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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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20Methodological concerns in bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 11 (1): 17-37. 1986.Methodological concerns are moving to the top of the bioethics agenda for the next decade. This paper examines some of those concerns: (1) medical ethics as a subset of bioethics versus medical ethics as a subset of professional ethics; (2) a more in-depth examination of some methodological problems in treating medical ethics as professional ethics; (3) the senses in which bioethics constitutes an inquiry into secular undertakings in a pluralistic society; (4) ‘federal ethics’, the emergence to …Read more
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7""Taking seriously the" what then?" question: an ethical framework for the responsible management of medical disastersJournal of Clinical Ethics 21 (4): 321-327. 2010.When healthcare resources become overwhelmed in medical disasters, as they inevitably will, we have to ask, in an unflinching fashion, the question: “What then?” or more precisely, “What should we do when we run out of resources?” In a mass casualty event worthy of the designation, we will indeed run out of resources, perhaps quite quickly. This article provides an ethical framework for the responsible management of medical disasters in which the “What then?” question must be asked. The framewor…Read more
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48The critical turn in clinical ethics and its continous enhancementJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (1). 2005.Taking the critical turn is one of the main tools of the humanities and inculcates an intellectual discipline that prevents ossification of thinking about issues and of organizational policies in clinical ethics. The articles in this "Clinical Ethics" number of the Journal take the critical turn with respect to cherished ways of thinking in Western clinical ethics, life extension, the clinical determination of death, physicians' duty to treat even at personal risk, clinical ethics at the interfa…Read more
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16The Threat of the New Managed Practice of Medicine to Patients’ AutonomyJournal of Clinical Ethics 6 (4): 320-323. 1995.
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16An Ethical Framework for the Responsible Management of Pregnant Patients in a Medical DisasterJournal of Clinical Ethics 22 (1): 20-24. 2011.The ethics of managing obstetric patients in medical disasters poses ethical challenges that are unique in comparison to other disaster patients, because the medical needs of two patients—the pregnant patient and the fetal patient—must be considered. We provide an ethical framework for doing so. We base the framework on the justice-based prevention of exploitation of populations of patients, both obstetric and non-obstetric, in medical disasters. We use the concept of exploitation to identify a …Read more
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42Hume's influence on John Gregory and the history of medical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 24 (4). 1999.The concept of medicine as a profession in the English-language literature of medical ethics is of recent vintage, invented by the Scottish physician and medical ethicist, John Gregory (1724-1773). Gregory wrote the first secular, philosophical, clinical, and feminine medical ethics and bioethics in the English language and did so on the basis of Hume's principle of sympathy. This paper provides a brief account of Gregory's invention and the role that Humean sympathy plays in that invention, wit…Read more
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65Pluralism, philosophies of medicine and the varieties of medical ethics: A commentary on Thomasma and PellegrinoMetamedicine 2 (1): 13-17. 1981.Some problems that arise in the account given by Thomasma and Pellegrino [6] of the foundations of medical ethics in a philosophy of medicine are addressed, in particular questions of a conceptual character about treating therelatum of medicine as health. Which concept of health is appropriate and which will bear the burden of the position thomasma and Pellegrino advance? It is argued that the proper relationship of medicine is one between a healer and developing embodied minds. As a consequence…Read more
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63Improving Informed Consent: The Medium Is Not the MessageIRB: Ethics & Human Research 25 (5). 2003.
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43Physicians' silent decisions: Because patient autonomy does not always come firstAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (7). 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. Justifi…Read more
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25Deliberative Clinical Ethics: Getting Back to Basics in the Work of Clinical Ethics and Clinical EthicistsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 39 (1): 1-7. 2014.The six papers in the 2014 clinical ethics number of the Journal get us back to the basics in the work of clinical ethics and clinical ethicists: getting clear about concepts that should be used in achieving deliberative clinical ethics. The papers explore the concepts of the best interests of the patient, health and disease understood in their proper relationship to autonomy in our species, the therapeutic obligation, and the therapeutic imperative. The final paper appraises the systematic revi…Read more
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Normalizing Atypical Genitalia: How a Heated Debate Went Astray (vol 42, pg 32, 2012)Hastings Center Report 43 (1): 7-7. 2013.
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39Respect as an organizing normative category for research ethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 5 (1). 2005.Rosamond Rhodes calls for a reconceptualization of research ethics and a fundamental shift in attitude toward both research subjects and scientific investigators. She recognizes the limits of the e...
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28A methodology for teaching ethics in the clinical setting: A clinical handbook for medical ethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 15 (1). 1994.The pluralism of methodologies and severe time constraints pose important challenges to pedagogy in clinical ethics. We designed a step-by-step student handbook to operate within such constraints and to respect the methodological pluralism of bioethics and clinical ethics. The handbook comprises six steps: Step 1: What are the facts of the case?; Step 2: What are your obligations to your patient?; Step 3: What are your obligations to third parties to your relationship with the patient?; Step 4: …Read more
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