-- Spiritual Healing for Children-- Religious Liberty, Spiritual Healing, and the Health Care of Children-- Spiritual ...Read More -
Update - September 1992
In this issue: -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands - Excepts from an interview with Rob Willem Treep [ Kevorkian and Assisted Suicide ]-- Thoughts Provoked by Dr. Kevorkian's Suicide Machine-- ...Read More -
Update - Special Report November 1992
In this issue: [ Special Report to Our Contributors Proposition 161 - Death with Dignity Act, Should It Become Law? ]-- Yes-- No ...Read More -
Update - December 1992
In this issue: -- Personal and Professional Integrity in Clinical Medicine ...Read More -
Update - March 1993
In this issue: -- Loma Linda offers Masters of Arts in Biomedical and Clinical Ethics and assists Claremont with Theological degree [ Depo-Provera: Contraceptive Dream or Nightmare? ]-- A Gynecologist's ...Read More -
Update - June 1993
In this issue: -- Gerald Winslow to succeed Wil Alexander as Religion Dean and Ethics Chair; Ivan Blazen to teach scripture and ethics-- Quality-of-Life Is Not a Dirty Word [ ...Read More -
Update - September 1993
In this issue: -- Abortion in Context: Individual, Family, and Community-- Abortion Guidelines, Seventh-day Adventist Church, October 12, 1992-- Holding Values in Tension: The 1992 Abortion Guidelines-- Adventist Abortion Guidelines: ...Read More -
Update - December 1993
In this issue: -- Wages Through the Ages: The Ethics of Physician Income-- Frontiers in Medicine and Morality - Probed at Second Annual Contributors Convocation ...Read More -
Update - March 1994
In this issue: -- The Human Genome Project: A Molecular Approach to Defining Humanity-- Some Legal Ramifications for Newborns-- Ethical and Legal Ramifications of Predictive Genetic Information-- Graduate program combines ...Read More -
Update - June 1994
In this issue: -- Can America Afford the Booming Elderly Population?-- The Booming Elderly Population: The Economic Crunch and Generational Equity-- Our Burgeoning Elderly Population: Rationing Scarce Resources-- Medicine and ...Read More -
Update - September 1994
In this issue: -- Ritualized Genital Mutilation the Procedure-- A Cultural Perspective-- Female Genital Mutilation: A Question of Fundamental Human Rights-- Ethics When Cultures Clash-- Ethics Consultation (Review) ...Read More -
Update - December 1994
In this issue: -- Minding Our Language: Metaphors and Biomedical Ethics ...Read More -
Update - March 1995
In this issue: -- Cabbages and Condoms: Population Control in a Crowded World-- On Conundrums, Condoms and Cabbages: "Prior Questions" on the Subject of Population Control-- LLU offers Masters of ...Read More -
Update - July 1995
In this issue: -- Gender Discrimination in the Medical Community [ Responses to the American Medical Association of the Use of Anencephalic Neonates as Organ Donors ]-- Maintain the "Dead ...Read More -
Update - October 1995
In this issue: -- Managed Care: Challenges Facing Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams-- Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors: AMA and CEJA-- Can Evil Even End? ...Read More -
Update - December 1995
In this issue: -- Making Human Life Captive to Biomedical Technology: Christianity and the Demise of Human Values ...Read More -
Update - February 1996
In this issue: -- Adventism and Assisted Procreation: Excerpts from a panel discussion at LLU-- Adventist Guidelines on Assisted Procreation-- LLU offers Masters of Arts in Biomedical and Clinical Ethics ...Read More -
Update - July 1996
In this issue: -- Stress and Distress in Pediatric Nurses: The Hidden Tragedy of Baby K-- Ethics Grand Rounds: The Year in Review-- CEJA Reverses Its Stance on Using Anencephalic ...Read More -
Update - October 1996
In this issue: -- Is Organ Reanimation a Better Mousetrap?-- Reanimation of Dead Hearts-- Reanimation Dialogue-- James W. Walters publishes second book on ethics and aging ...Read More -
Update - December 1996
In this issue: -- Bioehtics Endowment Honors Jack and Margaret Provonsha-- Partial Birth Abortion: Ethical Issues-- Partial Birth Abortion: Mandates, Methods, and Morality-- Partial Birth Abortion Dialogue ...Read More -
Update - March 1997
In this issue: -- James Walters publishes book on Personhood-- Prayer and Health Care: An "Altared" Responsibility-- Conference Report on "Bioethics and Human Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives" ...Read More -
Update - July 1997
In this issue: -- Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies-- Life versus Death: The Ethical Imperative to Practice and Teach Using the Newly Dead-- You Can't Always Get What You Want-- ...Read More -
Update - September 1997
In this issue: -- Cocaine Addiction: The Nemesis of Modern Culture ...Read More