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The Judicial Dismantling of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Authors: Gostin, Lawrence O.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the judicial dismantling of the American With Disabilities Act (ADAS) by the Rehnquist Court. Background on ADA; Decision of the court to narrow the definition of disability; Concepts from where the court based its inter...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:54

The Problem with Single-Payer Plans

Authors: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The author opposes the proposed adoption of a single-payer system of national health insurance in the U.S. He asserts that single payer is not the best health care reform option since it retains and solidifies the nineteenth century...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2008.0016

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:30

Permanent Birth Control for Drug Addicts

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The organization Children Requiring a Caring Community (C.R.A.C.K.) offers $200 for any drug addicted woman who is willing to undergo long-term or permanent birth control. The organization's goal is to prevent drug addicts from giv...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Birth%20Control%20for%20Drug%20Addicts.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-06 15:13

A Conflict Between Duty and Personal Belief

Authors: Brinkman, Anthony ; Anestidou, Lida ; Weigel, Christine ; Robert Ladenson ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1970, the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Joseph Califano, was put in charge drafting, issuing, and implementing regulations allowing for the use of Medicaid to fund abortions. Califano is a practicing...
Year: 2005
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Public%20Funding%20of%20Abortions.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-07 15:44

Employer Supplied Health Insurance

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Anestidou, Lida ; Leever, Martin ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Althaus, Ruth Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Costs to employers for providing comprehensive health benefits has risen 57% in the years 1999-2003. Both small and large companies are beginning to reduce insurance coverage, and as premiums and deductibles surge upwards, many low ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Employer%20Supplied%20Health%20Insurance.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-07 15:43

Malaria and DDT

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Anestidou, Lida
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While DDT is known to have toxic effects on both the environment and humans, it is also the most effective, cost efficient way of fighting malaria in countries in Africa. The United Nations Environmental Program is seeking to elimin...
Year: 2004
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Malaria%20and%20DDT.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-10 15:35

Lords of Creation

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Following heated debate, the British House of Lords passed the Human Fertalisation and Embryology Bill, which allows for the create of mixed human-animal embryos for medical research purposes. Supporters of this bill claim that due ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Lords%20Of%20Creation.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-14 11:55

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: Fear Factor or Fantasy Island?

Authors: Wilfond, Benjamin S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The author reflects on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). He claims that the U.S. legislation's implications would be difficult to determine because of various factors, including its scope's limitation to employme...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0077

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:42

Biological Terrorism

Authors: Providence College, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ; Cornely, Kathleen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anthrax-laced envelopes were mailed to individuals in government and the news media. Thousands were treated for exposure, a...
Year: 2005
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=188&id=188

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:46

Closing the Gap : Antiretroviral Therapy for the Developing World

Authors: Pals-Rylaarsdam, Robin ; Benedictine University, Department of Biological Science
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this problem-based learning/role playing case, students apply their knowledge of the biology of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy to developing foreign aid policy for the HIV/AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. The case was crea...
Year: 2003
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=426&id=426

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:46

Thalidomide

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In June of 1998 the Food and Drug Administration approved Thalidomide for use in the United States. Before this, in 1960, the FDA had banned the use of the drug even though it was widely used throughout the world as a sedative. Shor...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Thalidomide.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-07-01 11:25

Artificial Insemination for Mother on Welfare

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A woman comes to Dr. Arnold Franklin, an obstetrician, requesting artificial insemination by donor. After the procedure is finished and the woman becomes pregnant, Dr. Franklin finds out that his patient is receiving pregnancy welfa...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Artificial.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-07-08 14:49

Legal Requirement for Mentally Ill Patients to Take Medication

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1995, Michael Vernon killed five people entirely unknown to him in a shoe store in the Bronx, New York. Mr. Vernon had previously been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals. At th...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Medication%20.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-05 15:07

Delinquency or Mental Health Problem? The Case of Pablo Sanchez

Authors: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University ; Peterson-Iyer, Karen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case study, explores some of cultural issues that can arise when providing counseling services to individuals. In this case, a 14 year old boy whose mother is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is referred to a counselor by his ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-competent-care/mental-health.html

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-06-17 15:09

Pediatricians Asking Parents About Guns

Authors: Myers, Gretchen A. ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Potthast, Adam ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Florida recently passed the Privacy of Firearms Owners Act, which prohibits physicians and other healthcare providers from asking parents whether they own guns unless they have a good faith belief that the question is, "relevant to ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Pediatricians Asking Parents About Guns.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-09-09 13:05

Deadly Drug Run

Authors: Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Potthast, Adam ; Myers, Gretchen A. ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Beyond disputes about the legality of the death penalty, some states have had difficulty implementing the death penalty for more practical reasons - the primary lethal injection drug, barbiturate sodium thiopental (BST) has become s...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Deadly%20Drug%20Run.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-09-09 11:13

Case studies in public health ethics

Authors: Coughlin, Steven S.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume contains cases covering issues of privacy and confidentiality protection, informed consent in public health research, the ethics of randomized trials, vulnerable populations, genetic discrimination, AIDS prevention and t...
Year: 2009

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-10-07 15:22

Prison Break

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1994, the state of Missouri convicted Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys of robbery and sentenced them each to two life terms. The sisters denied any part in the ambush and $11.00 robbery of two men. Following a lengthy campaign t...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Prision%20Break.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-01-11 17:47

Injunction Preventing Protesters From Approaching an Individual Entering an Abortion Clinic

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This spring the United states Supreme Court will review the constitutionality, under the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, of an injunction, issued by a federal court in Buffalo, New York, directed at anti-abortion protestor...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Abortion%20Protesters.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-05 16:21

Medical Marijuana

Authors: Berrel, Annabel ; Potthast, Adam ; Bulger, Jeffrey W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This case study looks at the case Gonzales v. Raich in which the Supreme Court decreed that patients who possessed marijuana were liable to criminal prosecution by federal law enforcement, even if the drug had been prescribed by a p...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/CS-Medical%20Marijuana.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-10 11:04

Law Allowing Adopted Children to Find Out About Birth Parents

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1995 the state of Tennessee enacted a law that has become the subject of heated controversy, which allows individuals over the age of twenty one, who were adopted as children, to find out the names, addresses, and other informati...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Adoption.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-02 11:52

Regulating Fashion Models

Authors: Association of Practical and Professional Ethics ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Ross, Jeri ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 2006, under pressure from local Spanish governments, the organizers of Madrid Fashion Week banned models with a body mass index (BMI) under 18. The following year, the Italian fashion designers Prada, Versace, and Armani voluntar...
Year: 2013
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Regulating%20Fashion%20Models.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2013-01-10 11:14

Allotransplantation and the Affordable Care Act

Authors: Georgetown University Undergraduate Bioethics Society ; Whyte, Kyle ; Reider, Travis ; American Society for Bioethics + Humanities ; Nelson, James Lindemann ; Heurer, Kelly ; Henderson, Macey ; Hedahl, Marcus
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: See page 15 of PDF) Allotransplantation is the transplantation of the face, limbs, etc. These transplantations are usually not life-saving, but can have the result of bother altering the physical appearance of a patient as well as e...
Year: 2013
URL: http://nubc2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BB-Cases-Nos-1-14-Final.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2013-05-20 16:24

Maternity Hotels

Authors: Georgetown University Undergraduate Bioethics Society ; Whyte, Kyle ; Reider, Travis ; American Society for Bioethics + Humanities ; Nelson, James Lindemann ; Heurer, Kelly ; Henderson, Macey ; Hedahl, Marcus
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: (See page 14 of PDF) The U.S. born children of illegal aliens are eligable to sponsor extended famly members int othe country once they turn 21. In fact, an entire industry has been built up around the U.S. system of birthright citi...
Year: 2013
URL: http://nubc2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BB-Cases-Nos-1-14-Final.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2013-05-20 16:16

An Obligation to Adopt?

Authors: Henderson, Macey ; Heurer, Kelly ; Nelson, James Lindemann ; Hedahl, Marcus ; American Society for Bioethics + Humanities ; Reider, Travis ; Whyte, Kyle ; Georgetown University Undergraduate Bioethics Society
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: (See Page 3 of PDF) The earth's population recently passed 7 billion. Although no one knows exactly how many people the world can sustain, we do know that there are already far more people than could be supported at the level of the...
Year: 2013
URL: http://nubc2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BB-Cases-Nos-1-14-Final.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2013-05-20 14:23