Author / Monica Delles
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The Courts and Medical Futility
Thaddeus Pope, director of the Health Law Institute and an Associate Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled “The Courts, Futility and the Ends of Medicine.”
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The Cruzan Family 20 Years Later
Twenty years after Nancy Cruzan died following years of litigation and public strife over the right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment, Nancy’s sister Chris Cruzan White and her two daughters, Angie Broaddus and Miranda Lewis, look back and at what lay ahead.
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The Elderly and Public Transportation
By 2015, more than 15.5 million Americans are expected to live in communities where public transportation is poor or nonexistent.
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The End of Life Scare
Health reform must address improving end-of-life care.
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The Ethics of Disaster Readiness
An earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri. It seems we’re experiencing more and more damaging disasters.
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The Ethics of Donation after Cardiac Death
The debate continues on the ethics of donating organs after cardiac death.
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The Ethics of Rationing Healthcare
Milton Friedman once said there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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The Ethics of Research to Benefit Pregnant and Fetal Patients
Dr. Laurence McCullough of the Baylor College of Medicine discusses his article, “An Ethically Justified Framework for Clinical Investigation to Benefit Pregnant and Fetal Patients,” in the May 2011 edition of the American Journal of Bioethics.
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The Ethics of Selling Human Eggs
Some compelling questions in the September 1, 2010, edition of Fast Company.
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The Ethics of Translational Research
It’s called Frontiers: The Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Based at the University of Kansas Medical Center, its aim is to transform laboratory discoveries into treatments and cures.
