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Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1988, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner by Bob Lawry
• Notice: Fall 1988 Dialogue Forums
• Notice Published: The Power of the Professional Person
• Notice: New Faculty Joins the Center for Biomedical Ethics
• News & Notes

Affirmative Action Defended, Laurence Thomas

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society October 14, 1987.

Thoughts On Keeping My Mouth Shut, David H. Smith

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, April 4, 1986.

Ethics In Academia, Diether H. Haenicke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, April 4, 1986.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1988, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Notice: 1988 Spring Semester Monday Evening Dialogue Forums
• Ethics, Dentists, and Change by Sean Stephen Wotman

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"

Ethical Norms In Science, Rachelle D. Hollander

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Presented to the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

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

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, October 1986, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Professional Power and Self Regulation
• The Center is Becoming a Membership Organization
• Notice: The October Monday Evening Conversation on Ethical Issues "Is the Technological Imperative Ethically Compelling?"
• The Ethical Dilemma in American Business
• Notice: Change of Date For: Seminar on "Systems of Making Ethical Decisions"

Update - July 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Baby Jessie and Beyond
-- Newsbriefs
-- The Bouvia Decision: Right But Inadequate
-- LLU plans conference on ethics and transplantation

[ Apartheid and Morality Today ]
-- Growing Up White in South Africa
-- In Favor of Constructive Engagement
-- Divestment: Realistic Moral Opposition to Apartheid

-- What should treatment committees consider?
-- Religion and Politics on Sabbath (Editorial)
-- George Otto Schumacher, MD (1913-1986)
-- Thomas Gordon Goman, PhD (1944-1986)

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1986, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Euphoria and Temperance by Robert P. Lawry
"News and Notes:" Activities of Members of the Center's Steering Committee
• Some Sharing About the Priorities of The Center for Professional Ethics by Wendy Miano

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, March 1985, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• An Afternoon With Billy Budd
• Internal Education of the Steering Committee
• The Center's Spring Conference
• Center Activities
• Good News for the Center
• Reflections from New CPE Steering Committee Members by Carol J. Rottman and Linda Barr

Update - Winter 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Hastings Center and Ethics Center to present "Biomedical Ethics Today: Old models and New" at Loma Linda April 21 and 22
-- Maloney and Winslow address allocation
-- "Worship Aids" unite ethics and liturgy
-- Ethics Center: Priest, Prophet, or Participant? (Editorial)

[ Reflections Regarding William Bartling ]
-- Siding With Life
-- The Patient is the Final Arbiter
-- Competing Claims Make Hard Choices

-- Excerpts from the California appeals court decision
-- $200,000 given to Ethics Center

Rights And The Meta-Ethics Of Professional Morality, Mike W. Martin

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

This article looks into the Meta-Ethics of medical professionals.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, May 1979, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Incomplete issue: only Letter about "Personal Integrity and Professional Life: The Socialization of the Student" Conference by Robert Lawry

An Alternative Policy For Obtaining Cadaver Organs For Transplantation, James L. Muyskens

Publications and Research

Two moral principles have been basic to the legal decisions concerning the rights and duties toward the newly dead. They are the duty to give decent burial and the denial to anyone of a right to ownership of the dead body for commercial profit. The next-of-kin-rather than the church or the state­ have come to bear the primary responsibility for providing decent burial.

The familial duty to give decent burial has come to be understood as a legal right to determine what is to be done to the body in the interval between death and burial.

Armed with this right, …