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25Mary HM Bach is a student in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, Seattle. Keith A. Bauer, MSW, is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy/Medical Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His dissertation addresses the ethics and social dimensions of home-based telemedicine, the use of infor (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 123-124. 2001.
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25G. H. Mead on Knowledge and ActionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 47 (n/a): 76-86. 1973.
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24Altruistic Organ Donation: On Giving a Kidney to a StrangerCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (3): 395-399. 2022.In the following interview, philosophers Leonard Fleck and Arthur Ward discuss the latter’s recent experience of being a nondirected kidney donor. The interview took place in the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice at Michigan State University.
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24Children and Organ Donation: Some Cautionary RemarksCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (2): 161-166. 2004.My task is to provide some critical commentary on the preceding essays. My unfortunate conclusion will be that the issues that are their primary focus are more likely to become more ethically intractable over the next several years as medicine progresses. I do not see any easy or obvious way to avoid this conclusion
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23Civil Disobedience and Moral Law in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy. By Edward H. Madden (review)Modern Schoolman 46 (4): 367-368. 1969.
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22Healthcare justice and rational democratic deliberationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (2). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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21First Come, First Served in the Intensive Care Unit: Always?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27 (1): 52-61. 2018.
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21Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well offJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (2): 156-171. 2011.What does it mean to be a “just” and “caring” society in meeting the health care needs of the terminally ill when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? This is the question that will be the focus of this essay. Another way of asking our question would be the following: Relative to all the other health care needs in our society, especially the need for lifesaving or life-prolonging health care, how high a priority ought the health care needs of persons who …Read more
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21The Great Awakening: How to Accomplish the Reform That Justice RequiresHastings Center Report 38 (2): 4-4. 2008.
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21Whoopie Pies, Supersized FriesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (1): 5-19. 2012.The annual cost of healthcare in the United States reached $2.5 trillion in 2009 (about 17.6% of GDP) with projections to 2019 of about $4.5 trillion (about 20% of likely GDP).
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21Abortion, Artificial Wombs, and the “No Difference” ArgumentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (5): 94-97. 2023.De Bie et al. (2023) call attention at the conclusion of their essay to the “novel questions” generated by complete ectogenesis. The question I explore is how complete ectogenesis from conception t...
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20Review of shlomi segall, Health, Luck, and Justice (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
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19Precision QALYs, Precisely UnjustCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (3): 439-449. 2019.Warwick Heale has recently defended the notion of individualized and personalized Quality-Adjusted Life Years in connection with health care resource allocation decisions. Ordinarily, QALYs are used to make allocation decisions at the population level. If a health care intervention costs £100,000 and generally yields only two years of survival, the cost per QALY gained will be £50,000, far in excess of the £30,000 limit per QALY judged an acceptable use of resources within the National Health Se…Read more
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19Critical Care Limits: What Is the Right Balance?American Journal of Bioethics 16 (1): 48-50. 2016.
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17Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked ProblemsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 33 (1): 1-4. 2024.What exactly is a “wicked problem”? It is a social or economic problem that is so complex and so interconnected with other issues that it is extraordinarily difficult or impossible to resolve. This is because all proposed resolutions generate equally complex, equally wicked problems. In this essay, I argue that precision medicine, especially in the context of the U.S. healthcare system, generates numerous wicked problems related to distributive justice. Further, I argue that there are no easy so…Read more
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16Full Reciprocity: An Essential Element for a Fair Opt-Out Organ Transplantation PolicyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (3): 310-320. 2022.In this paper, I argue for the following points. First, all of us have a presumptive moral obligation to be organ donors if we are in the relevant medical circumstances at the time of death. Second, family members should not have the right to interfere with the fulfillment of that obligation. Third, the ethical basis for that obligation is reciprocity. If we want a sufficient number of organs available for transplantation, then all must be willing donors. Fourth, that likelihood is diminished if…Read more
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15MiscellaneousHastings Center Report 32 (2): 35-36. 2012.It's not only necessary, but possible, if the public can be educated.
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15Despairing about Health DisparitiesHastings Center Report 47 (5): 43-44. 2017.I have never doubted that the problem of inequalities in health status and access to needed care is a difficult ethical and political challenge. After reading the essays in Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations across the Disciplines, edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca Walker, I concluded that despair was the only suitable response in the face of daunting ethical and political complexity. The editors of this volume have three questions in mind …Read more
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14ECMO: What Would a Deliberative Public Judge?American Journal of Bioethics 23 (6): 46-48. 2023.I fundamentally agree with Childress et al. (2023) in the scenario they have constructed with Mr. J. None of the arguments they critically assess are ethically persuasive enough to justify removing...
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14Just caring: screening needs limitsJournal of Medical Ethics 46 (4): 253-254. 2020.This personal narrative tugs at the heart strings. However, personal narratives are not sufficient to justify public funding for any screening policy. We have to take seriously the ‘just caring’ problem. We have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs. No doubt, screening tests often save lives. The author wants public funding for prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer. However, why only prostate cancer? Numerous cancers at various stages can be scre…Read more
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13The Price of Compromise: The Massachusetts Health Care ReformHastings Center Report 37 (1): 4. 2007.
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13Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome?In Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Oup Usa. pp. 446. 2002.
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13MiscellaneousHastings Center Report 32 (2): 35-36. 2002.It's not only necessary, but possible, if the public can be educated.
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