Bioethics

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a design for a four-hour workshop intended for those who serve as hospital trustees, hospital executives and health care professionals with an interest in ethics and contemporary problems of health care governance and manag...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Scofield, Giles ; Wasserman, Lloyd ; Dwyer, James
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents views on the termination of the life-sustaining treatment. Factors to consider in the termination of the life-support system; Information on the law that governs the termination decision; Ethical issues raised in relation t...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Sheldon, Mark ; Wells, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines a medical case involving a Southeast Asian boy undergoing hemodialysis treatment in the United States, whose parents express distrust on medical personnel and prefers alternative healing instead. Medical history of the pati...
Year: 2000

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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: 2000

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Authors: Brusa, Marghuerita ; Clark, Peter A. ; Cobbs, Lauren S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents commentaries on a case of a girl who was diagnosed with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia and on the ethical obligation of the hospital which admitted the girl. Details on the case of the girl; Views of Lauren Cobbs on ...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Chevrolet, Jean-Claude ; Elger, Bernice S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: A case study focusing on considering the autonomy of patients in making treatment decisions. A woman is admitted to the hospital and found to have a tumor in her throat that is incurable, and the doctors debate whether to wake the w...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Waxse, David J. ; Yeast, John ; Blacksher, Erika
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents the case of couple Jerry and Sandy Wilson wherein Jerry was tested HIV positive prior to their marriage. Advice sought by the couple with maternal-fetal medicine specialist to determine the risk of infection to Sandy from u...
Year: 2000

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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Cells from a dying patient are used to create a multi-billion-dollar drug....
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/LastRites.aspx

Authors: Amari-Vaught, Eileen ; Vaught, Wayne
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Presents a case study discussing the moral responsibility of family caregivers in making decisions for the patient's medical care. Conflict of caregiver's interest with the physician's interest in keeping the patient's decision-maki...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Spiegel, David ; Whitney, Simon N.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Explains the responsibility of physicians to inform patients of their medical conditions through a case example. Analysis of the case; Discussion on disclosure; Information on therapeutic privilege as an exception to the rules of di...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Asch, Adrienne ; Parens, Erik
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Talks about the international project undertaken on gene therapy which aimed to identify and correct the sequences associated with disease and disability. Criticisms on prenatal diagnosis and abortion based on disability; Discussion...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Capron, Morgan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the debate between supporters and opponents of the death penalty in California. The Harris case; Governor Pete Wilson; Maternal-fetal conflict; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Drug Abuse; Insanity Defense; Whom to blame and how; C...
Year: 1992

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Authors: Lane, Sandra D. ; Rubinstein, Robert A. ; Maklin, Ruth ; Miller, Frank ; Kessel, Ross
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Year: 1997

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Authors: Cowart, Dax ; Burt, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents information on the Heather Koller Memorial Lecture delivered jointly by Dax Cowart and Robert Burt at the Pacific Lutheran University on 21 November 1996. Details on the critical injuries sustained by Cowart in a propane ga...
Year: 1998

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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the challenges clinicians face in helping patients understand the nature of multiple genetic tests. Definition of multiple genetic testing; Insight into implications of genetic tests; Information on the unique and differe...
Year: 1998

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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: 1998

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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: 1995

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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: 1995

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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: 1998

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Authors: Rothstein, Julie ; Dwyer, James
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: 1993

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Authors: Durfy, Sharon J. ; Peters, June A.
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: 1993

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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study involving a 35-year-old premenopausal woman who was diagnosed five years previously with inflammatory ductal carcinoma of the left breast. The chemotherapy which caused the woman to stop ovulating; The infertil...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Daniels, Norman
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Introduces a symposium based on Norman Daniels' presentation to the inaugural congress of the International Asociation of Bioethics, `Four Unsolved Rationing Problems,' with responses from Frances Kamm, Eric Rakowski, John Broome an...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Frost, Norman ; Purdy, Laura M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study involving the question of sustaining a postmortem pregnancy of a fifteen-week fetus when the putative father and the girl's parents disagree. Maintenance of life support system for a few days to give time for d...
Year: 1994

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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: 1994

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