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John Paul Slosar

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Discontinuing implantable cardiac devices & the ERDs.

Ethics committees are use [sic] to questions concerning the withdrawal of life-support. Such questions become increasingly complex when that life-support is implantable, like a pacemaker. This essay seeks to address the question of under what, if any, circumstances it would be permissible to discontinue the use of such implantable devices.

Catholicism↗

Ethical issues in genetic testing.

Genetic testing is becoming ever more prevalent in the post-genome project practice of medicine. Subsequently, genetic testing for disorders lacking any therapeutic interventions is also becoming more prevalent. This article will examine some of the ethical challenges raised by our ability to know but not to cure.

Genetic Counseling↗