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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

Oncolog, Volume 47, Number 09, September 2002, Kerry L. Wright, Dawn Chalaire, Karyn Hede, Martin L. Smith Std, Anne J. Flamm Jd

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues)

• Is Hormone Replacement Therapy an Option for Women with a History of Breast Cancer?
• Breast Cancer Survivor Devotes Life to Helping Those at High Risk for Hereditary Cancers
• "I Have Something to Tell You." Counselors Support Family Communication about Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer
• DiaLog: Bigger than a Blood Test: Ethical Cautions about Genetic Testing, by Martin L. Smith, STD, and Anne J. Flamm, JD
• House Call: Just a Phase: Understanding Clinical Trials
• Discovery Sheds Light on How Breast Cancer Cells Progress to More Aggressive Forms

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

No abstract provided.

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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Perceptions On Bioethics Among General Practitioners In Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Hafeez Qureshi, Iqbal Azam, Syed Sohail Ali, Semi Ayub

Department of Family Medicine

Objective: To study the perceptions on bioethics among general practitioners in Karachi, Pakistan.
Design: A questionnaire based cross sectional survey. Settings: 85 general practitioners in Karachi were surveyed at their clinic premises. Main outcome measures: Perceptions on the broad principles of bioethics.
Results: The majority of general practitioners were males, with mean age of 36.3 years, had minimal postgraduate qualifications and continuing medical education. They reported the top five moral duties of a physician and their reaction in the event of the death of a close relative due to a doctor's negligence. A significant number of respondents agreed …