Past Issues: Medical Ethics Journal

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Spring, 2008

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  The ethical challenge posed by surgical innovation
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is it physician-assisted suicide?
• The Legal Column:
  Gestational carriers
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Before I Die
• Dialogue:
  Medical ethics during war

Winter, 2008

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  Medical ethics during war
• Ask the Ethicist:
  When consent to serve as a research subject is not informed
• The Legal Column:
  The fed's role in public health emergencies
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  In the land of pain
• Dialogue:
  Patients with chronic states of impaired consciousness

Fall, 2007

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  The minimally conscious state: ethics and diagnostic nosology
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Conflicting duties: an ethical dilemma in transfusion medicine
• The Legal Column:
  The Stark self-referral law
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Slow Man
• Dialogue:
  Nonotechnology in context

Spring, 2007

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  Nanotechnology and nonoethics
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is it justified to breach confidentiality to protect a patient from abuse?
• The Legal Column:
  Medical marijuana--a clash of science, politics and the law
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Without
• Dialogue:
  Legal challenges at the limits of viability

Winter, 2007

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  Ethics at the limits of viability
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is HIPAA in the room?
• The Legal Column:
  Do tissue banks have a First Amendment right not to tell potential donors about for-profit processors?
• A Medical Ethics Forum from the University of Minnesota:
  Risks posed by new biomedical
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Middlesex: A novel
• Dialogue:
  Another view on ethics and politics

Fall, 2006

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  The relationship between ethics and politics
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is this patient brain-dead?
• The Legal Column:
  Patient safety meets fraud and abuse
• A Medical Ethics Forum from the University of Minnesota:
  Risks posed by new biomedical
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Nobody ever said AIDS
• Dialogue:
  Holding mechanisms responsible

Spring, 2006

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In this Issue:

• Feature:
  Free will and moral responsibility in the age of neuroscience
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Must physicians respect an incompetent patient’s refusal of treatment?
• The Legal Column:
  Choosing paternalism?
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  In the line of duty: SARS and physician responsibility in epidemics
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  My Sister’s Keeper
• Dialogue:
  How much suffering is enough?

Winter, 2006

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• Feature:
  Euthanasia for existential reasons
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Should a PVS patient be a live organ donor?
• The Legal Column:
  Donor rights and registries
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  The politicization of science
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  And a time to die
• Dialogue:
  Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination

Fall, 2005

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• Feature:
  Transgenderism
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Does anyone actually invoke their hospital futility policy?
• The Legal Column:
  Who should capture the value of donated tissue?
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  Soliciting organs on the Internet
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Million dollar booboo
• Dialogue:
  The politics of embryo transfer

Spring, 2005

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• Feature:
  Embryo Adoption
• Ask the Ethicist:
  When is resuscitation not medically indicated?
• The Legal Column:
  Maternal infanticide and the insanity defense
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  The Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: medical professionalism, dual loyalty and human rights
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  "Foolsbus" in American Spectacles and Other Cultivated Illusions
• Dialogue:
  Are human gene banks worth it?

Winter, 2005

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• Feature:
  Human Gene Banks
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Should this 96-year-old woman be allowed to die?
• The Legal Column:
  Legal Issues in the Use of Controlled Substances in Pain Management
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  The Medical Ethics Forum From Harvard Medical School
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  End of the Line: Depression and Burnout in Ward No. 6
• Dialogue:
  Bioethics in space

Fall, 2004

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• Feature:
  Ethics for astronauts
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Can an HIV-positive woman be forced to take medicine to protect her fetus?
• The Legal Column:
  Sticker shock-hospital billing and class action litigation
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  Politics, social priorities and biomedical research: Is the integrity of science being undermined to serve political goals?
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
• Dialogue:
  Bioethics in culturally diverse societies

Spring, 2004

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• Feature:
  Bioethics in culturally diverse societies
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Does preoperative consent include postoperative complications?
• The Legal Column:
  The Texas "futility" procedure: no such thing as a fairy-tale ending
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  Ending dialysis: New perspectives on end-of-life considerations
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Dirty Pretty Things: narrative frame for black market organ sale
• Dialogue:
  The total artificial heart and the morality of killing

Winter, 2004

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• Feature:
  The total artificial heart: Is paying for it immoral and stopping it murder?
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Should a clinical trial coordinator blow the whistle?
• The Legal Column:
  Keeping genetic secrets
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  The misuse of antibiotics
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Long for This World
• Dialogue:
  Who does the ethics consultation serve?

Fall, 2003

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• Feature:
  The value of an ethics consultation
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Live organ donation: determining the mental age of consent
• The Legal Column:
  Traumatic brain injury and criminal responsibility
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  Organs for sale? The economics of altruism
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic
• Dialogue:
  The amoral roots of morality

Spring, 2003

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• Feature:
  The biological basis of morality
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Conflicting roles for the physician
• A Medical Ethics Forum from Harvard Medical School:
  Why Oregon matters: death, assisted suicide and the principle of double effect
• The Legal Column:
  The Wendland case: on families and fantasies
• Ethics and the Humanities:
  So Far From God
• Dialogue:
  Ethics and fetal research

Winter, 2003

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• Feature:
  An ethical framework for fetal research
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is terminal sedation really euthanasia?
• The Legal Column:
  Thwarting assisted suicide threatens palliative care
• Ethics and the humanities:
  The Lovely Bones
• Dialogue:
  The characteristics of information and avoiding surprises

Fall, 2002

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• Feature:
  What information should be disclosed to patients?
• Ask the Ethicist:
  A teenager's refusal of assent for treatment
• The Legal Column:
  Governmental bioethics commissions: The nature of the beast
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• Dialogue:
  Heating up the conversation?

Spring, 2002

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• Feature:
  Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: Beginning a long conversation
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Is this incest?
• The Legal Column:
  Behavioral genetics: Can we prevent crimes before they are committed?
• Ethics and the humanities:
  The Diagnosis
• Dialogue:
  Why pharmacogenomics is good for ethics

Winter, 2002

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• Feature:
  Pharmacogenomics: promise, prospects, and potential problems
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Conflicting advance directives
• The Legal Column:
  The human chimera patent initiative
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk
• Dialogue:
  The nature of morality: The category of bad acts

Fall, 2001

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• Feature:
  The nature of morality
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Should a medical practice accept a gift with strings attached?
• The Legal Column:
  Financial interests and research protections: Can they coexist?
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic Illness
• Dialogue:
  Reason and repugnance

Spring, 2001

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• Feature:
  Genetically modified organisms
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Family Demand for Futile Treatment
• The Legal Column:
  Informed consent for stem cell research using frozen embryos
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Wit
• Dialogue:
  Implantable brain chips - will they change who we are?

Winter, 2001

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• Feature:
  Implantable brain chips: ethical and policy issues
• Ask the Ethicist:
  The patient in the middle — when perspectives differ
• The Legal Column:
  End of life decision-making for patients with dementia
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
• Dialogue:
  Equity in liver allocation

Fall, 2000

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• Feature:
  The fight over how to allocate livers
• Ask the Ethicist:
  When the school bus driver is a drinker
• The Legal Column:
  Pregnant women and their fetuses: legal and ethical issues
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Wrongful Death: A Memoir
• Dialogue:
  Bioethics: then and now

Spring, 2000

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• Feature:
  Bioethics: then and now
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Would you tell the patients?
• The Legal Column:
  Contracting for healthcare quality
• Ethics and the humanities:
  Antonia's Line: a portrayal of care-centered ethics
• Dialogue:
  Prenatal diagnosis

Winter, 2000

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• Feature:
  Social and ethical challenges of prenatal diagnosis
• Ask the Ethicist:
  A dispute in withdrawing life-sustaining therapy
• The Legal Column:
  Legal pitfalls of cybermedicine
• Ethics and the humanities:
  The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
• Dialogue:
  Religion and bioethics

Fall, 1999

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• Feature:
  Religion and the public discourse of bioethics
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Must multiorgan donors be brain dead?
• The Legal Column:
  Outpatient commitment laws: forcing mentally ill patients to take their medication
• Ethics and Literature:
  The Doctor Stories
• Dialogue:
  Genetic enhancement

Spring, 1999

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• Feature:
  Genetic enhancement: a conceptual and ethical challenge for gene therapy regulation
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Posthumous sperm retrieval
• The Legal Column:
  The controversy over recovered memories
• Ethics and Literature:
  Conquering SchizophreniaA Father, His Son and a Medical Breakthrough
• Dialogue:
  Feminist approaches to bioethics

Winter, 1999

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• Feature:
  Feminist approaches to bioethics
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Organizational ethics: Physician compensation in managed care
• The Legal Column:
  Rights and responsibilities of gamete donors
• Ethics and Literature:
  Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
• Dialogue:
  The concept of brain death

Fall, 1998

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• Feature:
  Defending challenges to the concept of "brain death"
• Ask the Ethicist:
  A lesbian couple who both want a biologic link to their offspring
• The Legal Column:
  Confidentiality in the age of the electronic medical record
• Ethics and Literature:
  The Mortal Presidency
• Dialogue:
  Cloning Human Beings

Spring, 1998

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• Feature:
  Human embryo research: What are the issues?
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Complications at birth
• The Legal Column:
  Patient rights and consumer rights in managed care
• Ethics and Literature:
  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Dialogue:
  Clinical practice guidelines: The problem of imposing industrial models on health care

Winter, 1998

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• Feature:
  Practice guidelines and medical ethics
• Ask the Ethicist:
  Managing cross-cultural conflicts in the doctor-patient relationship
• The Legal Column:
  Testing for cancer susceptibility genes
• Ethics and Literature:
  The Cunning Man
• Dialogue:
  Commentary on human cloning

Fall, 1997

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