Religious Ethics and Medical Ethics

The Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanah – starts this evening, and the New York Times featured a front page article on “Bar Mitzvahs Get a New...

Should You Kill Your Disabled Child?

I've just read a remarkable book about this question:   Rescuing Jeffrey , by his father, Richard Galli. I got to the book via " C...

Ignoring Families Can be Fatal

Yesterday in Heathrow Airport on my way home from Singapore  I wrote a post about how US medical ethics ignores families and overemphasizes...

Western Bioethics Ignores the Family

At the end of my stay in Singapore I participated in a conference on " The Ethics of Family Involvement in Healthcare ," sponsored...