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17Ethics is Everybody’s Business, Especially in Regard to ConfidentialityJournal of Clinical Ethics 2 (1): 30-31. 1991.
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19Ethical Aspect of Research Involving Elderly SubjectsJournal of Clinical Ethics 1 (4): 285-286. 1990.
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29HECs: Are they evaluating their performance? (review)HEC Forum 5 (1): 1-34. 1993.Although the incidence and composition of HECs has been well characterized, little is known about how HECs assess their performance. In order to describe the incidence of HEC self-evaluation, the methods HECs use to evaluate their performance, and the characteristics of HECs that influence self-evaluation, we surveyed the readers ofHospital Ethics. 290 HECs in 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and three Canadian provinces, completed questionnaires. Of the 241 HECs included in…Read more
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23Fatal Knowledge? Prenatal Diagnosis and Sex SelectionHastings Center Report 19 (3): 21-27. 1989.Moral and social arguments weigh heavily against performing medical procedures solely for purposes of sex selection. The medical profession has a responsibility to abandon its posture of ethical neutrality and take a firm stand now against sex selection.
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18Incidental Findings in CT Colonography: Literature Review and Survey of Current Research PracticeJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (2): 320-331. 2008.Incidental fndings of potential medical signifcance are seen in approximately 5-8 percent of asymptomatic subjects and 16 percent of symptomatic subjects participating in large computed tomography colonography studies, with the incidence varying further by CT acquisition technique. While most CTC research programs have a well-defned plan to detect and disclose IFs, such plans are largely communicated only verbally. Written consent documents should also inform subjects of how IFs of potential med…Read more
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13Case Studies in Bioethics: Dialysis for Schizophrenia: Consent & CostsHastings Center Report 9 (2): 10. 1979.
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13Quality Control for Hospitals' Clinical Ethics Services: Proposed StandardsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (3): 257-268. 1997.Hospital ethics committees have become widespread over the last 25 years, stimulated by the Quinlan decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court, the report of a President's Commission, and most recently by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, which now man dates that each hospital seeking accreditation have a functioning process for the consideration of ethical issues in patient care. Laws and regulations in several states require that hospitals establish ethics commi…Read more
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55Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (4): 417. 1993.Whether ethics is too important to be left to the experts or so important that it must be is an age-old question. The emergence of clinical ethicists raises it again, as a question about professionalism. What role clinical ethicists should play in healthcare decision making – teacher, mediator, or consultant – is a question that has generated considerable debate but no consensus
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22Do Vitamins Prevent Neural Tube Defects (and Can We Find Out Ethically)?Hastings Center Report 13 (4): 5-8. 1983.
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12What Are Society's Interests in Human Genetics and Reproductive Technologies?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 16 (1-2): 131-137. 1988.
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6Should Health Screening Be Private? Jim Thornton, London, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999, 65 pages,£ 5 (review)Journal of Medical Ethics 26 (3): 220-220. 2000.
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21Germ-line Gene Therapy: A New Stage of DebateJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (1-2): 26-39. 1992.
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17Federal Regulations for Fetal Research: A Case for ReformJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 15 (3): 126-138. 1987.
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66Ethical issues in and beyond prospective clinical trials of human Gene therapyJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 10 (3): 293-310. 1985.As the potential for the first human trials of somatic cell gene therapy nears, two ethical issues are examined: (1) problems of moral choice for members of institutional review boards who consider the first protocols, for parents, and for the clinical researchers, and the special protections that may be required for the infants and children to be involved, and (2) ethical objections to somatic cell therapy made by those concerned about a putative inevitable progression of genetic knowledge from…Read more
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20Ethics and Amniocentesis for Fetal Sex IdentificationHastings Center Report 10 (1): 15-17. 1980.
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57Biomedical ethics and an ethics consultation service at the University of VirginiaHEC Forum 2 (2): 89-99. 1990.