Can There Be A Progressive Bioethics?, 2010 University of Michigan Law School
Can There Be A Progressive Bioethics?, Richard O. Lempert
Book Chapters
Progressive bioethics-the words are not an oxymoron. Far from it; they are more redundant than oppositional. Yet they leave me almost as uneasy, as if they were contradictory. My unease exists because bioethics should be neither progressive nor regressive, neither right wing nor left wing, neither liberal nor conservative. It should be just good, sound ethics applied to the often difficult moral problems posed by present-day medicine and the genomic revolution.
I do not mean to suggest by this that all bioethicists need agree. Respectable ethicists using established modes of ethical analysis have long disagreed on and argued for different …
Effect Of Visual Media Use On School Performance: A Prospective Study, 2010 Jefferson Medical College
Effect Of Visual Media Use On School Performance: A Prospective Study, Iman Sharif, Md, Mph, Thomas A. Wills, Phd, James D. Sargent, Md
Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers
Purpose: To identify mechanisms for the impact of visual media use on adolescents' school performance.
Methods: We conducted a 24-month, four-wave longitudinal telephone study of a national sample of 6,486 youth aged 10 to 14 years. Exposure measures: latent construct for screen exposure time (weekday time spent viewing television/playing videogames, presence of television in bedroom) and variables for movie content (proportion of PG-13 and R movies viewed).
Outcome measure: self- and parent reports of grades in school. Effects of media exposures on change in school performance between baseline and 24 months were assessed using structural equation modeling. Information about hypothesized …
Ada Constitution & Bylaws (2010), 2010 American Dental Association
Ada Constitution & Bylaws (2010), American Dental Association
Constitution & Bylaws
The ADA Commons Constitution & Bylaws archival collection comprises printed issues of the American Dental Association's Constitution and Bylaws. The collection also includes the ADA Charter and the ADA Code of Ethics issued 1924-1946.
Ada Code Of Ethics (January 2010), 2010 American Dental Association
Ada Code Of Ethics (January 2010), American Dental Association
Code of Ethics
The ADA Code of Ethics has three main components: The Principles of Ethics, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Advisory Opinions. Contents may also include: Amendment to ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct and Insert for the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct. The most current issue is available on the ADA’s website.
Bioethics And Biosecurity Education In China: Rise Of A Scientific Superpower., 2010 University of Michigan Law School
Bioethics And Biosecurity Education In China: Rise Of A Scientific Superpower., Barr S. Michael, Joy Yueyue Zhang
Book Chapters
This chapter explores ethics, education and the life sciences in China. It is based on work conducted by the authors in two separate but complimentary projects. Barr’s observations derive from interviews and discussions in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou with life scientists and policymakers in infectious-disease hospitals, university-research labs, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Health. Zhang’s study focused on China’s governance of stem-cell research and involved interviews with scientists, ethicists and policymakers at more than 25 sites across China. Below, we set the context by describing the role of science in China’s quest to become a leading …
Price And Pretense In The Baby Market, 2010 Duke Law School
Price And Pretense In The Baby Market, Kimberly D. Krawiec
Faculty Scholarship
Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bought and sold each day. As demonstrated in this Essay, the legal baby trade is a global market in which prospective parents pay, scores of intermediaries profit, and the demand for children is clearly differentiated by age, race, special needs, and other consumer preferences, with prices ranging from zero to over one hundred thousand dollars. Yet legal regimes and policymakers around the world pretend that the baby market does not exist, most notably through prohibitions against “baby selling” – typically defined as a prohibition against the …
Closing The Medical Buffet, 2009 Bond University
Closing The Medical Buffet, Katrina Bramstedt
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Extract:The standard hotel breakfast buffet includes trays of eggs Benedict, bacon, oatmeal, sliced fruit, muffins and bagels. Now imagine another type of buffet: the medical buffet. Instead of food, imagine a long table with segmented areas containing dialysis machines, ventilators, feeding tubes, organs for transplant, ventricular assist devices, blood for transfusion, transcutaneous electrotherapy devices, and spinal cord stimulation implants. Patients and families sometimes feel that the mere existence of a bounty of medical technology equates to their right to use it, even if the technology will offer no benefit. Skillful language from clinicians is needed in order that a message …
Science And Morals In The Affective Psychopathology Of Philippe Pinel, 2009 The University of Western Ontario
Science And Morals In The Affective Psychopathology Of Philippe Pinel, Louis Charland
Louis C. Charland
No abstract provided.
Examining The Root Cause Of Surrogate Conflicts In The Icu And General Wards, 2009 Bond University
Examining The Root Cause Of Surrogate Conflicts In The Icu And General Wards, Katrina Bramstedt, Allison Rubin
Katrina A. Bramstedt
This study is an analysis of surrogate-focused ethics consultations in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the general wards (Ward) of a large community hospital in Northern California. We identified the major themes of surrogate-focused ethics consultations to better understand the root cause of surrogate conflicts, and identified the similarities and differences between surrogate-based conflicts in the two settings. Consults requested because the surrogate had desires that conflicted with the physician’s medical opinion of ‘best interest’, or cases involving surrogates not upholding a patient’s known values reflected the root cause of the majority of surrogate conflicts (72.7% ICU, 83.3% Ward).
Reinstating The Passions: Lessons From The History Of Psychopathology, 2009 The University of Western Ontario
Reinstating The Passions: Lessons From The History Of Psychopathology, Louis Charland
Louis C. Charland
No abstract provided.
Too Poor For Transplant: Finance And Insurance Issues In Transplant Ethics, 2009 Bond University
Too Poor For Transplant: Finance And Insurance Issues In Transplant Ethics, Kyle Laurentine, Katrina Bramstedt
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Context: Donor organs are a scarce gift. Additionally, transplantation is very expensive and the United States lacks universal health insurance for all citizens. These facts combine to make personal finance and insurance some of the criteria for wait listing at US transplant centers. Previous research has shown that the poor and the uninsured (as well as women and nonwhites) are less likely to receive a transplant. Living donor candidates are also limited by the US insurance system. Objective: To determine the effect of finance and insurance variables on access to transplant and living donation. Design: A qualitative descriptive study of …