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20Beneficence and Wellbeing: A Critical AppraisalAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (3): 65-68. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 65-68.
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16The ethical concept of medicine as a profession discovery or invention?Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (12): 786-787. 2019.Rosamond Rhodes makes a persuasive case for the view that medical ethics does not derive from common morality.1 Rhodes identifies the challenge that immediately arises and its corollary: Whence the origin of medical ethics? And, should we understand medical ethics as autonomous? From the perspective of professional ethics in medicine, the first question can now be restated: Whence the origin of the ethical concept of medicine as a profession, the basis of the ethical obligations of physicians in…Read more
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8Physicians’ Professionally Responsible Power: A Core Concept of Clinical EthicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy. 2015.
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13Cases in Bioethics from the Hastings Center ReportHastings Center Report 13 (5): 42. 1983.Book reviewed in this article: In That Case: Medical Ethics in Everyday Practice. By Alastair Campbell and Roger Higgs. Medical Genetics Casebook: A Clinical Introduction to Medical Ethics Systems Theory. By Colleen D. Clements. Cases in Bioethics from the Hastings Center Report. Edited by Carol Levine and Robert M. Veatch. Hastings‐on‐Hudson.
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19Case Studies in Bioethics: Is a Crisis of Conscience a Medical Problem?Hastings Center Report 6 (3): 26. 1976.
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23Ethics in Obstetrics and GynecologyHastings Center Report 26 (2): 45. 1996.Book reviewed in this article: Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology. By Laurence B. McCullough and Frank A. Chervenak.
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14Long Term Health Care: Providing a Spectrum of Services to the AgedHastings Center Report 19 (5): 45. 1989.Book reviewed in this article: Long Term Care: Principles, Programs and Policies. By Rosalie A. Kane and Robert L. Kane. Long Term Health Care: providing a Spectrum of Services to the Aged. By Philip W. Brickner, Anthony J. Lechich, Roberta Lipsman, and Linda K. scharer.
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16Getting Past Words: Futility and the Professional Ethics of Life-Sustaining TreatmentPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (3): 319-327. 2018.In this issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Schneiderman and colleagues critique a recent multi-society policy statement—developed by the American Thoracic Society and endorsed by four other organizations—entitled “Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatment in Intensive Care Units”. The focus of Schneiderman’s critique is the Multiorganization Policy Statement’s choice of the term “potentially inappropriate” to describe a class of interventions that clinicians shou…Read more
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4Historical Dictionary of Medical EthicsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2018.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Medical Ethics contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on ethical reasoning and its key components; medical ethics, professional medical ethics, and bioethics; and topics in clinical ethics.
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The Early Philosophy of Leibniz on Individuation: A Study of the "Disputatio Metaphysica de Principio Individui" of 1663Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1975.
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14Surgical EthicsOxford University Press USA. 1998.This is the first textbook of surgical ethics. It is a practical, clinically comprehenive, well-organized guide to ethical issues in surgical practice, research, and education written by leading figures in surgery and bioethics. The authors cover the surgeon-patient relationship, the full range of surgical patients, surgical education and research, and surgery and managed care. Their chapters are not abstract discussions of ethical principles; rather, they connect directly with the everyday conc…Read more
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18" Recovering the Traditions: Religious Perspectives in Medical EthicsChristian Bioethics 1 (2): 247. 1995.
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The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth-century BritainIn Robert B. Baker & Laurence B. McCullough (eds.), The Cambridge world history of medical ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 403--413. 2008.
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28Responsibly counselling women about the clinical management of pregnancies complicated by severe fetal anomaliesJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (7): 397-398. 2012.Heuser, Eller and Byrne provide important descriptive ethics data about how physicians counsel women on the clinical management of pregnancies complicated by severe fetal anomalies. The authors present an account of what such counselling ought to be based on, the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient and the professional responsibility model of obstetric ethics. When there is certainty about the diagnosis and either a very high probability of either death as the outcome of the anomaly or sur…Read more
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24Laying medicine open: Understanding major turning points in the history of medical ethicsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 9 (1): 7-23. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Laying Medicine Open: Understanding Major Turning Points in the History of Medical EthicsLaurence B. McCullough (bio)AbstractAt different times during its history medicine has been laid open to accountability for its scientific and moral quality. This phenomenon of laying medicine open has sometimes resulted in major turning points in the history medical ethics. In this paper, I examine two examples of when the laying open of medicin…Read more
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46Thought-styles, diagnosis, and concepts of disease: Commentary on Ludwik FleckJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 6 (3): 257-262. 1981.THIS PAPER IS A COMMENTARY ON LUDWIK FLECK'S ESSAY ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WHAT HE CALLS "THOUGHT-STYLES" AND SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL CONCEPTS. THE IDEA OF A "THOUGHT-STYLE" APPLIED TO CONCEPTS OF DISEASE IS THAT THEY ARE NOT ONLY VALUE-LADEN IN THE SENSE OF INCLUDING NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS. THEY ALSO EMBRACE BROAD SOCIAL FACTORS, AS WELL. I ARGUE THAT THOUGHT-STYLES SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD TO BE "OPEN-TEXTURED," ADMITTING A PLURALITY OF VALUE CONSIDERATIONS TO CONCEPTS OF DISEASE.
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45AJOB Empirical Bioethics: A Home for Empirical Bioethics ScholarshipAJOB Empirical Bioethics 5 (1): 1-2. 2014.
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22Clinical Management of Brain Death during PregnancyJournal of Clinical Ethics 4 (4): 349-350. 1993.
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20Holding the present and future accountable to the past: History and the maturation of clinical ethics as a field of the humanitiesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 25 (1). 2000.Clinical ethics, like bioethics more generally, until recently has tended to focus on the present and future, with little attention to the history of moral thought about health care that preceded bioethics. As a consequence, clinical ethics and bioethics lack maturity as fields of the humanities. The papers in this year's clinical ethics issue of the Journal put contemporary clinical ethics in critical dialogue with the past, making the former accountable to the latter. The six papers in this is…Read more
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33Physicians’ Professionally Responsible Power: A Core Concept of Clinical EthicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 41 (1): 1-9. 2016.The gathering of power unto themselves by physicians, a process supported by evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, licensure, organizational culture, and other social factors, makes the ethics of power—the legitimation of physicians’ power—a core concept of clinical ethics. In the absence of legitimation, the physician’s power over patients becomes problematic, even predatory. As has occurred in previous issues of the Journal, the papers in the 2016 clinical ethics issue bear on the prof…Read more
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30Responses to Open Peer Commentaries on "Physicians' Silent Decisions: Because Patient Autonomy Doesn't Always Come First"American Journal of Bioethics 7 (7): 1-3. 2007.Physicians make some medical decisions without disclosure to their patients. Nondisclosure is possible because these are silent decisions to refrain from screening, diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. Nondisclosure is ethically permissible when the usual presumption that the patient should be involved in decisions is defeated by considerations of clinical utility or patient emotional and physical well-being. Some silent decisions—not all—are ethically justified by this standard. Justified s…Read more
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57Ethical dimensions of diagnosis: A case study and analysisTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2 (2): 129-143. 1987.A rational reconstruction of the role of moral values in diagnostic reasoning is undertaken. In the context of a case study it is shown how value and ethical considerations come into play in the complex course of making diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.
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74Philosophical challenges in teaching bioethics: The importance of professional medical ethics and its history for bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 27 (4). 2002.The papers in this number of the Journal originated in a session sponsored by the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Medicine in 1999. The four papers and two commentaries identify and address philosophical challenges of how we should understand and teach bioethics in the liberal arts and health professions settings. In the course of introducing the six papers, this article explores themes these papers raise, especially the relationship among professional medical et…Read more
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17Health Intuitions Inform Patient-Centered CareAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (6): 1-3. 2014.No abstract
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26A transcultural, preventive ethics approach to critical-care medicine: Restoring the critical care physician's power and authorityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 23 (6). 1998.This article comments on the treatment of critical-care ethics in four preceding articles about critical-care medicine and its ethical challenges in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines. These articles show how cultural values can be in both synchrony and conflict in generating these ethical challenges and in the constraints that they place on the response of critical-care ethics to them. To prevent ethical conflict in critical care the author proposes a two-step approach to the…Read more
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25Medicine as a Profession: A Hypothetical Imperative in Clinical EthicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 40 (1): 1-7. 2015.
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31Trust, moral responsibility, the self, and well-ordered societies: The importance of basic philosophical concepts for clinical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 27 (1). 2002.Although the work of clinical ethics is intensely practical, it employs and presumes philosophical concepts from the central branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. This essay introduces this issue in the Journal on clinical ethics by considering how the papers and book reviews included in it illuminate four such concepts: trust, moral responsibility, the self and well-ordered societies.
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27The Accidental BioethicistCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (4): 359-368. 2002.Albert Jonsen in The Birth of Bioethics notes that his career in bioethics began with a phone call to him from soon-to-be colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. Bioethics didn't begin with a bang but as an accident in the root sense—something that happened, not by necessity, but rather by chance. Indeed, the opening chapters of Jonsen's book chronicle a series of accidents that helped to create the field of bioethics. Principal among these was the fact that p…Read more
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