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

Update

In this issue:

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

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 …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Changing World Of Genetics And Abortion: Why The Women's Movement Should Advocate For Limitations On The Right To Choose In The Area Of Genetic Technology, Renee C. Esfandiary

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1998

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Reconstruing Genetic Research As Research, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

No abstract provided.