New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is Now Available
March 31, 2009
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 9, Issue 4, 2009) is now available by subscription only.
Articles Include:
- “Organizational Needs Versus Ethics Committee Practice” by David Magnus, 1-2.
- “Screening in the Dark: Ethical Considerations of Providing Screening Tests to Individuals When Evidence is Insufficient to Support Screening Populations” by Ingrid M. Burger and Nancy E. Kass, 3-14.
- “On Patient Requests for Unproven Screening: Dim Guidance for Screening in the Dark” by Heidi Malm, 15-17.
- “Professional Integrity and Screening Tests” by David J. Doukas, 19-21.
- “The Gray Zones of Privatized Imaging” by Patricia W. Lau and Judy Illes, 22-21.
- “Does Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Medical Technologies Undermine the Physician-Patient Relationship?” by Leah Rosenberg, 22-23.
- “The Value of Information and the Ethics of Personal-Genomic Screening” by Peter H. Schwartz, 26-27.
- “Ethical Challenges Within Veterans Administration Healthcare Facilities: Perspectives of Managers, Clinicians, Patients, and Ethics Committee Chairpersons” by  Mary Beth Foglia, Robert A. Pearlman,  Melissa Bottrell,  Jane K. Altemose, and Ellen Fox, 28-36.
- “Developing the Capacity of Ethics Consultants to Promote Just Resource Allocation” by Marion Danis and Samia A. Hurst, 37-39.
- “Roles and Responsibilities of Ethics Committees” by Rosalind Ekman Ladd, 41-42
- “Understanding the Scope of Clinical Ethics” by Monique Lanoix, 45-46.
- “Unnecessary Time Pressure in Refusal of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Fear of Missing the Opportunity to Die” by Thomas I. Cochrane, 47-54.
- “The “Window of Opportunity:†Helping Parents Make the Most Difficult Decision They Will Ever Face Using an Informed Non-Dissent Model” by Alexander A. Kon, 55-56.
- “The Straight Route to Withholding Hand-Feeding and Hydration” by Norman L. Cantor, 57-58.
- “End-of-Life Treatment Decisions: The Opportunity to Care” by Alan Jotkowitz, 59-60.
