Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons^™

Update - December 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- John and Alice Wong establish bioethics endowment
-- Richard Rice receives Templeton Award
-- "Humans" and "Persons" in Christian Bioethics (Commentary)
-- Mechanically Restraining the Ill and Elderly: Ethical Problems and Proposals
-- Clinical Ethics Consultation
-- Learn to minister in the clinical setting

If Deliberative Democracy Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Emily Hauptmann

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented March 18, 1999 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1999

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented October 22, 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• A Look at Vichy Law
• Notice: The Center Launches Website
• Director's Corner: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Events
• Ethics Updates
• News and Notes

Update - September 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Christianity and Contraception: Seventh-day Adventist Ethical Guidelines
-- Can Christian Bioethics be Based on Reason Alone?

Self-Trust And Reproductive Autonomy, Carolyn Mcleod

Philosophy Publications

In this thesis. I give a theory of the nature of self-trust and an explanation of its role in autonomous decision-making. We tend to think of trust as essentially interpersonal which casts doubt on the coherence of the concept of self-trust. Drawing on patients' experiences in reproductive medicine. I argue that self-trust is a meaningful as well as a useful concept. I provide autobiographical sketches of a number of women's experiences. supplemented by my own observations made while doing a clinical practicum in reproductive medicine, to illustrate that what many women feel toward themselves in a variety of reproductive health …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1999

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Update - June 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- February conference will examine future of faith-based health care
-- Stephen G. Post and the Debatable Demise of Dualism
-- A Tale of Two Physicians

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• CPE Celebrates Success With Rosenberg Project "Drama Discussions"
• Ethics Fellow Sadowsky Wins Award and Nomination
• Guest Director's Corner: Gift and Commodity by Edward Lawry
• Ethical Russian Entrepreneurship: Does It Exist?
• News and Notes

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1999

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Medicaid Fraud: Medical Students' And Physicians' Attitudes And Perceptions, Kristin M. Byars

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes and perceptions of medical students and physicians concerning Medicaid fraud. The primary tool was an anonymous survey distributed to both medical students and physicians in the Hampton Roads area. Previous research suggests that physicians would be more likely to view Medicaid fraud as less serious and less justifiable than medical students would. Since little research looks specifically at the attitudes and perceptions of medical students and physicians two theories, Differential Association and the Theory of Organizational Misconduct, were used because they best fit the research already out there. The analyses …

Update - March 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Mark Carr, Richard Rice and Siroj Sorajjakool join LLU Faculty of Religion
-- Scholars, Clinicians, and Patients Highlight February Palliative Care Conference
-- [ The Meaning of Pain and Suffering ]
-- MA in Clinical Ethics
-- MA in Clinical Ministry

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1 Issue 3, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Richard Weisberg; author & scholar, to address CWRU
• Update on Ethics Fellows and Associates
• Regulating Ethics
• Porn on Campus: What are the Issues?
• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• CWRU Says Good-bye to Tom Murray ....With a Smile
• News and Notes

Ada Constitution & Bylaws (1999), 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.

Trudy Govier’S Dilemmas Of Trust, Carolyn Mcleod, S. Burns

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.

Self-Determination And The Wrongfulness Of Death, Robert A. Burt

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Pharmacists, Physician-Assisted Suicide, And Pain Control, Alan Meisel

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Physician In End-Of-Life Care: What More Can We Do?, Dewitt C. Baldwin Jr.

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Medicaring: Quality End-Of-Life Care, Anne M. Wilkinson, Janet Heald Forlini

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Hospice At The Crossroads: Can It Survive?, David A. Simpson

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Wesley J. Smith, Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide To Legalized Murder, Julie A. Finegan

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

The Catholic Merger Crusade, Hollie J. Paine

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Religious Attitudes Toward Cloning: A Tale Of Two Creatures, Dena S. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This Essay offers one analytic structure with which to approach the study of religious responses to cloning and suggests that, whereas the negative reactions are tied to a Frankenstein approach--that is, one which uses all the horror of that myth to express our fears about humans getting into the creation business--the more positive reactions express what I will call the Golem approach, based on a lesser-known legend.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Panel Meets to Discuss Hate Crime Legislation
• Voices of Diversity
• Director's Corner: Distraction & the Good Society by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics in Leadership
• Jean Bethke Elshtain Addresses CWRU
• News and Notes

The Human Genome Project's Implications For Autonomy, Respect, And Professionalism In Medical Genetics, Roger B. Dworkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Biotech Century (Book Review), Philip A. Reed

STEMPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Patient Safety, Risk Reduction, And The Law, Larry I. Palmer

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.