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35Do Formal Advance Directives Affect Resuscitation Decisions and the Use of Resources for Seriously Ill Patients?Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (1): 23-30. 1994.
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43A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and ScholarshipHastings Center Report 46 (5): 34-39. 2016.While the bioethics literature demonstrates that the field has spent substantial time and thought over the last four decades on the goals, methods, and desired outcomes for service and training in bioethics, there has been less progress defining the nature and goals of bioethics research and scholarship. This gap makes it difficult both to describe the breadth and depth of these areas of bioethics and, importantly, to gauge their success. However, the gap also presents us with an opportunity to …Read more
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87Propranolol and the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder: Is it wrong to erase the “sting” of bad memories?American Journal of Bioethics 7 (9). 2007.The National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD) reports that approximately 5.2 million Americans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) each year. PTSD can be severely debilitating and diminish quality of life for patients and those who care for them. Studies have indicated that propranolol, a beta-blocker, reduces consolidation of emotional memory. When administered immediately after a psychic trauma, it is efficacious as a prophylactic for PTSD. Use of such memory-altering dru…Read more
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14The Psychological and Moral Consequences of Participating in Human Fetal-Tissue ResearchJournal of Clinical Ethics 4 (4): 356-358. 1993.
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73For Experts Only? Access to Hospital Ethics CommitteesHastings Center Report 21 (5): 17-24. 1991.How closely involved with hospital ethics committees should patients and their families become? Should they routinely have access to committees, or be empowered to initiate consultations? To what extent should they be informed of the content or outcome of committee deliberations? Seeing ethics committees as the locus of competing responsibilities allows us to respond to the questions posed by a patient rights model and to acknowledge more fully the complex moral dynamics of clinical medicine.
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94Philosophical debates about the definition of death: Who cares?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (5). 2001.Since the Harvard Committees bold and highly successful attempt to redefine death in 1968 (Harvard Ad Hoc committee, 1968), multiple controversies have arisen. Stimulated by several factors, including the inherent conceptual weakness of the Harvard Committees proposal, accumulated clinical experience, and the incessant push to expand the pool of potential organ donors, the lively debate about the definition of death has, for the most part, been confined to a relatively small group of academics w…Read more
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