Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1177/00243639231190134
Jean Baric-Parker
{"title":"Book Review: Bioethics for Nurses. A Christian Moral Vision by Alisha N. Mack and Charles C. Camosy","authors":"Jean Baric-Parker","doi":"10.1177/00243639231190134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231190134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49437794","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}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/00243639231162431
Charles S. Love
{"title":"“Just the Facts Ma’am”: Moral and Ethical Considerations for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and its Potential to Impact Patient Autonomy and Hope","authors":"Charles S. Love","doi":"10.1177/00243639231162431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231162431","url":null,"abstract":"Applying machine-based learning and synthetic cognition, commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI), to medicine intimates prescient knowledge. The ability of these algorithms to potentially unlock secrets held within vast data sets makes them invaluable to healthcare. Complex computer algorithms are routinely used to enhance diagnoses in fields like oncology, cardiology, and neurology. These algorithms have found utility in making healthcare decisions that are often complicated by seemingly endless relationships between exogenous and endogenous variables. They have also found utility in the allocation of limited healthcare resources and the management of end-of-life issues. With the increase in computing power and the ability to test a virtually unlimited number of relationships, scientists and engineers have the unprecedented ability to increase the prognostic confidence that comes from complex data analysis. While these systems present exciting opportunities for the democratization and precision of healthcare, their use raises important moral and ethical considerations around Christian concepts of autonomy and hope. The purpose of this essay is to explore some of the practical limitations associated with AI in medicine and discuss some of the potential theological implications that machine-generated diagnoses may present. Specifically, this article examines how these systems may disrupt the patient and healthcare provider relationship emblematic of Christ's healing mission. Finally, this article seeks to offer insights that might help in the development of a more robust ethical framework for the application of these systems in the future.","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135791842","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}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00243639231166812
Matthew Paul Schneider, LC
{"title":"Book Review: Teaching Students with Autism in a Catholic Setting by Lawrence R.","authors":"Matthew Paul Schneider, LC","doi":"10.1177/00243639231166812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231166812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41400688","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}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/00243639231165245
Kent Lasnoski
{"title":"The Moral Basis for the Adoption of Abandoned, Frozen Human Embryos.","authors":"Kent Lasnoski","doi":"10.1177/00243639231165245","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231165245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265385/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9656542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639231155313
Rashad Rehman
{"title":"\"Intersex\" Does not Violate the Sex Binary.","authors":"Rashad Rehman","doi":"10.1177/00243639231155313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231155313","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article supplements Julio Tuleda, Enrique Burguete, and Justo Aznar's \"The Vatican opinion on gender theory\" (<i>Linacre</i>). It supplements their article by providing a stronger argument for the thesis that \"intersex\" does not violate binary sex in human beings. In their response to Timothy F. Murphy's criticism of \"the Vatican's\" (rightfully corrected as the Magisterium of the Catholic Church's) position on the sex binary, they argue subsidiarily that \"intersex\" does not violate the sex binary. However, their argument against Murphy as stated is implausible; however, I provide a much stronger argument for their conclusion that intersex does not violate the sex binary. I intend to perform this supplementation in two stages, assuming the reader's familiarity with \"The Vatican opinion on gender theory.\" First, I provide a broader background than Murphy's to the challenge that \"intersex\" conditions violate the sex binary, showing both how Murphy's criticism is unoriginal and how \"intersex\" both has been, and continues to be, misunderstood. Second, I problematize Tuleda's argument, and offer the strongest argument for the conclusion that \"intersex\" does not violate the sex binary on purely secular/nonreligious grounds (addressing Murphy's complaint). I conclude that the Magisterium of the Catholic Church remains correct that sex is binary.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Julio Tuleda, Enrique Burguete, and Justo Aznar's \"The Vatican opinion on gender theory\" challenges Timothy Murphy's criticism of sex binarism as endorsed by the Catholic Church. This article strengthens their criticism by focusing on \"intersex\" conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265381/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10646876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639231165253
{"title":"Call for Papers Special Issue 2024: Doing No Harm","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639231165253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231165253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48983306","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}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/00243639231167235
Mary M Schneider, Richard J Fehring, Thomas Paul Bouchard
{"title":"Effectiveness of a Postpartum Breastfeeding Protocol for Avoiding Pregnancy.","authors":"Mary M Schneider, Richard J Fehring, Thomas Paul Bouchard","doi":"10.1177/00243639231167235","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231167235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The uses of cervical mucus and basal body temperature as indicators of return to fertility postpartum have resulted in high unintended pregnancy rates. In 2013, a study found that when women used urine hormone signs in a postpartum/breastfeeding protocol this resulted in fewer pregnancies. To improve the original protocol's effectiveness, three revisions were made: (1) women were to increase the number of days tested with the Clearblue Fertility Monitor, (2) an optional second luteinizing hormone test could be done in the evening, and (3) instructions were given to manage the beginning of the fertile window for the first six cycles postpartum. The purpose of this study was to determine the correct and typical use effectiveness rates to avoid pregnancy in women who used a revised postpartum/breastfeeding protocol. A cohort review of an established data set from 207 postpartum breastfeeding women who used the protocol to avoid pregnancy was completed using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Total pregnancy rates that included correct and incorrect use pregnancies were eighteen per one hundred women over twelve cycles of use. For the pregnancies that met a priori criteria, the correct use pregnancy rates were two per one hundred over twelve months and twelve cycles of use and typical use rates were four per one hundred women at twelve cycles of use. The protocol had fewer unplanned pregnancies than the original, however, the cost of the method increased.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265386/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10030411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}