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5Acupuncture and Expertise: A Challenge to Physician ControlHastings Center Report 11 (2): 5-7. 1981.
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8The Role of Institutional and Community Based Ethics Committees in the Debate on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted SuicideCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (1): 121. 1996.In many countries the debate over the role that physicians may play in ending life has been limited to the judiciary and other law making institutions, professional medical organizations; and academics. Because of their multidisciplinary and diverse membership, ethics committees may be a particularly appropriate venue through which these discussions can be expanded to include a much larger community. In addition, ethics committees generally act in only advisory capacities because they do not act…Read more
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20The Caduceus in court: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in The NetherlandsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4 (1): 111. 1995.As ethics committees become involved in discussing the propriety of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and as healthcare providers begin to seriously consider whether they might ever have a role in hastening the dying process, many have looked to The Netherlands as the only real example of a nation that permits euthanasia in limited circumstances. Unfortunately, partisans in the Dutch debate have often written about the Dutch experience as advocates rather than as neutral observers. Some have argu…Read more
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8Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the Australian Northern TerritoryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (1): 157. 1996.Over the past year the debate over physician-assisted death has been waged in several courts and legislatures, and before at least one electorate as well. Measure 16, the Oregon Death With Dignity initiative that would permit physician-assisted suicide in some circumstances, was approved by the electorate; but it remains on hold while a permanent injunction issued against it by a Federal judge is reviewed by the United States Court of Appeals. Another Federal court judge's decision that the Wash…Read more
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12Ethics Committees at Work: Physician Experience as a Measure of Competency: Implications for Informed ConsentCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (3): 458. 1996.The following description is based upon an actual case in which a patient initiated legal action after suffering a complication subsequent to an invasive diagnostic procedure performed by a senior fellow. Named as codefendants were the senior fellow, attending physician, and the hospital. Because any hospital with house staff is potentially vulnerable to similar litigation, Ethics Committees at Work is addressing the questions raised by this dilemma
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16Everything You Always Wanted to Ask a Lawyer about Ethics CommitteesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1 (1): 33. 1992.It should come as no surprise that we will get three different answers to the same question since we have three lawyers on the panel. The law is a matter of policy, and there is usually no single “right” answer to these questions. Each lawyer will come to a question from a very different perspective and bring a different approach to the answer
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6The risks of reducing consciousness to neuroimagingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (9). 2008.No abstract
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2The professor is excusedAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (4). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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1Looking into Pictures (edited book)MIT Press. 2003.Interdisciplinary explorations of the implications of recent developments in vision theory for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and ...
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University of Abertay DundeeUndergraduate
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