Thomas D. Harter

Cleveland Clinic
  •  70
    Reconsidering Kant on suicide
    Philosophical Forum 42 (2): 167-185. 2011.
  •  67
    Ethical Challenges Arising in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) Task Force
    with Amy L. McGuire, Mark P. Aulisio, F. Daniel Davis, Cheryl Erwin, Reshma Jagsi, Robert Klitzman, Robert Macauley, Eric Racine, Susan M. Wolf, Matthew Wynia, and Paul Root Wolpe
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 15-27. 2020.
    The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of ethical challenges, but key among these has been the possibility that health care systems might need to ration scarce critical care resources. Rationing p...
  •  27
    Answering Brody's challenge from a pharmapologist perspective
    American Journal of Bioethics 11 (1). 2011.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  •  23
    Narrative Symposium: Political Influence on Bioethical Deliberation
    with Jean–Christophe Bélisle Pipon, Marie–Ève Lemoine, Maude Laliberté, Bryn Williams–Jones, Dan Bustillos, Anonymous One, Anonymous Two, Ashley K. Fernandes, Anonymous Three, D. Micah Hester, Anonymous Four, Mary Faith Marshall, Philip M. Rosoff, and Giles R. Scofield
    Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 6 (1): 3-36. 2016.
  •  19
    COVID-19 and Financial Vulnerability: What Health Care Organizations and Society Owe Each Other
    with Ana Iltis, Maria C. Clay, and Mark Aulisio
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 139-141. 2020.
    Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 139-141.
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    Why Tolerate Conscientious Objections in Medicine
    HEC Forum 33 (3): 175-188. 2019.
    Most arguments about conscientious objections in medicine fail to capture the full scope and complexity of the concept before drawing conclusions about their permissibility in practice. Arguments favoring and disfavoring the accommodation of conscientious objections in practice tend to focus too narrowly on prima facie morally contentious treatments and religious claims of conscience, while further failing to address the possibility of moral perspectives changing over time. In this paper, I argu…Read more
  •  17
    Rural and Remote Communities: Unique Ethical Issues in the COVID-19 Pandemic
    with Cheryl Erwin, Julie Aultman, Judy Illes, and Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 117-120. 2020.
    We expand on the article “Ethical Challenges Arising in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) Task Force” to consider the ways in which rural...
  •  11
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 12-13, September 2011
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    You Can’t Legislate Death
    Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 6 (1): 20-23. 2016.
  •  8
    Bioethics Wars
    In Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, Wiley. 2023.
    People are typically grateful for medical technologies used in the treatment of illness or injury. This chapter explores how Lucas has led Star Wars audiences astray into accepting false beliefs and fallacies about the value of technology, particularly in a medical context. Via the naturalistic fallacy, Lucas conveys the false belief that most technology is “unnatural” and so is bad, harmful, or associated with the dark side. Lucas is not wrong that technology can be fearful, but its value depen…Read more
  •  8
    Perceptions of Medical Providers on Morality and Decision-Making Capacity in Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment and Suicide
    with Erin L. Sterenson, Andrew Borgert, and Cary Rasmussen
    AJOB Empirical Bioethics 12 (4): 227-238. 2021.
    Background: This study attempts to understand if medical providers beliefs about the moral permissibility of honoring patient-directed refusals of life-sustaining treatment (LST) are tied to their beliefs about the patient’s decision-making capacity. The study aims to answer: 1) does concern about a patient’s treatment decision-making capacity relate to beliefs about whether it is morally acceptable to honor a refusal of LST, 2) are there differences between provider types in assessments of deci…Read more
  •  7
    Ethical Considerations for “Reopening” Health Care Organizations Amid COVID-19
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 95-97. 2020.
    Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 95-97.
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    What my Children Taught Me about Information Sharing in Medicine
    Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 3 (1): 12-14. 2013.
    This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the p…Read more
  • Book Review (review)
    Journal of Value Inquiry 41 (2-4): 345-351. 2007.
  • Book Review (review)
    Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (1): 111-117. 2009.