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57When Danny said no! Refusal of treatment by a patient of questionable competenceJournal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics 6 (1): 12-27. 1985.The patient we call Danny was a mildly mentally retarded male in his mid-thirties who adamantly refused kidney dialysis when it was offered as the only therapeutic option for his progressive kidney failure. It was uncertain how fully Danny understood the implications of his refusal. To complicate the case still further, several “advocates” emerged to speak on Danny's behalf — each with a somewhat different interpretation of the situation and different sets of value presuppositions and ethical pr…Read more
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52A team-taught interdisciplinary approach to engineering ethicsScience and Engineering Ethics 12 (2): 313-320. 2006.This paper outlines the development and implementation of a new course in Engineering Ethics at the University of Tennessee. This is a three-semester-hour course and is jointly taught by an engineering professor and a philosophy professor. While traditional pedagogical techniques such as case studies, position papers, and classroom discussions are used, additional activities such as developing a code of ethics and student-developed scenarios are employed to encourage critical thinking. Among the…Read more
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12Bioethics (edited book)Harcourt, Wadsworth. 1988.This textbook in Medical Ethics covers most of the standard issues. Each chapter begins with detailed comments by the editors, followed by the best available articles on each topic covered.
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45Forming Professional Bioethicists: The Program at the University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (3): 418-423. 2000.As a way of contributing to bioethics' understanding of itself, and, more particularly, to invigorate conversation about how we can best educate future colleagues, we present here a sketch of the quarter-century-old graduate concentration in medical ethics housed in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Our hope is to incite other programs to share their histories, strategies, problems, and aspirations, so as to help the field as a whole get a clearer sense of h…Read more
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20Theory and practice in medical ethicsContinuum. 1989.Expounds on the relationship between theory and practice as applied, adjusted, and inaugurated in health care
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16A Critical Bibliography of Recent Discussions of Religious Ethics by PhilosophersJournal of Religious Ethics 2 (2). 1974.This paper offers a listing of references to religious ethics in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature, organized in terms of a critical analysis of the main lines of argument to be found there. The principal focus is on metaethics, although references are included to other aspects of religious ethics. The author maintains that the case for a logical and/or a linguistic relation between religion and ethics is much stronger than is generally recognized in the philosophical discussions of…Read more
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24When Danny said no! Refusal of treatment by a patient of questionable competenceJournal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics 6 (1): 12-27. 1985.The patient we call Danny was a mildly mentally retarded male in his mid-thirties who adamantly refused kidney dialysis when it was offered as the only therapeutic option for his progressive kidney failure. It was uncertain how fully Danny understood the implications of his refusal. To complicate the case still further, several “advocates” emerged to speak on Danny's behalf — each with a somewhat different interpretation of the situation and different sets of value presuppositions and ethical pr…Read more
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Basic theories in medical ethicsIn John F. Monagle & David C. Thomasma (eds.), Medical Ethics: A Guide for Health Professionals, Aspen Publishers. pp. 462--475. 1988.
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Clinical Medical Ethics: Exploration and AssessmentJournal of Religious Ethics 16 (1): 190-191. 1988.
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14The Metaethics of Paul TillichJournal of Religious Ethics 1 113-133. 1973.Tillich holds an ontologically based self-realization theory of ethics. For him ethics is neither logically nor linguistically tied to theology, but is in a certain sense epistemologically dependent. Tillich's material analysis of moral judgments is claimed to be inconsistent with his critique of heteronomous morality. The author concludes that Tillich has not given good reasons for rejecting a heteronomous divine - command theory of morality
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58Anscombe on the relationship between morality and religionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 185-190. 1974.
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122The range of autonomy: Informed consent in medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 5 (1). 1984.On the basis of the characterization of autonomy set out by Beauchamp and Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics, we first explore some of the parameters along which autonomy may vary in degree through a series of hypothetical examples drawn from various settings; and, second and in more detail, we examine how the range of autonomy is affected through informed consent to various medical diagnostic tests. Our conclusions are (1) that there are significant implications for patient autonomy i…Read more
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