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8Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced SurgeriesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (2): 4-7. 2024.Once anesthetized, patients are inherently “compliant” with surgical interventions because they can no longer intervene on their own behalf. In their target article, Minkoff et al. (2024) reasonabl...
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There is no God in Desperation: Tak and the Problem of EvilIn Stephen King and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield. 2016.
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22A survey of Haitian attitudes towards informed consentClinical Ethics 12 (4): 197-204. 2017.BackgroundUniversal standards for bioethics, including the tenet of informed consent, should be upheld in the setting of humanitarian medical missions. The obstacles to obtaining informed consent in the global health setting have been thoroughly discussed in the literature, but no studies have investigated these issues from the patient’s perspective. We sought to understand the patient’s experience of the consent process during a four-week surgical mission to Haiti.MethodsAll patients selected f…Read more
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9Constructions of Health and Illness: European Perspectives. Edited by Ian Shaw & Kaisa Kauppinen. Pp. 154. (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004.) £45.00, ISBN 0-7546-3276-8, hardback (review)Journal of Biosocial Science 40 (3): 479-480. 2008.
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