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373Is There a Duty to Die?Hastings Center Report 27 (2): 34-42. 1997.When Richard Lamm made the statement that old people have a duty to die, it was generally shouted down or ridiculed. The whole idea is just too preposterous to entertain. Or too threatening. In fact, a fairly common argument against legalizing physician-assisted suicide is that if it were legal, some people might somehow get the idea that they have a duty to die. These people could only be the victims of twisted moral reasoning or vicious social pressure. It goes without saying that there is no …Read more
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93Dying at the right time: reflections on (un) assisted suicideIn Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), Ethics in Practice, Blackwell. 1997.
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71What About the Family?Hastings Center Report 20 (2): 5-10. 1990.The prevalent ethic of patient autonomy ignores family interests in medical treatment decisions. Acknowledging these interests as legitimate forces basic changes in ethical theory and the moral practice of medicine.
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11Privacy, Self-Knowledge And Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation To The Epistemology Of The Family'In Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. pp. 105--115. 1997.
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237Families and Futility: Forestalling Demands for Futile TreatmentJournal of Clinical Ethics 16 (4): 335-344. 2005.The most common approach to the problem of requests for futile treatment – the hospital futility policy – rests on the assumption that demands for futile treatment are both intractable and irrational. But there is another approach to the futility problem, an approach that would be dialogic, piecemeal, and case-by-case. This is the only approach that attempts to deal with both the hospital’s problem and the patient’s or family’s problem that motivates the request/demand for futile treatments. …Read more
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318Patient Informed Choice for AltruismCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23 (4): 397-402. 2014.Abstract:Respect for persons protects patients regarding their own healthcare decisions. Patient informed choice for altruism (PICA) is a proposed means for a fully autonomous patient with decisionmaking capacity to limit his or her own treatment for altruistic reasons. An altruistic decision could bond the patient with others at the end of life. We contend that PICA can also be an advance directive option. The proxy, family, and physicians must be reminded that a patient’s altruistic treatment …Read more
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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