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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2002

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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The Future And The Structure And Content Of The Cloning Debate, Harlan Stelmach

Harlan Stelmach

Matters Of Life And Death: Making Moral Theory Work In Medical Ethics And The Law, James Anderson, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2002

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Attitudes Regarding Organ Donation From Non-Heart-Beating Donors, Sean Keenan, Barry Hoffmaster, Frank Rutledge, Jeannette Eberhard, Liddy Chen, William Sibbald

C. Barry Hoffmaster

PURPOSE: To determine the attitudes toward organ donation from non-heart-beating cadaver donors in a sample of the general public and health care workers.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A moderator-administered questionnaire was completed by members of the general public, recruited randomly from a professional consumer research group's database, and health care workers recruited from the same database, family practice clinics, and local hospitals. Two primary scenarios were tested: (1) patient in coma, not going to survive intensive care unit (ICU), and (2) patient lapsing in and out of consciousness, lifetime institutional care.

RESULTS: Sixty members of the general public and 68 health …

Two Concepts Of Immortality: Reframing Public Debate On Stem-Cell Research, Frank Pasquale

Faculty Scholarship

Regenerative medicine seeks not only to cure disease, but also to arrest the aging process itself. So far, public attention to the new health care has focused on two of its methods: embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning. Since both processes manipulate embryos, they alarm those who believe life begins at conception. Such religious objections have dominated headlines on the topic, and were central to President George W. Bush's decision to restrict stem-cell research.

Although they are now politically potent, the present religious objections to regenerative medicine will soon become irrelevant. Scientists are fast developing new ways of culturing the …

Mediating Disputes In Managed Care: Resolving Conflicts Over Covered Services, Nancy Neveloff Dubler

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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