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D'Oh! An Analysis Of The Medical Care Provided To The Family Of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Update - December 1998, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- The Bible and Bioethics: Material, Method, and Metaphor

Guidelines For The Responsible Utilization Of Intensive Care, Lawrence University, Wisconsin Health Decisions

Biomedical Ethics Publications and Presentations

These guidelines are the product of five working groups of physicians, administrators, attorneys, ethicists, social workers, nurses, hospital chaplains, and critical care nurses from Wisconsin. Dr. John Stanley, Professor Emeritus, Lawrence University, convened the group in 1994 and they presented this final document to the Wisconsin health care community in October 1998.

These documents are not meant to be strict guidelines to be imposed, but rather resources that present the best thinking and practice at a particular time and place.

Monitoring Informed Consent In An Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk To Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Bioethics For Clinicians: 16. Dealing With Demands For Inappropriate Treatment, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer, Bernard Dickens, Stephen Workman

Charles Weijer

Demands by Patients or their Families for treatment thought to be inappropriate by health care providers constitute an important set of moral problems in clinical practice. A variety of approaches to such cases have been described in the literature, including medical futility, standard of care and negotiation. Medical futility fails because it confounds morally distinct cases: demand for an ineffective treatment and demand for an effective treatment that supports a controversial end (e.g., permanent unconsciousness). Medical futility is not necessary in the first case and is harmful in the second. Ineffective treatment falls outside the standard of care, and thus …

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Tom Anderson Appointed as Ethics Fellow
• Director's Corner: Off base / On Base, by Robert P. Lawry
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Morally Permissible?
• In Memorium: Marliln Samuels, 1996 Fellow
• News and Notes

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Update - October 1998, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- The Practice of the Ministry of Medicine

Health Care Surrogate Statutes: Ethics Pitfalls Threaten The Interests Of Incompetent Patients, Aaron N. Krupp

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Assisted Suicide, Liberalism, And Law In The United States, Michael Moreland

Michael P. Moreland

No abstract provided.

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Update - July 1998, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Christianity and Human Cloning - A Seventh-day Adventist Declaration of Ethical Principles
-- Cloning: Dolly's Mother is Her Sister!?
-- Hello, Dolly! Dolly! Dolly!

Cpr For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State?, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Summer 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Striving To Be Good by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice: We Welcome Suggestions
• Groups as Gatekeepers to Genetic Research
• Searching for Foundations: Feminist and Postmodern Approaches to Philosophy
• News & Notes
• Doing Ethics
• Ethics Case: Professionalism

Affirmative Action: Diverse Goals, Diverse Policies, Eric Wampler

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Affirmative Action: A Contradiction Of Theory And Practice, Kimberly Hellmers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Introduction, Joseph Ellin

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

The Forgotten Factor: The Economic Principles Of Affirmative Action, Patrick Kinuthia

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

University Policy, Affirmative Action, And The Principles Of Justice, Eric Wampler

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Affirmative Action: A Vision For Today, Wmu Center For The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the W.esley Foundation.

Affirming The Affirmative Action Intention, Barbra Jotzke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Pain Management And Palliative Care In The Era Of Managed Care: Issues For Health Insurers, Diane E. Hoffmann

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Political Correctness Revisited, Jan Narveson

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented February 19th , 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society

The Changing World Of Genetics And Abortion: Why The Women's Movement Should Advocate For Limitations On The Right To Choose In The Area Of Genetic Technology, Renee C. Esfandiary

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Self Interest Is Not The Sole Legitimate Basis For Making Decisions, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Update - March 1998, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Two centers cut ribbon at new quarters
-- The Hippocratic Oath: Is It Still Relevant?
-- The Hippocratic Oath (as translated by Ludwig Edlestein, 1943)
-- The Physician's Oath Loma Linda University School of Medicine
-- Christian Theology and the Hippocratic Oath
-- MA in Clinical Ethics
-- MA in Clinical Ministry

The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State: Futile Or Acceptable?, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Interpretation Of Criteria For Clinical Trial Eligibility: A Survey Of Oncology Investigators, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Myriam Skrutkowska, Maria Sigurjonsdottir

Charles Weijer

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether eligibility criteria that exclude the elderly, persons with psychiatric disease, and persons with substance abuse problems from participation in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are subjective and hence a source of variability in enrolment decisions and investigator uncertainty.

DESIGN: Survey questionnaire.

PARTICIPANTS: Cancer investigators from the United States and Canada.

INTERVENTIONS: Investigators were presented with clinical vignettes from 3 patient categories--eligible, ineligible and uncertain--for each of 5 eligibility criteria--3 subjective and 2 objective--and were asked whether they would enrol the patient in a trial and how sure they were of this decision. Demographic characteristics of the investigators …