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6Logicality and Regulatory Ethics: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectHastings Center Report 44 (4): 13-17. 2014.
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26“Humanities are the Hormones:” Osler, Penfield and “Neuroethics” RevisitedAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (1): 5-8. 2008.If ever I summon before me my highest ideals of men and medicine, I find them sprung from the spirit of Osler. —Wilder Penfield, M.D. Neuroethics is a recently coined term that is shaping our cultu...
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51The Humanities and the Future of Bioethics EducationCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (4): 518-521. 2010.Let’s face it, the humanities are in trouble. Last year, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas H. Benton warned prospective graduate students to avoid doctoral studies in the humanities. His rationale: a job market down 40%, the improbability of tenure, the more certain prospect of life as an adjunct, and eventual outright exile from one’s chosen field. Benton, the pen name of William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, pulled no punches. H…Read more
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63The Self, Social Media, and Social ConstructionAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (10): 38-39. 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 10, Page 38-39, October 2012
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99Clinical pragmatism: A method of moral problem solvingKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 (2): 129-143. 1997.: This paper presents a method of moral problem solving in clinical practice that is inspired by the philosophy of John Dewey. This method, called "clinical pragmatism," integrates clinical and ethical decision making. Clinical pragmatism focuses on the interpersonal processes of assessment and consensus formation as well as the ethical analysis of relevant moral considerations. The steps in this method are delineated and then illustrated through a detailed case study. The implications of clinic…Read more
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23A Surgeon's DilemmaHastings Center Report 46 (3): 9-10. 2016.A thirty-year-old single mother with recurrent, metastatic, treatment-refractory cancer presents to the emergency room with severe difficulty breathing due to an obstructive tumor in her neck, compounded by progressive disease in her lungs and a new pulmonary embolism. She cannot be safely intubated and would require an emergent awake tracheotomy. Even if the airway can be successfully secured surgically, the likelihood that she will be able to be weaned from mechanical ventilation is very low. …Read more
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83Islam and Informed Consent: Notes from DohaCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (3): 273-279. 2008.Informed consent is a perennial topic in bioethics. It has given the field a place in clinical practice and the law and is often the starting point for introductory instruction in medical ethics. One would think that nearly everything has been said and done on this well-worn topic
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76Neuroethics and neuroimaging: Moving toward transparencyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (9). 2008.Without exaggeration, it could be said that we are entering a golden age of neuroscience. Informed by recent developments in neuroimaging that allow us to peer into the working brain at both a structural and functional level, neuroscientists are beginning to untangle mechanisms of recovery after brain injury and grapple with age-old questions about brain and mind and their correlates neural mechanisms and consciousness. Neuroimaging, coupled with new diagnostic categories and assessment scales a…Read more
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31Everyday DisastersCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (2): 207-213. 2005.“That's my dad on the floor.”And there he was unconscious in a pool of blood in the bathroom. A paramedic who had accompanied him to the john was holding him off the ground, the USMC tattoo on his forearm cradling his head. My sister shrieked, and I went down on my knees to see about his airway. “We need a doctor here. Cardiac Team!” Could this really be happening to him? To us? Jesus Christ
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50In Praise of the Humanities in Academic MedicineCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (4): 355-364. 2013.
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