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Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, November 1987, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Preparation for Practice; The Ethical Dimension by M.C. "Terry" Hokenstad
• Notice: Dialogue Forum "The Ethics of Individualism: A Constitutional Perspective"

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1987, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• CPE Receives Endowment
• Ethics, Character and the Professional, by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice: Monday Evening Dialogue Forums
• Notice: Conferences
• Notice Seminar: "Systems of Ethical Decision-Making"
• Notice: Six-Week Study Group on Ethics

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Summer 1987, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Center's Executive Committee is Planning the Fall 1987 Program
• Notice: Monday Evening Dialogue Forums
• Notice Seminar: "Systems of Ethical Decision-Making"
• Notice: Six-Week Study Group on Ethics
• Nursing Ethics by Barbara J. Daly
• Notice: Remember These Numbers

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, March/April 1987, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Monday Evening Dialogue Forums for March and April
• Ethics and The Society by Robert W. Clarke

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1987, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Monday Evening Conversation, January 26, 1987, "Contragate: The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law"
• The Center's Executive Committee Designs a New Program Format for the First Half of 1987
• Law and Morality by Robert P. Lawry
• Book Review: Habits of the Heart by Michelle B. Creger
• Book Review: Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education by Wendy Miano
• Book Review: The Foundations of Bioethics by Dr. Mary Briody Mahowald

Organ Procurement, Values And Public Policy, Ronald P. Hamel

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The success of organ transplants in recent years has created a shortage of transplantable cadaver organs. Voluntarism, the primary mode of organ procurement currently in use nationwide, appears to be no longer successful. Policy makers and others are examining alternatives to the current system, namely, presumed consent (routine salvaging) and required request. In this process, there is a danger in considering only the effectiveness of the means and neglecting the value and belief commitments that underlie them. These need to be brought to the surface because they ultimately contribute toward shaping the moral character of society. In this light, required …