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23Special Supplement: Ethics and Trusteeship for Health Care: Hospital Board Service in Turbulent TimesHastings Center Report 32 (4). 2002.
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9Between Usual and Crisis Phases of a Public Health Emergency: The Mediating Role of Contingency MeasuresAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (8): 4-16. 2021.Much of the sustained attention on pandemic preparedness has focused on the ethical justification for plans for the “crisis” phase of a surge when, despite augmentation efforts, the demand for life...
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8A Health Care Systems Approach to Improving Care for Seriously Ill PatientsNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics 10 (1): 79-88. 2020.
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9Perspective: Privacy and Security for Electronic Health RecordsHastings Center Report 35 (6). 2005.
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9Science, bioethics, and the public interest: ▪On the need for transparency▪Hastings Center Report 32 (3): 23-26. 2002.As in science, so in bioethics: if prohibiting conflicts of interest is not feasible, rigorous requirements for disclosure can at least manage them.
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14Special Supplement: Promoting Patient Safety: An Ethical Basis for Policy DeliberationHastings Center Report 33 (5). 2003.
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15""To what extent should we think of our intimates as" persons"? Commentary on" Conceiving a childJournal of Clinical Ethics 1 (2): 103-107. 1990.
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16Review of Cynthia R. Daniels, At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (review)American Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 65-66. 2002.
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18Ensuring Appropriate Care for LGBT Veterans in the Veterans Health AdministrationHastings Center Report 44 (s4): 53-55. 2014.Within health care systems, negative perceptions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons have often translated into denial of services, denial of visitation rights to same‐sex partners, reluctance on the part of LGBT patients to share personal information, and failure of workers to assess and recognize the unique health care needs of these patients. Other bureaucratic forms of exclusion have included documents, forms, and policies that fail to acknowledge a patient's valued relationsh…Read more
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11Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of latrogenic IllnessHastings Center Report 30 (4): 44. 2000.
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35Clinical ethics revisited: responses (review)BMC Medical Ethics 2 (1): 1-10. 2001.This series of responses was commissioned to accompany the article by Singer et al, which can be found at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/2/1. If you would like to comment on the article by Singer et al or any of the responses, please email us on [email protected].
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How the Liberal Ideal Fails as a Foundation for Medical Ethics or Medical Ethics "in a Different Voice"Dissertation, Georgetown University. 1991.In this dissertation, I question whether deontological liberalism or "justice theory" is an adequate framework for the development of medical ethical theory. I argue that the medical moral domain is inadequately described by the norms of impartiality, universality, and equality that characterize the liberal ideal. The foci of my inquiry are the libertarian theory of H. T. Engelhardt, Jr. and the contractarian theory of R. M. Veatch. The liberal ideal fails as a foundation for medical ethics in a…Read more
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17Medical ethics in the courtroom: the need for scrutinyPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 32 (4): 547-564. 1988.
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12[Book review] medical harm, historical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of iatrogenic illness (review)Hastings Center Report 30 (4). 2000.
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23Medical Ethics in the Courtroom: A ReappraisalJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (4): 373-379. 1997.Following up on a 1989 paper on the subject, this essay revisits the question of ethical expertise in the court room. Informed by recent developments in the use of ethics experts, the authors argue 1) that the adversarial nature of court proceedings challenges the integrity of the ethicist's pedagogical role; 2) that the use of ethics experts as normative authorities remains dubious; 3) that clarification of the State's interest in “protecting the ethical integrity of the medical profession” is …Read more
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32Review of Cynthia R. Daniels, At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (review)American Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 65-66. 2002.(2002). Review of Cynthia R. Daniels, At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 65-66
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30Sea Change on Financial Conflicts of Interest in Health Care?Hastings Center Report 39 (3): 9-10. 2009.
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12The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of "Appropriateness"Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 (4): 337-343. 1997.The terms "appropriate" and "necessary" are crucial determinants in decisions regarding the use and reimbursement of medical treatments. This paper encourages greater awareness of the political, economic, and normative assumptions that give meaning to these concepts.
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Strategic disclosure requirements and the ethics of bioethicsIn Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 170--180. 2007.
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64"Clean" nuclear energy?: Global warming, public health, and justiceHastings Center Report 38 (4). 2008.
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51Why “do no harm”?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 18 (1-2): 197-215. 1997.Edmund Pellegrino has argued that the dramatic changes in American health care call for critical reflection on the traditional norms governing the therapeutic relationship. This paper offers such reflection on the obligation to do no harm. Drawing on work by Beauchamp and Childress and Pellegrino and Thomasma, I argue that the libertarian model of medical ethics offered by Engelhardt cannot adequately sustain an obligation to do no harm. Because the obligation to do no harm is not based simply o…Read more
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40Justice and care: The implications of the Kohlberg-Gilligan debate for medical ethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 13 (4). 1992.Carol Gilligan has identified two orientations to moral understanding; the dominant justice orientation and the under-valued care orientation. Based on her discernment of a voice of care, Gilligan challenges the adequacy of a deontological liberal framework for moral development and moral theory. This paper examines how the orientations of justice and care are played out in medical ethical theory. Specifically, I question whether the medical moral domain is adequately described by the norms of i…Read more
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51Behind closed doors: Accountability and responsibility in patient careJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 25 (1). 2000.In this paper, I examine the notion of accountability and its historical evolution in health care. Using medical mistakes and adverse patient outcomes as my focus, I examine the interests served by particular models of accountability and argue for a model of collective fiduciary responsibility in U.S. health care today.
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13The politics, economics, and ethics of "appropriateness"Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 (4): 337-343. 1997.: The terms "appropriate" and "necessary" are crucial determinants in decisions regarding the use and reimbursement of medical treatments. This paper encourages greater awareness of the political, economic, and normative assumptions that give meaning to these concepts
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