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29Toward An Expanded Vision of Clinical Ethics Education: From the Individual to the InstitutionKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1 (3): 225-245. 1991.This paper advances a new paradigm in clinical ethics education that not only emphasizes development of individual cli but also focuses on the institutional context within which health care professionals work. This approach has been applied to the goal of improving the care provided to critically and terminally ill adults. The model has been adopted by about thirty hospitals and nursing homes; additional institutions will soon join the program, entitled Decisions Near the End of Life. Here, we d…Read more
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Stimulating conversations between theory and methodology in mathematics teacher education research : Inviting Bourdieu into self-study researchIn Mark Murphy & Cristina Costa (eds.), Theory as method in research: on Bourdieu, social theory and education, Routledge, Is an Imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business. 2016.
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2Lost LullabyUniversity of California Press. 1995._Lost Lullaby_ makes one think the unthinkable: how a loving parent can pray for the death of her child. It is Deborah Alecson's story of her daughter, Andrea, who was born after a full-term, uneventful pregnancy, weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces, perfectly formed and exquisitely featured. But an inexplicable accident at birth left her with massive and irreversible brain damage. On a vitality scale of one to ten, her initial reading was one. And so begins Deborah Alecson's heart-rending struggle to c…Read more
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22Protecting fetuses from prenatal hazards: Whose crimes? What punishment?Criminal Justice Ethics 9 (1): 13-23. 1990.
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11In Death's Shadow: The Meanings of Withholding ResuscitationHastings Center Report 17 (5): 9-14. 1987.Many of the controversies surrounding the withholding of resuscitation are illuminated when we examine the language of resuscitation and resuscitative decisionmaking, and the contexts in which these decisions are made. Resuscitation and its withholding have multiple and often conflicting symbolic and emotional meanings for patients, families, and clinicians, and recognizing this divergence is essential to communication and to decisionmaking.
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3How Do We Think About the Ethics of Human Germ-Line Genetic Therapy?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (6): 613-619. 1991.The line between Germ-Line genetic therapy and somatic cell is more and more difficult to discern. With new abilities to effect Germ-Line genetic therapy it is less clear why such therapy should not be undertaken. Nonetheless, questions persist as to who is the patient in such therapy and about the extent of discretion that should be allowed prospective parents and the physician/researcher.
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17New Tools, New Dilemmas: Genetic FrontiersHastings Center Report 18 (5): 40-46. 1988.The powerful new methods, expansive scope, and accelerated pace of human molecular genetics combine to catapult us into ethically unfamiliar territory. These features lend special urgency to questions of genetic ownership and privacy, disease and normalcy, identity and genetic determinism, and early diagnosis and therapy.
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6AIDS: The Responsibilities of Health professionals: IntroductionHastings Center Report 18 (2): 1-1. 1988.
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26Genug ist Genug: A Fetus Is Not a KidneyHastings Center Report 18 (6): 13-19. 1988.Transplantation of tissue from fetal cadavers threatens ethical values and our social ethos in complex and subtle ways, requiring restraints that can prevent harmful normative and attitudinal shifts yet permit pursuit of medical benefits for those desperately in need.
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3At the centerHastings Center Report 17 (5): 9-14. 1987.Many of the controversies surrounding the withholding of resuscitation are illuminated when we examine the language of resuscitation and resuscitative decisionmaking, and the contexts in which these decisions are made. Resuscitation and its withholding have multiple and often conflicting symbolic and emotional meanings for patients, families, and clinicians, and recognizing this divergence is essential to communication and to decisionmaking.
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41Commentary: How do we think about the ethics of human germ-line genetic therapy?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (6): 613-619. 1991.The line between Germ-Line genetic therapy and somatic cell is more and more difficult to discern. With new abilities to effect Germ-Line genetic therapy it is less clear why such therapy should not be undertaken. Nonetheless, questions persist as to who is the patient in such therapy and about the extent of discretion that should be allowed prospective parents and the physician/researcher. Keywords: embryo, Germ-Line, patient, somatic therapy CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this?
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15Review of Andrew Thompson and Norman Temple, eds., 2001. Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine: Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice (review)American Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 69-70. 2003.
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6Review of Andrew Thompson and Norman Temple, eds., 2001. Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine: Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice (review)American Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 69-70. 2003.No abstract