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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Trusting Doctors: Tricky Business When It Comes To Clinical Trials, Frances H. Miller
Trusting Doctors: Tricky Business When It Comes To Clinical Trials, Frances H. Miller
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This article examines the troublesome ethical dilemmas arising out of physician conflicts of interest in the context of research on human beings. It focuses on the inevitable conflict between the objectives of clinical investigators and those of their human subjects to illuminate subtle divergences of interest in doctor-patient relationships that patients often do not recognize - or want to believe. Once perceived, however, these potentially corroding conflicts can stun research subjects and their families, and leave them feeling deeply betrayed by their clinicians. The article concludes that a researcher's substantial financial conflicts constitute material information which, absent compelling circumstances, the …
The Limits Of Law At The Limits Of Life: Lessons From Cannibalism, Euthanasia, Abortion, And The Court-Ordered Killing Of One Conjoined Twin To Save The Other, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
The subject is law at the beginning and end of life. Most of my work is in the area of general health law: law and medicine, public health law, and health and human rights. But this is my favorite subject area, and I expect you to ask me the hardest questions you can. I am not saying I can answer them, but if I cannot that is my fault, not yours. I am going to make a pretty broad argument today about law and medicine; specifically about how new medical technology and medical practice standards have eclipsed religion (and sometimes …