CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2011
Original Contributions:
How Mediation (and Other) Approaches May Improve
Ethics Consultants’ Outcomes
Edmund G. Howe
Consensus, Clinical Decision Making, and Unsettled Cases
David M. Adams and William J. Winslade
The Role of the Clinical Ethics Consultant in “Unsettled” Cases
David M. Adams
The Roles of the Ethics Consultant
William J. Winslade
Confronting Ambiguity: Identifying Options for Infants with
Trisomy 18
Sabrina F. Derrington and April R. Dworetz
“Facilitated Consensus,” “Ethics Facilitation,” and Unsettled
Cases
Mark P. Aulisio
Commentary on “Consensus, Clinical Decision Making,
and Unsettled Cases”
Albert R. Jonsen
Final Comments
David M. Adams and William J. Winslade
Ill-Placed Democracy: Ethics Consultations and the Moral
Status of Voting
Autumn M. Fiester
Commentary on Fiester’s “Ill-Placed Democracy:
Ethics Consultations and the Moral Status of Voting”
Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Clinical Ethics Consultation’s Dilemma, and a Solution
Lisa M. Rasmussen
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RECENT ISSUES
Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2011
Original Contributions:
Ethical Challenges When Patients Have Dementia
Edmund G. Howe
Incapable Sex: A Case Study
Bethan J. Everett
Training Currently Practicing Members of the Ethics
Consultation Service: One Institution’s Experience
Rebecca L. Volpe
Accuracy of a Decision Aid for Advance Care Planning:
Simulated End-of-Life Decision Making
Benjamin H. Levi, Steven R. Heverley, and Michael J. Green
Advance Care Directives: Realities and Challenges in
Central California
Marc Tunzi
Introduction to “Exemplary Cases in Clinical Ethics”
Leslie LeBlanc
Clinical Ethics Case Report: Questionable Capacity
and the Guidance of Living Wills
Ari VanderWalde
Exemplary Cases in Clinical Ethics:
Commentary on the Case of Mr. A.
Jeffrey Spike
Mind the Gap: The Lack of Common Language in
Healthcare Ethics
Michael A. Kekewich, Dorothyann Curran,
Jennifer L. Cornick, and Thomas C. Foreman
Perspective: The Findings of the Dartmouth Atlas Project:
A Challenge to Clinical and Ethical Excellence in End-of-Life Care
John J. Mitchell, Jr.
Legal Briefing: Futile or Non-Beneficial Treatment
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2011
Original Contributions:
Helping Patients by Involving Their Families
Edmund G. Howe
Responsive Care Management: Family Decision Makers in Advanced
Cancer
Mary Ann Meeker
Trusting Families: Responding to Mary Ann Meeker,
“Responsive Care Management: Family Decision Makers in
Advanced Cancer”
James Lindemann Nelson
Revisiting the Best Interest Standard: Uses and Misuses
Douglas S. Diekema
The Best Interest Standard: Both Guide and Limit to
Medical Decision Making on Behalf of Incapacitated Patients
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Between Uncertainty and Certainty
Lena Hoff and Göran Hermerén
A Systematic Review of Activities at a High-Volume
Ethics Consultation Service
Courtenay R. Bruce, Martin L. Smith, Sabahat Hizlan, and
Richard R. Sharp
Report of the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs:
Professionalism in the Use of Social Media
Rebecca Shore, Julia Halsey, Kavita Shah, Bette-Jane Crigger,
and Sharon P. Douglas
Online Professionalism: Social Media, Social Contracts, Trust,
and Medicine
Lois Snyder
Medical Professionalism: A Tale of Two Doctors
Tristan Gorrindo and James E. Groves
Nonclinical Use of Online Social Networking Sites: New and Old
Challenges to Medical Professionalism
Lindsay A. Thompson and Erik W. Black
Blurring Boundaries and Online Opportunities
Jeanne M. Farnan and Vineet M. Arora
Physician, Monitor Thyself: Professionalism and Accountability in the
Use of Social Media
Tara Lagu and S. Ryan Greysen
Social Media and Interpersonal Relationships: For Better or Worse?
Norman Quist
Certifying Clinical Ethics Consultants: Who Pays?
Marianne Burda
Volume 22, number 1, Spring 2011
Original Contributions:
How Can Careproviders Most Help Patients during a Disaster?
Edmund G. Howe
Imagining the Unthinkable, Illuminating the Present
Jeffrey T. Berger, Guest Editor, Special Section: Clinical Ethics in Catastrophic Situations: Mapping a Standard of Care—Imagining the Unthinkable
An Ethical Framework for the Responsible Management of
Pregnant Patients in a Medical Disaster
Frank A. Chervenak and Laurence B. McCullough
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to Limit the Transmission of a Pandemic Virus: The Need for Complementary Programs to
Address Children’s Diverse Needs
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria and Emily A. Thorell
Unaltered Ethical Standards for Individual Physicians in the Face of Drastically Reduced Resources Resulting from an Improvised
Nuclear Device Threat
J. Jaime Caro, C. Norman Coleman, Ann Knebel, and
Evan G. DeRenzo
Attending to Social Vulnerability When Rationing Pandemic
Resources
Dorothy E. Vawter, J. Eline Garrett, Karen G. Gervais,
Angela Witt Prehn, and Debra A. DeBruin
Ethical Care for Infants with Conditions Not Curable with Intensive Care
Bethan J. Everett and Susan G. Albersheim
Priority Setting Up Close
Barbara Russell and Deb deVlaming
Personal Perspective: “Evidence-Debased Medicine” and the
Integrity of the Medical Profession
Richard L. Elliott
Legal Briefing: Healthcare Ethics Committees
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Letters:
Letter: Ethical Issues Related to Direct Nursing Care Time,
Compared to Time Spent Charting in Intensive Care Units
Peter Roffey and Duraiyah Thangathurai
Letter: Esprit de Corps
Evan G. DeRenzo and Jack Schwartz
Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 2010
Original Contributions:
A Possible Application of Care-Based Ethics to People with Disabilities during a Pandemic
Edmund G. Howe
Bedside Ethics and Health System Catastrophe: Imagine If You Will . . .
Jeffrey T. Berger, Guest Editor
Family Participation in the Care of Patients in Public Health Disasters
Tia Powell
Sufficiency of Care in Disasters: Ventilation, Ventilator Triage, and the Misconception of Guideline-Driven Treatment
Griffin Trotter
Pandemic Preparedness Planning: Will Provisions for Involuntary Termination of Life Support Invite Active Euthanasia?
Jeffrey T. Berger
Should Palliative Care Be a Necessity or a Luxury during
an Overwhelming Health Catastrophe?
Philip M. Rosoff
Taking Seriously the “What Then?” Question: An Ethical Framework for the Responsible Management of Medical Disasters
Laurence B. McCullough
The Elephant in the Room: Collaboration and Competition among Relief Organizations during High-Profile Disasters
Italo Subbarao, Matthew K. Wynia, and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr.
Medical School Oath-Taking: The Moral Controversy
Robert M. Veatch and Cheryl C. Macpherson
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources to the Overweight
Adrian Furnham, Niroosha Loganathan, and Alastair McClelland
Legal Briefing: Crisis Standards of Care and Legal Protections during Disasters and Emergencies
Thaddeus Mason Pope and Mitchell F. Palazzo
Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2010
Original Contributions:
All Careproviders Need More Opportunities to Share their Ethical Concerns with Others Edmund G. Howe
The Rational Choice Model in Family Decision Making at the End of Life
Alison Karasz, Galit Sacajiu, Misha Kogan, and Liza Watkins
“Broken Covenant”: Healthcare Aides’ “Experience of the Ethical” in Caring for Dying Seniors in a Personal Care Home
Susan McClement, Michelle Lobchuk, Harvey Max Chochinov, and Ruth Dean
Characterizing the Risk in Pediatric Research: An Ethical Examination of the Federal Regulations Maynard Dyson and Kayhan Parsi
Protection of Children in Research: Beyond Pediatric Risk Levels: The Emergence of the Research Subject Advocate Tomas J. Silber
Infant Heart Transplantation after Cardiac Death: Ethical and Legal Problems
Michael Potts, Paul A. Byrne, and David W. Evans
Dying But Not Killing: Donation after Cardiac Death Donors and the Recovery of Vital Organs Armand H. Matheny Antommaria
Building Esprit de Corps: Learning to Better Navigate between “My” Patient and “Our” Patient Evan G. DeRenzo
and Jack Schwartz
Esprit de Corps: The Possibility for the Best Care a Hospital Can Provide
Norman Quist
Legal Briefing: Organ Donation and Allocation
Thaddeus Mason Pope
The Ambiguous Effects of Tort Law on Bioethics: The Case of Doctor-Patient Communication
Dena S. Davis
Letter:
Business Interests versus Informed Consent
Duraiyah Thangathurai and Peter Roffey