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The Ethics of Terminal Illness: Orchestrating the End of LifeKlüwer Academic (Plenum) Publishing Company. 2000.
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19Framing Issues in Health Care: Do American Ideals Demand Basic Health Care and Other Social Necessities for All?Health Care Analysis 15 (4): 261-271. 2007.This paper argues for the necessity of universal health care (as well as universal free education) using a different argument than most that have been made heretofore. It is not meant to conflict with but to strengthen the arguments previously made by others. Using the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution we argue that universal health care in this day and age has become a necessary condition if the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of ha…Read more
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10Use and Abuse of Bioethics: Integrity and Professional Standing (review)Health Care Analysis 13 (1): 73-86. 2005.This paper sets out to examine the integrity and professional standing of “Bioethics.” It argues that professions have certain responsibilities that start with setting criteria for and credentialing those that have met the criteria and goes on to ultimately have social responsibilities to the community. As it now stands we claim that Bioethics—while it certainly has achieved some progress in the way medicine has developed—has failed to become a profession and has to a large extent failed in its …Read more
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17Lebensunwertes Leben and the Obligation to Die: Does the Obligation to Die Rest on a Misunderstanding of Community? (review)Health Care Analysis 7 (1): 23-36. 1999.In this paper the authors address the recent argument that we have an obligation to seek or actively bring about our own death when we burden others too greatly. Some of the problems with this argument and some of the practical conseqeuences of adopting such a point of view are discussed in this paper. We argue that the argument rests on an individualistic approach which sees the family being burdened as standing alone instead of seeing it as embedded in a burden-sharing community
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25Bioethics at the CrossroadHealth Care Analysis 9 (4): 463-476. 2001.Bioethics and its offspring Health-care Ethics have a variety ofuses and obligations among which and perhaps most importantly istheir social obligation. This paper raises questions as toBioethics fulfilling the necessary criteria for a profession,suggests that it can serve as a link between individual andcommunal problems, discusses the task of health-care ethics as well as ways of teaching it, lists some of the obligationsof health-care ethics professionals and discusses the dangers to and fail…Read more
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1Integrity and Personhood: Looking at Patients from a Bio/Psycho/Social PerspectiveSpringer Verlag. 2000.This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare. By challenging these dominant views the author can explore presuppositions that are defective. She further explains how they come to be so readily and uncritically held and reinforced; and, why their implications can have such a profound affect on how we think and act. Using the methodology of philosopher, John Dewey, the author proposes an alternative bio/psycho/social approach to understanding the…Read more
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“Written Advance Directives: Theuth’s Blessing…or…Curse?”Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 4 (13): 439-41. 2004.
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14Hastening Death by Selective Disclosure of Treatment Options—Beneficence or “Euthanasia by Deception?” Vol. 12, No. 3, September 2004Health Care Analysis 12 (3): 241-250. 2004.In this paper I make a radical claim regarding selective non-disclosure of treatment options that have some hope of prolonging a patient's life. I suggest that selective non-disclosure under such circumstances is tantamount to what might be called “euthanasia by deception.” I offer a case to test the validity of my claim and to demonstrate how the failure to offer or, at least, to discuss renal dialysis in this case (and, by inference, any other form of treatment which has some hope of prolongin…Read more
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16AgeismsHealth Care Analysis 13 (2): 147-156. 2005.In this paper some very fundamental attitudes we have and assumptions we make in the US about persons, what they owe and what they are owed, are scrutinized and found to be indefensibly ageist. It is argued that these assumptions and the attitudes they engender are supported by logically and ethically suspect methods and conclusions. These errors are summarized and some remedial steps by which we might better protect against such illicit and unwarranted methods and conclusions in the future are …Read more
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13Use and Abuse of Bioethics: Integrity and Professional StandingHealth Care Analysis 13 (1): 73-86. 2005.This paper sets out to examine the integrity and professional standing of “Bioethics.” It argues that professions have certain responsibilities that start with setting criteria for and credentialing those that have met the criteria and goes on to ultimately have social responsibilities to the community. As it now stands we claim that Bioethics—while it certainly has achieved some progress in the way medicine has developed—has failed to become a profession and has to a large extent failed in its …Read more
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Women in Medicine: Recognition and ResponsibilityVirtual Mentor:American Associaton 10 (6): 465-468. 2008.
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StrikesEncyclopedia of Global Bioethics. 2016.This entry addresses the phenomenon known as a “strike.” It provides a brief introduction to the history and development of strikes in general. Then, it describes the conceptual underpinnings and the sociological and ethical aspects of four different types of strikes: (1) general or “mass” strikes; (2) “capital” strikes; (3)“essential” strikes, which includes a section devoted to physician strikes; and (4) “hunger” strikes. This entry stresses the importance of understanding strikes and their re…Read more
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15A Critique Of Traditional Relationship ModelsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (1): 27-37. 1994.Today's ever-widening expert/novice gap–in technology generally but in healthcare technology especially–has been implicated as both cause and consequence of a sharp rise in fundamental misunderstandings between medical professionals and lay populace. Recently created social roles and institutions have further prompted critics to suggest that a multiplication of “disinterested” experts not only fails to resolve such misunderstandings, it compounds them. As a result, it should come as no surprise …Read more
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21Commentary. Of cultural practices, ethics and education: thoughts about affecting changes in cultural practicesHealth Care Analysis 6 (1): 45-51. 1998.
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