Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors By Noreen Johnson, M.D., and Haywood Robinson, M.D. Kolbe & Anthony, 2023. Hardcover, 216 pages, $24.95. Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine...
How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death By Ewan C. Goligher, MD. Lexham Press, 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $ 18.99. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Why not let patients determine whether to die at the hand of a physician? Ewan...
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pegasus Books, 2022. Hardcover, 496 pages, $32. Reviewed by Karl C. Shaffenburg The inscription on Dr. Thomas Helling’s book, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia by Henry Jay Przybylo, MD. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26. Reviewed by Jacob A. Bruggeman On occasion, one can come upon good books by coincidence. An offhand recommendation from a...