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29Response to Open Commentaries for "Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is It Wrong to Erase the 'Sting' of Bad Memories?"American Journal of Bioethics 7 (9): 1-3. 2007.The National Institute of Mental Health reports that approximately 5.2 million Americans experience post-traumatic stress disorder 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 drugs raises important et…Read more
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28The stakes are not very high in this gameAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (4). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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28Ethics Without Borders? Why The United States Needs an International Dialogue on Living Organ DonationIn Akira Akabayashi (ed.), The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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27IntroductionKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14 (3): 211-215. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:IntroductionStuart J. Youngner (bio), Laura A. Siminoff (bio), and Renie Schapiro (bio)This issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (KIEJ) centers on a piece of empirical research. The motivation behind the study of Laura Siminoff, Christopher Burant, and Stuart Youngner (2004) was to find out more about what the general public understands and believes about when a person is dead. More specifically, the study tried to determ…Read more
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27When Is "Dead"?Hastings Center Report 29 (6): 14. 1999.One way of increasing the supply of vital organs without violating the dead donor rule is to declare death on cardiopulmonary criteria after withdrawing life support. The question then is how quickly death may be declared.
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26Physicians' quantitative assessments of medical futilityJournal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2): 100. 1994.
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26Casting Light and Doubt on Uncontrolled DCDD ProtocolsHastings Center Report 43 (1): 27-30. 2013.The ever‐increasing demand for organs led Spain, France, and other European countries to promote uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death (uDCDD). For the same reason, New York City has recently developed its own uDCDD protocol, which differs from European programs in some key ways. The New York protocol incorporates a series of technical and management improvements that address some practical problems identified in response to European uDCDD protocols. However, the more fu…Read more
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24Original ArticlesHastings Center Report 29 (6): 14-21. 1999.One way of increasing the supply of vital organs without violating the dead donor rule is to declare death on cardiopulmonary criteria after withdrawing life support. The question then is how quickly death may be declared.
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21“Allow natural death” is not equivalent to “do not resuscitate”: a responseJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (12): 887-888. 2008.
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20A Model System Works: Looking Deeper than SuicideJournal of Clinical Ethics 4 (4): 332-333. 1993.
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18Patient‐Satisfaction Surveys on a Scale of 0 to 10: Improving Health Care, or Leading It Astray?Hastings Center Report 45 (3): 43-51. 2015.The current institutional focus on patient satisfaction and on surveys designed to assess this could eventually compromise the quality of health care while simultaneously raising its cost. We begin this paper with an overview of the concept of patient satisfaction, which remains poorly and variously defined. Next, we trace the evolution of patient‐satisfaction surveys, including both their useful and problematic aspects. We then describe the effects of these surveys, the most troubling of which …Read more
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16The Authors ReplyHastings Center Report 45 (6): 4-5. 2015.A response to “CAHPS Surveys: Valid and Valuable Measures of Patient Experience,” byWilliam G. Lehrman and Mark W. Friedberg, and to “Courage, Context, and Contemporary Health Care,” by Jeffrey T. Berger
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16A Physician/Ethicist Responds: A Student's Rights Are Not So SimpleKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2 (1): 13-18. 1992.
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12The Psychological and Moral Consequences of Participating in Human Fetal-Tissue ResearchJournal of Clinical Ethics 4 (4): 356-358. 1993.
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12Do‐Not‐Resuscitate Orders: No Longer Secret But Still a ProblemHastings Center Report 17 (1): 24-33. 1987.Over the past decade, public discussion has focused on the ethics of issuing Do‐Not‐Resuscitate Orders, and the failure of many hospitals to acknowledge their actions openly. Recent efforts on the part of some hospitals to establish formal DNR guidelines that are prudent, fair, and humane, are a helpful beginning, though they cannot account for all the vagaries of illness and human communication. But concerns about DNR should not divert us from looking closely and rigorously at other, more commo…Read more
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11Commentary on" Is Mr. Spock Mentally Competent?"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 5 (1): 89-92. 1998.
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5Physicians’ Quantitative Assessments of Medical FutilityJournal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2): 100-105. 1994.
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4Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Assessing the Dutch Experience (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it. S…Read more
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