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15Bioethics WarsIn Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, Wiley. 2023-01-09.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
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25Perceptions of Medical Providers on Morality and Decision-Making Capacity in Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment and SuicideAJOB 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
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12Ethical Considerations for “Reopening” Health Care Organizations Amid COVID-19American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 95-97. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 95-97.
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88Ethical Challenges Arising in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) Task ForceAmerican 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...
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24COVID-19 and Financial Vulnerability: What Health Care Organizations and Society Owe Each OtherAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 139-141. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 139-141.
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32Rural and Remote Communities: Unique Ethical Issues in the COVID-19 PandemicAmerican 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...
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23Why Tolerate Conscientious Objections in MedicineHEC 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
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37Narrative Symposium: Political Influence on Bioethical DeliberationNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics 6 (1): 3-36. 2016.
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Taylor, James Stacey. Practical Autonomy and Bioethics. New York: Routledge, 2009 (review)Reason Papers 32 173-178. 2010.
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28Answering Brody's challenge from a pharmapologist perspectiveAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (1). 2011.This Article does not have an abstract
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80Overcoming the organ shortage: Failing means and radical reform (review)HEC Forum 20 (2): 155-182. 2008.
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9What my Children Taught Me about Information Sharing in MedicineNarrative 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
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14Toward accommodating physicians’ conscientious objections: an argument for public disclosureJournal of Medical Ethics 41 (3): 224-228. 2015.This paper aims to demonstrate how public disclosure can be used to balance physicians9 conscientious objections with their professional obligations to patients – specifically respect for patient autonomy and informed consent. It is argued here that physicians should be permitted to exercise conscientious objections, but that they have a professional obligation to provide advance notification to patients about those objections. It is further argued here that public disclosure is an appropriate a…Read more
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15Corporate Moral Culpability in Health Care: When the Implications Don't Fit the CrimeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (9): 12-13. 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 12-13, September 2011
Thomas D. Harter
Cleveland Clinic
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Cleveland ClinicBioethics CentrePostdoc
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |