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    End-of-life issues and questions are complex and frequently cause confusion and anxiety. In _Death with Dignity_,_ _theologian, medical ethicist, and pastoral caregiver Peter A. Clark examines numerous issues that are pertinent to patients, family members, and health care professionals, including physiology, consciousness, the definition of death, the distinction between extraordinary and ordinary means, medical futility, “Do Not Resuscitate” orders, living wills, power of attorney, pain assessm…Read more
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    Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (edited book)
    InTech Publisher. 2012.
    The main strength of this book is the international exchange of ideas that will not only highlight many of these crucial bioethical issues but will strengthen the discipline of bioethics both nationally and globally. A critical exchange of ideas allows everyone to learn and benefit from the insights gained through others experiences. Analyzing and understanding real medical-ethical issues and cases and how they are resolved is the basis of education in bioethics for those who will have to make t…Read more
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    Physician Participation in Executions: Care Giver or Executioner?
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (1): 95-104. 2006.
    To circumvent objections that the death penalty was “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, advocates proposed lethal injection and the involvement of physicians to overcome the negative perceptions associated with the death penalty, and to increase public acceptability of the practice. Initiated in 1982, lethal injection is now the primary method of execution in 37 of the 38 states with the death penalty. “To be exact, this method ha…Read more
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    Prejudice and the Medical Profession: A Five-Year Update
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 37 (1): 118-133. 2009.
    Over the past decades the mortality rate in the United States has decreased and life expectancy has increased. Yet a number of recent studies have drawn Americans attention to the fact that racial and ethnic disparities persist in health care. It is clear that the U.S. health care system is not only flawed for many reasons including basic injustices, but may be the cause of both injury and death for members of racial and ethnic minorities.In 2002, an Institute of Medicine report requested by Con…Read more
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    Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation and Catholic Ethics
    with Uday Deshmukh
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 4 (3): 537-551. 2004.
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    Medical Ethics at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib: The Problem of Dual Loyalty
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (3): 570-580. 2006.
    Although knowledge of torture and physical and psychological abuse was widespread at both the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and known to medical personnel, there was no official report before the January 2004 Army investigation of military health personnel reporting abuse, degradation, or signs of torture. Mounting information from many sources, including Pentagon documents, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch…Read more
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    The issue of death due to medical errors is not new. We have all heard horror stories about patients dying in the hospital because of a drug mix-up or a surgery patient having the wrong limb amputated. Most people believed these stories were the exception to the rule until November 1999, when the Institute of Medicine issued a report entitled To Err Is Human: Building A Safer Health System. This report focused on medical errors and patient safety in U.S. hospitals. The report indicated that as m…Read more
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    Undocumented Patients
    with Kevin M. Capuzzi and Nurahmed Mohammed
    Hastings Center Report 42 (1): 15-16. 2012.
    Mr. A's physician recommends immediate dialysis. However, Mr. A is in the United States illegally, has no family living in the area, and is unemployed. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act requires the hospital not only to examine Mr. A, but to provide him with any needed stabilizing treatment without considering his lack of insurance coverage or ability to pay. The needed treatment to stabilize Mr. A is dialysis. Therefore, the physician admits him and starts dialysis. But Mr. A will n…Read more
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    ABSTRACT Mother‐to‐child transmission (MTCT) of HIV represents a particularly dramatic aspect of the HIV epidemic with an estimated 600,000 newborns infected yearly, 90% of them living in sub‐Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, an estimated 5.1 million children worldwide have been infected with HIV. MTCT is responsible for 90% of these infections. Two‐thirds of the MTCT are believed to occur during pregnancy and delivery, and about one‐third through breastfeeding. As the num…Read more
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    Reuse Of Pacemakers In Ghana And Nigeria: Medical, Legal, Cultural And Ethical Perspectives
    with Aloysius Ochasi
    Developing World Bioethics 15 (3): 125-133. 2014.
    According to the World Health Organization cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally. Over 80% of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries. It is estimated that 1 million to 2 million people worldwide die each year due to lack of access to an implantable cardiac defibrillator or a pacemaker. Despite the medical, legal, cultural and ethical controversies surrounding the pacemaker reutilization, studies done so far on the reuse of postmortem pacemakers show it …Read more
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    Case Study: Mother and Son: The Case of Medical Marijuana
    with Kevin O'Brien
    Hastings Center Report 32 (5): 11. 2002.
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    Case Study: Mother and Son: The Case of Medical Marijuana
    with Kevin O'Brien
    Hastings Center Report 32 (5): 11. 2002.
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    Case Study: The Million Dollar Question
    with Lauren S. Cobbs and Margherita Brusa
    Hastings Center Report 30 (5): 24. 2000.
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    Sham Surgery: To Cut or Not to Cut—That Is the Ethical Dilemma
    American Journal of Bioethics 3 (4): 66-68. 2003.
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    Placebo Surgery for Parkinson's Disease: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (1): 58-68. 2002.
    In April 1999, Dr. Curt Freed of the University of Colorado in Denver and Dr. Stanley Fahn of Columbia Presbyterian Center in New York presented the results of a four-year, $5.7 million government-financed study using tissue from aborted fetuses to treat Parkinson’s disease at a conference of the American Academy of Neurology. The results of the first government-financed, placebo-controlled clinical study using fetal tissue showed that the symptoms of some Parkinson’s patients had been relieved.…Read more
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    ABSTRACTMother‐to‐child transmission of HIV represents a particularly dramatic aspect of the HIV epidemic with an estimated 600,000 newborns infected yearly, 90% of them living in sub‐Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, an estimated 5.1 million children worldwide have been infected with HIV. MTCT is responsible for 90% of these infections. Two‐thirds of the MTCT are believed to occur during pregnancy and delivery, and about one‐third through breastfeeding. As the number of w…Read more
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    The issue of death due to medical errors is not new. We have all heard horror stories about patients dying in the hospital because of a drug mix-up or a surgery patient having the wrong limb amputated. Most people believed these stories were the exception to the rule until November 1999, when the Institute of Medicine issued a report entitled To Err Is Human: Building A Safer Health System. This report focused on medical errors and patient safety in U.S. hospitals. The report indicated that as m…Read more
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    Deafness and Prenatal Testing: A Study Analysis
    Internet Journal of Family Practice 14 (1). 2016.
    The Deaf culture in the United States is a unique culture that is not widely understood. To members of the Deaf community in the United States, deafness is not viewed as a disease or pathology to be treated or cured; instead it is seen as a difference in human experience. Members of this community do not hide their deafness; instead they take great pride in their Deaf identity. The Deaf culture in the United States is very communitarian not individualistic. Mary Beth and Dominic are a married co…Read more
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    Case Study: The Million Dollar Question
    with Lauren S. Cobbs and Margherita Brusa
    Hastings Center Report 30 (5): 24. 2000.
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    Ontology reuse and application
    with Mike Uschold, Mike Healy, Keith Williamson, and Steven Woods
    In Nicola Guarino (ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Ios Press. pp. 192. 1998.
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    Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics
    Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 11 169-183. 2004.
    A little over one hundred years ago , Frege wrote to Russell in the following terms1: I myself was long reluctant to recognize ranges of values and hence classes; but I saw no other possibility of placing arithmetic on a logical foundation. But the question is how do we apprehend logical objects? And I have found no other answer to it than this, We apprehend them as extensions of concepts, or more generally, as ranges of values of functions. I have always been aware that there are difficulties c…Read more
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    Dummett's Argument for the Indefinite Extensibility of Set and Real Number
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 55 (1): 51-63. 1998.
    The paper examines Dummett's argument for the indefinite extensibility of the concepts set, ordinal, real number, set of natural numbers, and natural number. In particular it investigates how the indefinite extensibility of the concept set affects our understanding of the notion of real number and whether the argument to the indefinite extensibility of the reals is cogent. It claims that Dummett is right to think of the universe of sets as an indefinitely extensible domain but questions the coge…Read more
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    Dummett's Argument for the Indefinite Extensibility of Set and Real Number
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 55 (1): 51-63. 1998.
    The paper examines Dummett's argument for the indefinite extensibility of the concepts set, ordinal, real number, set of natural numbers, and natural number. In particular it investigates how the indefinite extensibility of the concept set affects our understanding of the notion of real number and whether the argument to the indefinite extensibility of the reals is cogent. It claims that Dummett is right to think of the universe of sets as an indefinitely extensible domain but questions the coge…Read more
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    Philosophy of science today (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2003.
    Philosophy of Science Today offers a state-of-the-art guide to this fast-developing area. An eminent international team of authors covers a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences, including causation, realism, methodology, epistemology, and the philosophical foundations of physics, biology, and psychology.