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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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17Cases 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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26Ethics 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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16Long 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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19Getting 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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30Preventive ethics, managed practice, and the hospital ethics committee as a resource for physician executivesHEC Forum 10 (2): 136-151. 1998.
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73Patient autonomy for the management of chronic conditions: A two-component re-conceptualizationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (2). 2009.The clinical application of the concept of patient autonomy has centered on the ability to deliberate and make treatment decisions (decisional autonomy) to the virtual exclusion of the capacity to execute the treatment plan (executive autonomy). However, the one-component concept of autonomy is problematic in the context of multiple chronic conditions. Adherence to complex treatments commonly breaks down when patients have functional, educational, and cognitive barriers that impair their capacit…Read more
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12Bioethics in the twenty-first century: Why we should pay attention to eighteenth- century medical ethicsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 6 (4): 329-333. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Bioethics in the Twenty-First Century: Why We Should Pay Attention to Eighteenth-Century Medical EthicsLaurence B. McCullough (bio)Those of us who work in the field of bioethics tend to think that, because the word “bioethics” is new, so too the field is new in all respects, but we are not the first to do bioethics. John Gregory (1724–1773) did bioethics just as we do it, at least two centuries before we thought to do it (Gregory 177…Read more
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76Moral authority, power, and trust in clinical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 24 (1). 1999.Moral concerns about the authority, power, and trustworthiness of physicians have become important topics in clinical ethics during the past three decades. These concerns have come to greater prominence with the increasing involvement of large-scale private institutions in the organization and delivery of medical services, especially managed care organizations, and with the increasing involvement of government in the payment for and organization and delivery of medical services. When physicians …Read more
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26The nature and limits of the physician's professional responsibilities: Surgical ethics, matters of conscience, and managed careJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (1). 2004.The nature and limits of the physician's professional responsibilities constitute core topics in clinical ethics. These responsibilities originate in the physician's professional role, which was first examined in the modern English-language literature of medical ethics by two eighteenth-century British physician-ethicists, John Gregory and Thomas Percival. The papers in this annual clinical ethics number of the Journal explore the physician's professional responsibilities in the areas of surgica…Read more
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81Ethics Committees at Work: Organs for Undocumented Aliens? A Transplantation DilemmaCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4 (2): 229. 1995.
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28Towards a professional ethics model of clinical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (1). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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27The Professional Responsibility Model of Respect for Autonomy in Decision Making About Cesarean DeliveryAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (7). 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 7, Page 1-2, July 2012
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38Reification and synergy in clinical ethics and its adequacy to the managed practice of medicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (1): 1-6. 1996.
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37A Case Study in Junk Bioethics Run AmokAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (12): 59-61. 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 12, Page 59-61, December 2011
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33Getting back to the fundamentals of clinical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (1). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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28Laying Medicine Open: Innovative Interaction Between Medicine and the HumanitiesKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 9 (1): 1-5. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Laying Medicine Open: Innovative Interaction Between Medicine and the HumanitiesLaurence B. McCullough and Warren Thomas ReichThe past three decades have witnessed the emergence and remarkable success of the fields of bioethics and medical humanities. The intellectual landscape of medicine and that of the humanities have been remarkably altered in the process. Twenty-five to 30 years ago in the United States there existed but a few c…Read more
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32Contributions of Ethical Theory to Pediatric Ethics Pediatricians and Parents as Co-fiduciaries of Pediatric PatientsPediatric Bioethics. forthcoming.
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90Molecular medicine, managed care, and the moral responsibilities of patients and physiciansJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 23 (1). 1998.This Article does not have an abstract
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