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The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law

1990

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Re-Thinking Euthanasia And Death With Dignity: A Transnational Challenge, George P. Smith Ii Jan 1990

Re-Thinking Euthanasia And Death With Dignity: A Transnational Challenge, George P. Smith Ii

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The Ethics Of Ethics Committees, George P. Smith Ii Jan 1990

The Ethics Of Ethics Committees, George P. Smith Ii

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In 1983, The President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research urged greater use of medical ethics committees. The Commission suggested that these committees could not only review treatment decisions made on behalf of incompetent, terminally ill patients and conduct reviews of those medical decision having ethical implications, but could also provide spiritual, psychological or social counseling for distressed family members. They could, furthermore, serve as prognosis committees endeavoring as such to confirm those prognoses which finds no reasonable possibility of a patient’s return to cognitive state. Today, more and more, ethics committees …


Assisted Noncoital Reproduction: A Comparative Analysis, George P. Smith Ii Jan 1990

Assisted Noncoital Reproduction: A Comparative Analysis, George P. Smith Ii

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This article, written in the last ten years of the 20th century, presents an historical metric of geopolitical, socio-legal, ethical, medical, and religious responses to noncoital reproduction in Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States — as well as the various efforts of the United Nations — to protect reproductive freedoms as human rights. From this analysis will come an understanding of how these responses shape normative values, principles, regulatory policies and laws which in turn seek — at various levels — to monitor and even control scientific inquiry, advance social justice and safeguard procreative liberties for women. The U.S. …


The Frankenstein Myth And Contemporary Human Experimentation: Spectre, Legacy, Curse Or Imperative, George P. Smith Ii Jan 1990

The Frankenstein Myth And Contemporary Human Experimentation: Spectre, Legacy, Curse Or Imperative, George P. Smith Ii

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