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D'Oh! An Analysis Of The Medical Care Provided To The Family Of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson, Charles Weijer Dec 1998

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 Dec 1998

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

Update

In this issue:

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


Monitoring Informed Consent In An Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk To Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman Oct 1998

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 Oct 1998

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 Oct 1998

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


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

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

Update

In this issue:

-- The Practice of the Ministry of Medicine


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

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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 Jun 1998

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.


Political Correctness Revisited, Jan Narveson May 1998

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


Self Interest Is Not The Sole Legitimate Basis For Making Decisions, Charles Weijer Mar 1998

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

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer Feb 1998

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 Feb 1998

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 Jan 1998

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 …


A Study In Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria In A Twenty-Year Sample Of Nsabp And Pog Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, Amina Riaz Jan 1998

A Study In Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria In A Twenty-Year Sample Of Nsabp And Pog Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, Amina Riaz

Charles Weijer

We studied changes in eligibility criteria--the largest impediment to patient accrual--in two samples of clinical trials. Trials from the NSABP (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Program) and POG (Pediatric Oncology Group) were analyzed. After eliminating duplications, the criteria in each protocol were enumerated and classified according to a novel schema. NSABP trials contained significantly more criteria than POG trials, and added precision criteria (making study populations homogeneous) at a faster rate than POG studies. The difference between NSABP studies (explanatory trials) and POG studies (pragmatic trials) suggest that large numbers of eligibility criteria are not necessary for quality studies. …


Cloning People: A Jewish Law Analysis Of The Issues, Michael J. Broyde Jan 1998

Cloning People: A Jewish Law Analysis Of The Issues, Michael J. Broyde

Faculty Articles

This Article is an attempt to create a preliminary and tentative analysis of the technology of cloning from a Jewish law perspective. Like all preliminary analyses, it is designed not to advance a rule that represents itself as definitive normative Jewish law, but rather an attempt to outline some of the issues in the hope that others will focus on the problems and analysis found in this Article and will sharpen or correct that analysis. Such is the way that Jewish law seeks truth.

In the case of cloning-as with all advances in reproductive technology- the Jewish tradition is betwixt …


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

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

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

  • Director's Corner: Individual and Community by Robert P. Lawry
  • Good-bye, Denise
  • Ethics Dinner Features Barbara J. Blodgett
  • Dr. Caroline Whitbeck Presents Inaugural Lecture
  • News & Notes


Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Research Methods And Policies, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Research Methods And Policies, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Reconstruing Genetic Research As Research, M. Therese Lysaught Dec 1997

Reconstruing Genetic Research As Research, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

No abstract provided.