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- Centering Bioethics
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Authors: Chambers, Tod
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on books about bioethics. `Moral Choices,' by Ruth Macklin; `The New Medicine and the Old ethics,' by Albert Jonsen; `The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning,' by Jonsen and Toulmin; `The Wounded Storyteller,' b...
Year: 2000Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:28
- Resolution and Ambivalence
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Authors: Ganzini, Linda ; Cohen, Lewis M. ; Colter, Miriam
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study on patient decision-making regarding dialysis discontinuation. Details of the case; Reasons of patients for choosing to discontinue dialysis treatment....
Year: 2000Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:09
- The Ecomedical Disconnection Syndrome
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Authors: Whitehouse, Peter J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on Hastings Center's project in environmental ethics, called Nature, Polis, and Ethics: Chicago Regional Planning. Central weakness of the project in contemporary bioethics; Principal purpose of the project; Factors that led...
Year: 1999Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:06
- One more pelvic exam
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Authors: Rothenstein, Julie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study concerning the dilemma of medical practitioners of subjecting patients to multiple tests without prior consent. Tests of gynecological condition of sedated patient; Comment by James Dwyer on the need to humaniz...
Year: 1993Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 11:16
- For the benefit of all
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study of a physician's recommendation for a patient to undergo cancer risk assessment and counseling due to a family history of cancer. Genetic susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer; Linkage analysis in extende...
Year: 1993Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 11:16
- But is it assisted suicide?
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Authors: Viederman, Milton ; Fins, Joseph J. ; Nelson, James Lindemann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study and commentaries dealing with assisted suicide. Suicide attempt by an eighty-year-old woman; Question about the removal of the victim's ventilator; Removal of ventilator as symbolic completion of suicide; Conce...
Year: 1995Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:05
- Reading between the Lines
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Authors: Prasad, Kiran
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study on the problems of direct-to-consumer advertising related to genetic testing. Overstatement and misrepresentation; Omission; False expectations implied to consumers....
Year: 2001Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:10
- Should we protect families from patients?
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study of a 23 year old woman diagnosis with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), highlighting methods used to minimize the incidence of communicable diseases. Diagnosis of the patient; Reaction of the patient's family...
Year: 1998Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:07
- For love or money
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Authors: Friend, Melinda ; Vollman, Jochen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study on whether or not a monetary incentive to prolong life plays a vital role in a physician's treatment decision for a patient with CMV ventriculitis. Justification for transferring care of the patient to another ...
Year: 1995Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:05
- An alert and incompetent self
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents case studies on the treatment given to patients by their family care physicians. Indepth look at a seventy three year old woman who died after being removed from a hospital ventilator; Information on the legal rights of pat...
Year: 1998Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:07
- The tracheostomy tube
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Authors: Smith, Joanne ; Donnelley, Strachan ; Kirschner, Kristi L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study showing ethical dilemmas in medicine, science, the social science and public policy. Replacement of tracheostomy tube....
Year: 1994Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:05
- When is home care medically necessary?
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Authors: Daniels, Norman ; Sabin, James F. ; Forrow, Lachlan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents the case study of an elderly woman and related commentaries involving the issue of determining when home care services are `medically necessary.' Optima HMO contract; Congestive heart failure; Two opposing views on the case...
Year: 1991Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 12:54
- Maternal rights, fetal harms
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Authors: Strong, Carson ; Kinlaw, Kathy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study of a 22-year-old woman whose fetus was found to have hydrocephalus, an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain. Approaches considered in placement of a ventriculo-amnioti...
Year: 1991Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 12:52
- Doctors of Interrogation
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Authors: Marks, Jonathan H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the involvement of physicians in governmental investigations. Contours of physician participation in interrogation; Protections that the Geneva Conventions give to detainees; Principle of medical ethics adopted by the Uni...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0044Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:20
- One Loss May Hide Another
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Authors: Levine, Carol
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents an article about the sufferings of a wife in caring for his husband who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. Details of the patient's clinical condition; Psychological aspects of living with disabilities; Financial asp...
Year: 2004Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:15
- Unanswered Questions: Bioethics and Human Relationships
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Authors: Cassell, Eric J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay is presented about bioethics and formation of interpersonal relationships within the field of medicine. The author recounts his inaugural experience in bioethics. He explains how bioethics changed the practice of medicine. ...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0066Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:27
- Protection of Human Subjects and Scientific Progress: Can the Two Be Reconciled?
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Authors: Glass, Kathleen Cranley ; Dresser, Rebecca ; Resnik, David B. ; Sodeke, Stephen Olufemi ; Jansen, Lynn A. ; Faust, Halley S ; King, Nancy M. P ; Orentlicher, David ; Herrera, C.D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a response by Lynn Jansen to a letter to the editor about her article on the ethical issues related to therapy-research....
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0007Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:01
- Wissenschaft as Personal Experience
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a vision of a scientifically but technologically cautious bioethics....
Year: 2002Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:11
- The chief of medicine
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Authors: Brody, Howard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents an excerpt from the book `The Healer's Power,' by Howard Brody....
Year: 1991Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 12:53
- Individual Responsibility for Health
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Authors: Yoder, Scot D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on an individual's responsibility for health. Importance of information about health and illness; Implications of understanding causes of illness....
Year: 2002Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:09
- Personalized Medicine's Ragged Edge
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Authors: Fleck, Leonard M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The author expresses his views on issues of justice raised by personalized medicine in the U.S. in 2010. According to The Hastings Center co-founder Daniel Callahan, ragged edge was a problem of medical advancement 20 years ago and ...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2010.0005Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:31
- Cosmetic Surgery in Children with Cognitive Disabilities: Who Benefits? Who Decides?
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Authors: Opel, Douglas J. ; Wilfond, Benjamin S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay that discusses real-life examples of cosmetic surgery in cognitively impaired children is presented. It addresses whether different ethical standards should be used when considering cosmetic surgery in children with develop...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0099Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:38
- Respecting Children with Disabilities--and Their Parents
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Authors: Parens, Erik
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay that offers some advice to parents of children with profound cognitive impairments who are considering cosmetic surgery is presented. It cites the case of six-year-old Ashley, who has profound cognitive disabilities and who...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0100Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:38
- "It's Against Nature."
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Authors: Kaebnick, Gregory E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay about the "against nature" objection to the intervention case involving Ashley, a six-year-old child who has cognitive impairment and whose parents asked a hospital to perform unusual procedures on her, is presented. Accord...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0101Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:34
- The brave new world of animal biotechnology
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Authors: McCarthy, Charles R. ; Donnelley, Strachan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses fundamental philosophic and ethical problems raised in the developments in animal biotechnology, as reported by the Hastings Center. Technical considerations and applications in transgenic organisms; Ethical reflections fr...
Year: 1994Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:37
