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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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14The 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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11Cases 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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13Long 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 Baker & Laurence B. McCullough (eds.), The Cambridge world history of medical ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 403--413. 2009.
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27Responsibly 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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27Towards 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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26The 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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35A 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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53Was bioethics founded on historical and conceptual mistakes about medical paternalism?Bioethics 25 (2): 66-74. 2010.Bioethics has a founding story in which medical paternalism, the interference with the autonomy of patients for their own clinical benefit, was an accepted ethical norm in the history of Western medical ethics and was widespread in clinical practice until bioethics changed the ethical norms and practice of medicine. In this paper I show that the founding story of bioethics misreads major texts in the history of Western medical ethics. I also show that a major source for empirical claims about th…Read more
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54An Ethically Justified Framework for Clinical Investigation to Benefit Pregnant and Fetal PatientsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (5): 39-49. 2011.Research to improve the health of pregnant and fetal patients presents ethical challenges to clinical investigators, institutional review boards, funding agencies, and data safety and monitoring boards. The Common Rule sets out requirements that such research must satisfy but no ethical framework to guide their application. We provide such an ethical framework, based on the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient. We offer criteria for innovation and for Phase I and II and then for Phase III c…Read more
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13Letter to the EditorsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (10). 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 34-35, October 2011
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28The History of Medical Ethics Is Crucial for a Critical Perspective in the Continuing Development of Ethics ConsultationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (4): 55-57. 2001.(2001). The History of Medical Ethics Is Crucial for a Critical Perspective in the Continuing Development of Ethics Consultation. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 55-57
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79A Case Study in Unethical Transgressive Bioethics: “Letter of Concern from Bioethicists” About the Prenatal Administration of DexamethasoneAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (9): 35-45. 2010.On February 3, 2010, a “Letter of Concern from Bioethicists,” organized by fetaldex.org, was sent to report suspected violations of the ethics of human subjects research in the off-label use of dexamethasone during pregnancy by Dr. Maria New. Copies of this letter were submitted to the FDA Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office for Human Research Protections, and three universities where Dr. New has held or holds appointments. We provide a cri…Read more
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14Rethinking the conceptual and empirical foundations of clinical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 33 (1): 1-5. 2008.The five papers in the 2008 “Clinical Ethics” number of the journal address the conceptual and empirical foundations of clinical ethics. Three articles take up the concept of professionalism in medicine, exploring its possibilities and implications. The fourth article provides a distinctive, phenomenological account of the “placebo effect,” a vexing topic of surprising durability in the clinical setting. The final article, a systematic review of the qualitative literature on bedside rationing of…Read more
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