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Family Duty Is More Important Than Rights, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

Family Duty Is More Important Than Rights, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Ethics In Academia, Diether Haenicke Dec 2000

Ethics In Academia, Diether Haenicke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.


Ethics In Academia, 2000, Wmu Center Of The Study Of Ethics In Society Dec 2000

Ethics In Academia, 2000, Wmu Center Of The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.


Walking The Walk --- The Reality Of Ethics In The University Presidency, Elson Floyd Dec 2000

Walking The Walk --- The Reality Of Ethics In The University Presidency, Elson Floyd

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.


The Ethics Center At Fifteen Years, Michael Pritchard Dec 2000

The Ethics Center At Fifteen Years, Michael Pritchard

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.


The Quality Of Mercy, The Public Trust, And Ethical Issues In Higher Education, Elise Bickford Jorgens Dec 2000

The Quality Of Mercy, The Public Trust, And Ethical Issues In Higher Education, Elise Bickford Jorgens

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.


The Ethical Analysis Of Risk, Charles Weijer Nov 2000

The Ethical Analysis Of Risk, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Benefit-Sharing And Other Protections For Communities In Genetic Research, Charles Weijer Oct 2000

Benefit-Sharing And Other Protections For Communities In Genetic Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Clinical Equipoise And Not The Uncertainty Principle Is The Moral Underpinning Of The Randomised Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer, Stanley Shapiro, Kathleen Glass Sep 2000

Clinical Equipoise And Not The Uncertainty Principle Is The Moral Underpinning Of The Randomised Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer, Stanley Shapiro, Kathleen Glass

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Research Into Rotavirus Vaccine, Charles Weijer Sep 2000

The Future Of Research Into Rotavirus Vaccine, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Reporting The Study Populations Of Clinical Trials. Clear Transmission Or Static On The Line?, Stanley Shapiro, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman Aug 2000

Reporting The Study Populations Of Clinical Trials. Clear Transmission Or Static On The Line?, Stanley Shapiro, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman

Charles Weijer

In contrast to attempts that have been made to measure the clarity of reporting of the methods of clinical trials in journal articles, we report here an attempt to measure the accuracy of methods reporting. We focus in this article on eligibility criteria as a test case for the reporting of clinical trial methods. We examined the reporting of eligibility criteria in the protocol, methods paper (if applicable), journal article, and Clinical Alert for articles appearing in print between January 1988 and September 1994 for which a Clinical Alert had been issued. Eligibility criteria were further classified into five categories …


Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Aug 2000

Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Protecting Communities In Biomedical Research, Charles Weijer, E. Emanuel Aug 2000

Protecting Communities In Biomedical Research, Charles Weijer, E. Emanuel

Charles Weijer

Although for the last 50 years, ethicists dealing with human experimentation have focused primarily on the need to protect individual research subjects and vulnerable groups, biomedical research, especially in genetics, now requires the establishment of standards for the protection of communities. We have developed such a strategy, based on five steps. (i) Identification of community characteristics relevant to the biomedical research setting, (ii) delineation of a typology of different types of communities using these characteristics, (iii) determination of the range of possible community protections, (iv) creation of connections between particular protections and one or more community characteristics necessary for its …


The Sum Of My Parts, Charles Weijer Jun 2000

The Sum Of My Parts, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2000, Case Western Reserve University Jun 2000

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2000, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

  • Two Branches of the Ethics Family Tree: Edward Lawry named visiting Ethics Fellow
  • Ethical Responsibilities in Higher Education: Experiential Learning as a Model for Reform
  • When Push Come to Shove: Forced Treatment in the Community Setting
  • Director's Corner: Surviving Survivor by Robert P. Lawry
  • Summer 2000: News, Notes, and Future Events


A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, And Identity, Charles Weijer May 2000

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, And Identity, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


How Children And Adolescents Relate To Nature, Patricia Nevers May 2000

How Children And Adolescents Relate To Nature, Patricia Nevers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 21,1999.


Bioethics: An Anthology, Charles Weijer Apr 2000

Bioethics: An Anthology, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


An Historical Take On The Physician's Charter, Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer Apr 2000

An Historical Take On The Physician's Charter, Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2000, Case Western Reserve University Mar 2000

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2000, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

  • Continuing The Observer Debate: A Panel Discussion on Law, Religion, and Homosexuality
  • Thinking about Ethics: Quotable Quotes
  • Kimberly Adams-Davis: From Cowboy Nurse to Primary Healthcare Advocate
  • Three Judges Weigh In: The Art of Judging: How Do Judges Judge?
  • Director's Corner: The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited by Robert P. Lawry
  • Spring 2000: News, Notes, and Events


Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer Feb 2000

Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer

Philosophy Presentations

This presentation addresses these questions:
• “Upon what ethical grounds may the physician offer RCT enrollment to a patient?”
• Which is the preferred moral basis of the RCT?


Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer Jan 2000

Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

This presentation addresses these questions:
• “Upon what ethical grounds may the physician offer RCT enrollment to a patient?”
• Which is the preferred moral basis of the RCT?


Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, And Health Care For Patients Who Are Oppressed, Carolyn Mcleod, Susan Sherwin Jan 2000

Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, And Health Care For Patients Who Are Oppressed, Carolyn Mcleod, Susan Sherwin

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.


Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2000, Case Western Reserve University Jan 2000

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2000, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

  • Don't Lump Press in with Media: Ted Gup Speaks about Journalism's Bad Press
  • Thinking about Ethics: Quotable Quotes
  • The Dark Days of France: A Look at Vichy Law, Part II
  • Director's Corner: Not Allowed to Shrug by Robert P. Lawry
  • News, Notes, and Events


The Ethical Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Human Subjects Research: History, Theory, And Implications For U.S. Regulation, Charles Weijer Dec 1999

The Ethical Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Human Subjects Research: History, Theory, And Implications For U.S. Regulation, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

This paper addresses three questions central to the ethical analysis of risks and potential benefits in human subjects research:

1. How was the ethical analysis of risk understood by the members of the U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (National Commission)?
2. What conceptual framework should guide the ethical analysis of risk?
3. What changes to U.S. regulations would the implementation of such a framework require?


Legal And Ethical Issues In Geriatric Medicine, Heather Macdonald, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer Dec 1999

Legal And Ethical Issues In Geriatric Medicine, Heather Macdonald, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


When Doctors Say "No", Charles Weijer Dec 1999

When Doctors Say "No", Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Canada’S First Gene Therapy Death, Charles Weijer Dec 1999

Canada’S First Gene Therapy Death, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Ethical Challenges Of The Randomized Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer Dec 1999

Ethical Challenges Of The Randomized Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.