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37Task Force on Standards for Ethics Consultation: Response to “Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?” (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (2): 284. 1996.
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31Patients?Attitudes Toward Hospital Ethics CommitteesJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 12 (1): 21-25. 1984.
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64The Dead Donor Rule: Should We Stretch It, Bend It, or Abandon It?Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3 (2): 263-278. 1993.The dead donor rule—that persons must be dead before their organs are taken—is a central part of the moral framework underlying organ procurement. Efforts to increase the pool of transplantable organs have been forced either to redefine death (e.g., anencephaly) or take advantage of ambiguities in the current definition of death (e.g., the Pittsburgh protocol). Society's growing acceptance of circumstances in which health care professionals can hasten a patient's death also may weaken the symbol…Read more
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38Should Psychiatrists Serve as Gatekeepers for Physician‐Assisted Suicide?Hastings Center Report 28 (4): 24-31. 1998.Mandating psychiatric evaluation for patients who request physician‐assisted suicide may not offer the clearcut protection from possible coercion or other abuse that proponents assert. Competence itself is a complex concept and determinations of decisionmaking capacity are not straightforward, nor is the relationship between mental illness and decisionmaking capacity in dying patients clearly understood. And casting psychiatrists as gatekeepers in end‐of‐life decisions poses risks to the profess…Read more
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