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August 15, 2008: MY MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER by Dennis McCollough, M.D
My vision of better care for elders in late life is not a call for a nostalgic return to some imagined romantic past when the lone family doctors sat by the bedside by candlelight tending the ill.
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August 15, 2008: Dr. Dennis McCullough
Read a Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly e-mail interview with Dr. Dennis McCullough, author of MY MOTHER, YOUR MOTHER: EMBRACING SLOW MEDICINE, THE COMPASSIONATE APPROACH TO CARING FOR YOUR AGING LOVED ONES.
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August 15, 2008: Slow Medicine
Some doctors are proposing that their patients consider what's being called "slow medicine," that is, trying to let nature take its course rather than aggressively fighting the ravages that sometimes accompany old age.
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August 8, 2008: Ethics of Health Care Rationing
Eighty-two percent of Americans said the U.S. health care system should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. But how to do it?
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August 1, 2008: Christian Science Healing
Membership in the church has declined in recent decades, but some Christian Science practitioners, as they are known, still treat large numbers of people through spiritual healing.
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January 11, 2008: Dr. Ben Carson
Ben Carson knows a lot about risk. As one of the leading pediatric neurosurgeons in the world, Carson makes life and death decisions nearly every day.
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September 21, 2007: The Soul of a Doctor
Read Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly’s web-only interview with Vincent Lam, a Canadian doctor and writer whose acclaimed first book, BLOODLETTING & MIRACULOUS CURES (Weinstein Books, 2007), was awarded the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction.
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August 17, 2007: Genetic Enhancement
Parents want to do whatever is possible to make their children healthy. But what about going beyond health to enhancement, making kids bigger or smarter or more talented? Science is opening that door in a big way, and many ethicists debate where the line between health and enhancement should be. Kim Lawton has our story.
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August 17, 2007: Michael Sandel
Read R & E producer Susan Grandis Goldstein’s June 5, 2007 interview with Michael Sandel in Washington, D.C.
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August 17, 2007: Gregory Stock
Read Kim Lawton's interview with Gregory Stock, CEO of Signum Biosciences and director of the Medicine, Technology, and Society Program at the UCLA School of Medicine.
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