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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman
Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the international nursing community the discrepancy between a pervasive ‘caring’ nursing discourse and the most unethical nursing practice in the United States. In this article, we present a duality: the conflict in American prisons between nursing ethics and the killing machinery. The US penal system is a setting in which trained healthcare personnel practices the extermination of life. We look upon the sanitization of death work as an application of healthcare professionals’ skills and knowledge and their appropriation by the state to serve its ends. A review of …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2003-2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2003-2004
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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The Conception View Of Personhood: A Review, Dennis M. Sullivan
The Conception View Of Personhood: A Review, Dennis M. Sullivan
Science and Mathematics Faculty Publications
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Physician Incentives: Managed Care And Ethics, Douglas A. Mains, Alberto Coustasse, Kristine Lykens
Physician Incentives: Managed Care And Ethics, Douglas A. Mains, Alberto Coustasse, Kristine Lykens
Management Faculty Research
The authors review the principle features of the managed care system in an effort to understand the ethical assumptions inherent in managed care. The interrelationships among physician incentives, responsibilities of patients and the physician-patient relationship are examined in light of the ethical concerns identified in the managed care system. The managed care system creates ethical tensions for those who influence the allocation of scare resources. Managed care's administrative controls have increasingly changed the doctor-patient relationship to the businessperson-consumer relationship. Managed care goals of quality and access demand that physicians be both patient advocate and organizational advocate, even though these roles …