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19The Opportunities and Challenges for Shared Decision-Making in the Rural United StatesHEC Forum 27 (2): 157-170. 2015.The ethical standard for informed consent is fostered within a shared decision-making process. SDM has become a recognized and needed approach in health care decision-making. Based on an ethical foundation, the approach fosters the active engagement of patients, where the clinician presents evidence-based treatment information and options and openly elicits the patient’s values and preferences. The SDM process is affected by the context in which the information exchange occurs. Rural settings ar…Read more
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15Applying the Peter Parker Principle to HealthcareCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 33 (2): 271-274. 2024.The role of power in healthcare can raise many ethical challenges. Power is ownership, whether given, ceded, or taken of another person’s autonomy. When a person has power over someone else, they can control or strongly influence the decision-making freedom of that person. From the principalist perspective1,2 of healthcare ethics, denying a person their freedom to choose, should only occur when justifying conditions related to beneficence and nonmaleficence are sufficiently satisfied. In healthc…Read more
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11Organizational Ethics in Healthcare: A National SurveyHEC Forum 1-12. forthcoming.Organizational ethics—defined as the alignment of an institution’s practices with its mission, vision, and values—is a growing field in health care not well characterized in empirical literature. To capture the scope and context of organizational ethics work in United States healthcare institutions, we conducted a nationwide convenience survey of ethicists regarding the scope of organizational ethics work, common challenges faced, and the organizational context in which this work is done. In thi…Read more
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10Huntington on democratic politics: A review of american politics: The promise of disharmony (review)Philosophy and Public Affairs 13 (1): 89-98. 1984.
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |