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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Liability For Life, Carl E. Schneider
Liability For Life, Carl E. Schneider
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Marshall Klavan headed the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center. He deeply feared strokes, perhaps because his father had been savaged by one. In 1993, Dr. Klavan wrote an advance directive which said that (as a court later put it) "he 'absolutely did not want any extraordinary care measures utilized by health care providers.'" On April29, 1997, Dr. Klavan tried to kill himsel£ He left suicide notes and a note refusing resuscitation. The next morning, medical center employees found him unconscious and took him to the emergency room, where he was resuscitated. By May 2, Dr. Klavan …
Enough: The Failure Of The Living Will, Angela Fagerlin, Carl E. Schneider
Enough: The Failure Of The Living Will, Angela Fagerlin, Carl E. Schneider
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Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so. We should have known it would fail: A notable but neglected psychological literature always provided arresting reasons to expect the policy of living wills to misfire. Given their alluring potential, perhaps they were worth trying. But a crescendoing empirical literature and persistent clinical disappointments reveal that the rewards of the campaign to promote living wills do not justify its costs. Nor can any degree of tinkering ever make the living will an effective instrument of social policy. As the evidence of failure has mounted, living wills have …
Bioethical Malpractice: Risk And Responsibility In Human Research, Barbara A. Noah
Bioethical Malpractice: Risk And Responsibility In Human Research, Barbara A. Noah
Faculty Scholarship
This Article provides an overview of Institutional Review Board (IRB) operations, reviews the sources of regulatory guidance, and examines the weaknesses of the existing system for the protection of human research subjects. It then discusses the scant case law relating to IRB negligence in the protection of human research subjects and explores some hypothetical circumstances under which it may be appropriate to hold a board accountable for injuries to clinical trial participants. Finally, this Article considers the potential consequences of expanded IRB liability, concluding that tort lawsometimes may serve an important function as a catalyst to regulatory reform when professional …
American Bioethics And Human Rights: The End Of All Our Exploring, George J. Annas
American Bioethics And Human Rights: The End Of All Our Exploring, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
In his compelling novel Blindness, José Saramago tells us about victims stricken by a contagious form of blindness who were quarantined and came to see themselves as pigs, dogs, and “lame crabs.” Of course, they were all human beings - although unable to perceive themselves, or others, as members of the human community. The disciplines of bioethics, health law, and human rights are likewise all members of the broad human rights community, although at times none of them may be able to see the homologies, even when responding to a specific health challenge.
The boundaries between bioethics, health law, and …
Politics, Morals And Embryos, George J. Annas
Politics, Morals And Embryos, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
Bioethics in the United States reflects US culture and tends to be pragmatic, market-oriented and insular. Add embryo politics to this mix and, over the past few years, the result has been a bioethics that has become so narrow and selfabsorbed as to be virtually irrelevant to the rest of the world. Not all the blame for this can be placed on President George W. Bush’s political agenda for his President’s Council on Bioethics, now in its third year of operation, but much can. The council has made public bioethics the servant of politics by pursuing a narrow, embryo-centric agenda. …
Bioethics? The Law And Biomedical Advance, Roger B. Dworkin
Bioethics? The Law And Biomedical Advance, Roger B. Dworkin
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Benumbed, Carl E. Schneider
Benumbed, Carl E. Schneider
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I originally intended to write a column on tort liability and research ethics, and I still plan to do so. But this column is a cri de coeur as I finish another semester teaching law and bioethics. This year, I asked with growing frequency, urgency, and exasperation, "Must law's reverence for autonomy squeeze out the impulse to kindness? Where is the beneficence in bioethics?" These questions assail me every term. Why? Consider Steele v. Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board. Mr. Steele was involuntarily "hospitalized after his family reported that he was 'seeing things and trying to fight imaginary …