April 7, 2020
(Newsweek) – The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly and radically disrupted any sense of normality in all aspects of medical practice in the United States. Rationing life-saving care is not something American doctors are accustomed to consciously consider in our daily … Read More
April 7, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 12, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Evidence First, Practice Second in Arthroscopic Surgery: Use of Placebo Surgery in Randomised Controlled Trial” by Kazuha Kizaki, Lisa J Schwartz, and Olufemi … Read More
April 6, 2020
(The Guardian) – Hospital chaplains are increasingly supporting NHS medics who are giving emotional and spiritual care to people at the end of their lives in the absence of loved ones and faith representatives. Chaplains, who offer solace and spiritual … Read More
March 27, 2020
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 19, no. 12, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Everything I Really Needed to Know to Be a Clinical Ethicist, I Learned From Elisabeth Kübler-Ross” by Mark G. Kuczewski “Psychotherapy at … Read More
March 27, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 381, no. 18, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Where Were the Women? Gender Parity in Clinical Trials” by R.H. Goldstein and R.P. Walensky “Medicine and the Mind — The … Read More
March 27, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 11, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: ““Ulysses Contracts in Psychiatric Care: Helping Patients to Protect Themselves from Spiraling” by Harriet Standing and Rob Lawlor “When Does an Advantage Become … Read More
March 25, 2020
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 40, no. 4, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Instrumentalist Analyses of the Functions of Ethics Concept-Principles: A Proposal for Synergetic Empirical and Conceptual Enrichment” by Eric Racine, M. Ariel Cascio, Marjorie … Read More
March 25, 2020
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (vol. 29, no. 3, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Error and Moral Luck” by Fritz Allhoff “The Harm of Ableism: Medical Error and Epistemic Injustice” by David M. Peña-Guzmán and … Read More
March 24, 2020
(Scientific American) – Most of us recognize that nagging feeling of regret that comes from agonizing over some real or perceived misdeed from our past. Maybe we harmed someone directly or failed to act when we felt we should. This … Read More
March 20, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 9, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethics of Limb Disposal: Dignity and the Medical Waste Stockpiling Scandal” by Esmée Hanna and Glenn Robert “‘Rethinking “Disease”: A Fresh Diagnosis and … Read More
