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Morality Versus Slogans, Bernard Gert

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, April 1, 1988.

Update - December 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Australia's Herbert Clifford will lecture at Loma Linda on February 24
-- Claremont Conference endorses "The Right to Choose Death"
-- Michael and Helen Pearson arrive from England
-- Contributors receive monthly audio cassettes

[ Nancy Cruzan and the Courts ]
-- The Persistent Vegetative State
-- Nancy Cruzan is Already Dead
-- Nancy Cruzan is Not a Vegetable
-- My Family's Anguish

-- The Right to Choose Death

Update - November 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Character, Virtue, and Self-Interest in the Ethics of the Professions (Excerpts from the Second Annual Jack W. Provonsha Lecture)
-- Minnesota Bioethics Retreat and Conference

Ethical Decision Making By British General Practitioners, Ronald Christie, Charles Freer, Barry Hoffmaster, Moira Stewart

C. Barry Hoffmaster

General practitioners in England and Wales were sent a questionnaire asking how they would handle the ethical problems posed by six case vignettes and their reasons for their decisions. The ethical problems included: how much information to divulge to patients, how extensively a physician should become involved in the lifestyles of patients and how to deal with a possible family problem. The varying patterns of response to the six cases suggested that ethical issues are resolved in a case-by-case, not a theoretical, basis.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner by Bob Lawry
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" The Bodies

Surrogate Parenting And Fundamental Rights, Paul J. Denenfeld

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This essaya originated in symposium presentations made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, January 20, 1989.

Surrogate Parenting: The Michigan Legislation, Lucille Taylor, Paul Denenfeld

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Surrogate Parenting: The Michigan Legislation essays by: Lucille Taylor Paul Denenfeld. These essays originated in symposium presentations made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, January 20, 1989. Lucille Taylor is Majority Counsel, Michigan State Senate Paul Denenfeld is Legal Director, ACLU Fund of Michigan

Surrogate Parenting Legislation In Michigan: Background And Review, Lucille S. Taylor

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This essay originated in symposium presentations made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, January 20, 1989.

Anencephalic Newborns As Organ Donors: An Assessment Of "Death" And Legislative Policy, Kathleen L. Paliokas

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Update - September 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Waitzkin, Kirkendahl and Likens debate National Health Plan
-- Gerald and Betty Winslow accept positions at Pacific Union College
-- Edmund Pellegrino delivers Jack Provonsha Lecture

[ Clinical Medical Ethics ]
-- Insights and Inquiries: Reflections on a Clinical Medical Ethics Internship
-- A Baby is Dying
-- Manners and Morals in Clinical Medicine

Recurrent/Persistent Pneumonia In A 3 1/2-Year-Old-Girl Due To Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome., Ricardo Castro, Md, Joel Klein, Md, Rajeswary Padmalingam, Md, Stephen C. Eppes, Md

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

The following is the report of the first case of a Delaware born child who developed AIDS, born from a mother who was not in a high risk camp.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, June 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner: Morality and Ethics in Today's Society by Bob Clarke
• Bob Clarke Retires
• A Word From the Director Emeritus
• News & Notes

Update - June 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Etienne-Emile Baulieu discusses RU486
-- Walters edits War No More?

[ Abortion: Ethical Issues ]
-- Excerpts of papers presented at the "Abortion: Ethical Issues and Options" international conference

-- Elder, Guy, Provonsha and Winslow assess AIDS at A.P.C.

Should I (Legally) Be My Brother's Keeper?, Gilbert Geis

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 27, 1987.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, March 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• College Educated Black Women: Career Challenges and Dilemmas by May Wykle, Ph.D.
• Notice Conference: 'Family and Career; An Uneasy Partnership"

Codes Of Ethics In Business, Michael Davis

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 26, 1988.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner: Personal Reflections on the History of the Center by Bob Clark
• Notice: Center for Professional Ethics Spring 1989 Programs

Do Professors Need Professional Ethics As Much As Doctors And Lawyers?, James W. Nickel

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Published by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

Animal Bite Infections., Joel D. Klein, Md

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

Animal bites have become alarmingly common and may represent a quiet epidemic. It is estimated that between 1 and 3.5 million animal bites occur annually in the United States. The highest incidence has consistently been in 5-to-14-year-old schoolchildren, who have greater contact with animals, especially house pets, on a daily basis. This article discusses the epidemiology, microbiology, clinical findings and management of animal bites infections.

Conversations With Veterinary Students: Attitudes, Ethics, And Animals, Harold A. Herzog, Tamara L. Vore, John C. New Jr.

Attitudes Towards Animals Collection

Interviews were conducted with 24 graduating veterinary students to examine (a) changes in their attitudes toward animals; (b) the types of experiences and procedures that they found personally distressing; (c) their perceptions of the most important ethical issues that they will face in private practice; and (d) their responses to euthanizing animals. Students’ responses differed considerably. For example, about half of the students claimed that they were not affected by euthanasia, but another 25% still were struggling with this aspect of their professional role. Rationalization was a common mechanism by which the students attempted to deal with stressful experiences. It …

Public Accountability And Medical Device Regulation, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

In enacting the Medical Device Amendments of 1976, Congress instituted a flexible system of regulatory controls over a vast array of health care products. Analyzing the complex statute and its legislative history, Professor Leflar finds at the law's core a structure designed to ensure the Food and Drug Administration's accountability to the public for its regulatory actions. Reviewing the history of FDA's implementation of the medical device law, however, the author demonstrates that FDA has strayed widely and, he contends, illegally from the congressionally mandated structure of public accountability. In particular, in its review of new-model medical devices in the …