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30Review of John H. Evans, The History and Future of Medical Ethics: A Sociological View (review)American Journal of Bioethics 13 (6): 58-59. 2013.It has been said that a good book reads you. And so it is with John H. Evans's The History and Future of Bioethics: A Sociological View. As a physician-ethicist I was fascinated by this sociologica...
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23Inching Toward Health Decision ExceptionalismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 13 (5): 18-19. 2013.No abstract
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Brain Injury and the Culture of Neglect: Musings on an Uncertain FutureSocial Research: An International Quarterly 78 (4): 731-746. 2011.Our essay will address both the right-to-die movement in America and the emerging culture of neglect in the treatment of a class of patients with disorders of consciousness with which the right-to-die movement is entwined. We trace the etiology of these two themes through changes in our scientific understanding of brain injury and recovery against a growing societal acculturation to dominion over one's self at life's end.
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3Guest Editorial: The Many Voices of Spanish Bioethics—An IntroductionCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (3): 214-217. 2009.Edmund Pellegrino noted that contemporary medicine is to a large extent a North American product, and so too is the ethics that accompanies it. This was an accurate observation back in the 1980s when he said it. Even today bioethics is to a considerable extent informed by the seminal works of the Anglo-American model, at least seen from the United States. The dissemination of ideas from the Spanish-speaking world has been nearly invisible to the English-speaking world of bioethics, isolated by l…Read more
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4On the Lingua Franca of Clinical EthicsJournal of Clinical Ethics 24 (4): 323-331. 2013.In this 25-year retrospective on the state of clinical ethics, and the anniversary of the founding of The Journal of Clinical Ethics, the author comments on the state of the field. He argues that the language of bioethics, as used in practice, seems dated and out of touch with a clinical reality marked by emerging technologies and the advent of new fields like palliative medicine.Reflecting on his experiences as a clinician and clinical ethicist, the author worries about the emergence of a shall…Read more
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31The economics of clinical ethics programs: a quantitative justificationCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (4): 451-. 1997.The restructuring of the healthcare marketplace has exerted pressure directly and indirectly on clinical ethics programs. The fiscal orientation and emphasis on efficiency, outcome measures, and cost control have made it increasingly difficult to communicate arguments in support of the existence or growth of ethics programs. In the current marketplace, arguments that rely on the claim that ethics programs protect patient rights or assist in the professional formation of practitioners often resul…Read more
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8Fee Disclosure at a CostHastings Center Report 44 (6): 3-3. 2014.A commentary on “Financial Side Effects: Why Patients Should Be Informed of Costs,” by Alicia Hall, in the May‐June 2014 issue.
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17The Face of FinitudeHastings Center Report 25 (2): 38-38. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: How We Die. By Sherwin B. Nuland. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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44The Ethical Imperative to Think about ThinkingCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23 (4): 386-396. 2014.Abstract:While the medical ethics literature has well explored the harm to patients, families, and the integrity of the profession in failing to disclose medical errors once they occur, less often addressed are the moral and professional obligations to take all available steps to prevent errors and harm in the first instance. As an expanding body of scholarship further elucidates the causes of medical error, including the considerable extent to which medical errors, particularly in diagnostics, …Read more
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