Harm reduction strategies aim at protecting those with substance use disorders from using in dangerous situations. This is done by providing safe injection sites with clean needles, as well as other controlled situations that prevent the spread of disease and decrease the likelihood of overdose. Some argue that this encourages dangerous behavior when the best approach would be to encourage abstinence. However, advocates say that harm reduction strategies give the best opportunity for counseling and offer hope for recovery. This article explores both arguments.
{"title":"Revisiting Harm Reduction Strategy: Is Harm Reduction Harmful?","authors":"Jay J. Oh","doi":"10.5840/em2023481017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em2023481017","url":null,"abstract":"Harm reduction strategies aim at protecting those with substance use disorders from using in dangerous situations. This is done by providing safe injection sites with clean needles, as well as other controlled situations that prevent the spread of disease and decrease the likelihood of overdose. Some argue that this encourages dangerous behavior when the best approach would be to encourage abstinence. However, advocates say that harm reduction strategies give the best opportunity for counseling and offer hope for recovery. This article explores both arguments.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135156036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Palliative care and hospice are growing fields in health care. Both require special attention from medical professionals with an understanding of suffering as a gift. The author explores the end-of-life care through a Christocentric lens that sees the whole person: body and soul. The objective is to embrace the unavoidable struggle that the end of life brings with an eye to the sanctifying nature of suffering.
{"title":"Suffering with Christ: A Christocentric Approach to Palliative Care and Hospice","authors":"Caitlyn Trader","doi":"10.5840/em2023481118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em2023481118","url":null,"abstract":"Palliative care and hospice are growing fields in health care. Both require special attention from medical professionals with an understanding of suffering as a gift. The author explores the end-of-life care through a Christocentric lens that sees the whole person: body and soul. The objective is to embrace the unavoidable struggle that the end of life brings with an eye to the sanctifying nature of suffering.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135609931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is taken from a letter written by Dr. Joseph Meaney, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center regarding the fiftieth anniversary of the Center’s founding. It discusses several issues in medical and scientific advancement, as well as their moral implications.
{"title":"A Note from Joseph Meaney on Fifty Years of the NCBC","authors":"J. Meaney","doi":"10.5840/em20224712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em20224712","url":null,"abstract":"This article is taken from a letter written by Dr. Joseph Meaney, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center regarding the fiftieth anniversary of the Center’s founding. It discusses several issues in medical and scientific advancement, as well as their moral implications.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70893642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Vitro fertilization (IVF) is considered objectively immoral by the Catholic Church. However, there are several alternatives that have not been specifically addressed by the Church. This article discusses several of these alternatives and examines their viability from a moral standpoint. This is done with specific attention to fertility efforts used following uterus transplantation (UTx).
{"title":"An Ethical Analysis of IVF Alternatives after UTx","authors":"Andrew S. Kubick","doi":"10.5840/em20224711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em20224711","url":null,"abstract":"In Vitro fertilization (IVF) is considered objectively immoral by the Catholic Church. However, there are several alternatives that have not been specifically addressed by the Church. This article discusses several of these alternatives and examines their viability from a moral standpoint. This is done with specific attention to fertility efforts used following uterus transplantation (UTx).","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70893579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since their inception in 1948, The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) have guided Catholic health care ministries in the United States, aiding in the application of Catholic moral tradition to modern health care delivery. The ERDs have undergone two major revisions in that time, with about twenty years separating each revision. The first came in 1971 and the second came twenty-six years ago, in 1995. As such, a third major revision is due and will likely be undertaken soon.
{"title":"Revising the ERDs for the 21st Century","authors":"John F. Brehany","doi":"10.5840/em202146815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em202146815","url":null,"abstract":"Since their inception in 1948, The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) have guided Catholic health care ministries in the United States, aiding in the application of Catholic moral tradition to modern health care delivery. The ERDs have undergone two major revisions in that time, with about twenty years separating each revision. The first came in 1971 and the second came twenty-six years ago, in 1995. As such, a third major revision is due and will likely be undertaken soon.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43061725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ulpian was an influential name in the history of Roman law and beyond. His definition of Natural Law, while a source of some controversy in the thirteenth century, greatly influenced St. Thomas Aquinas’s own definition. This paper explores that influence, its origins, and its implications in Aquinas’s most famous writings.
{"title":"Ulpian’s Influence on Aquinas’s Natural Law","authors":"B. Guevin","doi":"10.5840/em202146816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em202146816","url":null,"abstract":"Ulpian was an influential name in the history of Roman law and beyond. His definition of Natural Law, while a source of some controversy in the thirteenth century, greatly influenced St. Thomas Aquinas’s own definition. This paper explores that influence, its origins, and its implications in Aquinas’s most famous writings.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43212006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At least one million human embryos are currently in cryopreservation in the United States alone. The Catholic Church expressly denounces this practice, but there is no satisfying solution. New arguments have arisen in the scientific community that these embryos should be made available for research, reflecting a utilitarian view of human life, which is counter to Catholic teaching on human dignity and must be resisted by the faithful. Instead, the solution to cryopreservation must respect the lives of these embryos and give others the opportunity to learn from and pray for them.
{"title":"Frozen Embryos Are Not Research Material","authors":"Derek McDonald","doi":"10.5840/em202146713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em202146713","url":null,"abstract":"At least one million human embryos are currently in cryopreservation in the United States alone. The Catholic Church expressly denounces this practice, but there is no satisfying solution. New arguments have arisen in the scientific community that these embryos should be made available for research, reflecting a utilitarian view of human life, which is counter to Catholic teaching on human dignity and must be resisted by the faithful. Instead, the solution to cryopreservation must respect the lives of these embryos and give others the opportunity to learn from and pray for them.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44826941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has created a paradox in the treatment of gender dysphoria, in part by redefining the disorder. The new definition implies that the individual’s body, not his or her mind, is disordered, regardless of whether the body shows any sign of abnormal development. Thus, the manual has created a situation where a perfectly healthy body is considered disordered, while a mind that perceives that healthy body to be wrongly sexed is considered healthy. This leads to erroneous and dangerous treatment of the individual.
{"title":"Philosophical Puzzles about Transgenderism","authors":"E. Furton","doi":"10.5840/em202146714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em202146714","url":null,"abstract":"The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has created a paradox in the treatment of gender dysphoria, in part by redefining the disorder. The new definition implies that the individual’s body, not his or her mind, is disordered, regardless of whether the body shows any sign of abnormal development. Thus, the manual has created a situation where a perfectly healthy body is considered disordered, while a mind that perceives that healthy body to be wrongly sexed is considered healthy. This leads to erroneous and dangerous treatment of the individual.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44109806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is the second part in an examination of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities. This installment explores the first section of the most recent edition of the ERDs, discussing what changes were made and why. It also discusses how the ERDs might change in the next edition and what issues will need to be addressed, as well as the best structure in which to present them.
{"title":"Reflections on Revising Part 1 of the ERDs","authors":"John F. Brehany","doi":"10.5840/em202146920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/em202146920","url":null,"abstract":"This article is the second part in an examination of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities. This installment explores the first section of the most recent edition of the ERDs, discussing what changes were made and why. It also discusses how the ERDs might change in the next edition and what issues will need to be addressed, as well as the best structure in which to present them.","PeriodicalId":81204,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and medics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70893528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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