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A Place for Grief Paul Lauritzen Why we still need graveyards I have always enjoyed walking in cemeteries. They can be places of serenity where it is possible to escape the noise of...

Medicalizing prolonged grief (July 2024)

Charles Cottet, Mourning in Ouessant, 1903 One Year to Mourn Paul Lauritzen and Mathew A. Crawford Should grief be considered a medical disorder? In March 2022, the American Psychiatric...

End-of-life dreams and visions (April 2023)

Final Visions Paul Lauritzen A hospice doctor makes sense of end-of-life dreams. In April 2018, my wife of thirty-eight years died from complications of ovarian cancer. During her...

Future Humans (March 2017)

Paul Lauritzen Oh the Places We'll Go Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution Scott Solomon Yale University Press, $27, 240 pp. This August, the National Institutes of...

'lawful but Awful' (January 2015)

‘Lawful but Awful’ The Moral Perils of Drone Warfare Paul Lauritzen This past summer the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to global security, issued the report of its task force...

Covenant Keeper (February 2013)

ARTICLES Covenant Keeper William F. May & the Crisis of Bioethics Paul Lauritzen I have had the good fortune to know a number of fine fiction writers over the years, and to a man (or woman) they...

The History And Future Of Bioethics (November 2012)

Paul Lauritzen Contested Norms The History and Future of Bioethics A Sociological View John H. Evans Oxford University Press, $45, 199 pp. In a recent New York Times piece, the philosopher...

Humming With Mystery (April 2011)

Humming with Mystery Synthetic Biology & Playing God Paul Lauritzen When President Barack Obama announced an executive order creating a Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, he said, "As...

A Rich Bioethics (December 2010)

Paul Lauritzen Heroes & Villains A Rich Bioethics Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council Adam Briggle University of Notre Dame Press, $30, 240 pp. In the apocalyptic closing lines...

Intellectual Street Fighter (May 2010)

Article Intellectual Street Fighter Gilbert Meilaender's Ethics of the Everyday Paul Lauritzen If you work in bioethics, are of a certain age, and have a degree from the University of Virginia,...

Three Generations,No Imbeciles & In Reckless Hands (April 2009)

I n 1924, Carrie Buck was seventeen years old, unwed, and pregnant. The man who had raped and impregnated her was the nephew of her foster parents. Fearing the consequences of his actions, both for...

Outwitting Cancer: The ethics of oncofertility treatments (February 2009)

Outwitting Cancer The Ethics of Oncofertility Treatments Paul Lauritzen 0 E E U U John Carroll University. Recently I was asked to serve on an advisory committee of a research group...

The Case against Perfection (February 2008)

Paul Lauritzen cal characteristics for themselves.” But, of course, none of us chooses our genetic inheritance and so cloning does not rob Unintelligent Design a child of some bit of autonomy...

Student Soldiers (September 2007)

Student Soldiers Is There Room for ROTC on Catholic Campuses? Paul Lauritzen Last year some renegade members of the prolife group at John Carroll University, where I teach, placed signs...

Daniel Callahan & Bioethics (June 2007)

Articles Daniel Callahan & Bioethics Where the Best Arguments Take Him Paul Lauritzen i @ I n the summer of 2003, the renowned bioethicist Daniel CaUahan testified before President George...

14 Holy Alliance?: Politics & "culture of life" rhetoric (March 2006)

The Annunciation Once said and the seed implanted, where did the angel go? It could not stay no matter how the arch of roses and the amaryllis in the brown pot drew its eyes away from paradise...

Caring at the End (March 2006)

Loose Stone in the Compass How traveling takes the eyes put them in every tree, furrow road sign, passenger's glance till it all tenses into a forest, a forest of tight nights childish fear,...

Catholics & IVF (August 2005)

It3 .< Paul Lauritzen Catholics & IVF THE NEXT BIG BATTLEGROUND? F or several years I have used a cartoon m ray course on the ethics of reproductive technology that depicts protestors in...

Preaching Eugenics by Christine Rosen (May 2004)

TALLER, SMARTER, PRETTIER Preaching Eugenics Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement Christine Rosen Paul Lauritzen Dn a wonderful essay whose title, "Sorry, But Your Soul Just...

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Lawler, Justus George

Lawlor, Gail M.

Lawrence, Emeric A.

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