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    Reflections on Non-Heartbeating Organ Donation: How 3 Years of Experience Affected the University of Pittsburgh's Ethics Committee's Actions
    with Michael DeVita, Renéee C. Fox, and Stuart J. Younger
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (2): 285. 1996.
    In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center implemented a policy that permitted the recovery of organs from cadavers pronounced dead using standardized cardiac criteria. This policy allowed families that had made a decision to forgo life sustaining treatment to then request organ donation. This entailed taking the patient to the operating room, discontinuing therapy, and after the patient is pronounced dead, procuring organs
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    Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation: A Reply to Campbell and Weber
    with Michael A. DeVita, Rade Vukmir, and Cheryl Graziano
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 5 (1): 43-49. 1995.
    In the preceding commentary, Campbell and Weber raise two valid and important issues concerning non-heart-beating organ donation (NHBOD). First, because the procedure links withdrawal of life support and the potential for subsequent organ donation, the desire for organs may create a situation in which care of the dying individual has relatively less importance and the dying may receive suboptimal care. Second, even if concerns about care of the dying were dealt with adequately, there will not be…Read more
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    Is sociopathy a type or not? Will the “real” sociopathy please stand up?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3): 575-576. 1995.
    The validity of the classification of “primary sociopaths” as a qualitatively distinct group in the general population is questioned. Cenetic variation in the experience and expression of emotions may play a role in the development of antisocial behavior. However, research clearly documents that socialization environments powerfully modify the expression of genetic biases in a manner that increases or decreases the risk for “sociopathy.”
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    Heidegger reading Plato: On the way to the future of philosophy
    The European Legacy 2 (2): 332-337. 1997.
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