Author / Monica Delles
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Removing Kidneys Before Death
Should we remove kidneys from a dying person before they are dead?
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Religion. Healthcare Policy. Do the Twain Meet?
Rosemary Flanigan, PhD, explores what it means to have a “religious consciousness” and how having such a consciousness affects our thinking as we deal with life and death issues, as well as a host of bioethical issues facing us today.
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Rationing Just Medical Care
US politicians and policymakers are preoccupied with how to pay for healthcare.
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Rationing Care to Elderly and Terminal Patients
Harvey Tettlebaum, partner with the Husch Blackwell Law Firm, and Sandy Silva, program associate at the Center for Practical Bioethics, address whether rationing care to elderly and terminal patients is ethically or legally appropriate under any circumstances. (Nov. 29, 2011)
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Promise and Pitfalls of Transitions in Health Care
Transitions of Care: Promises and Pitfalls is the subject of a presentation Penny Feldman, PhD, of the Vising Nurse Service of New York will deliver in Kansas City on April 20, 2012.
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Preview of A Nation in Pain by Judy Foreman
A 2011 Report on Pain by the Institute of Medicine indicates some 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.
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Preventing Unethical Research
There are no guarantees against unethical research.
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Prescription Drug Abuse in the State of Washington
Myra Christopher, Kathleen Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics, discusses why cooler heads must rise above the rhetoric in the state of Washington when it comes to new legislation attempting to reduce prescription drug abuse.
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Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Aging America
Phil Stafford, Director, and Mia Oberlink, Manager, Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, discuss the tool they created to collect and measure communities’ performance in four domains of older adult-friendliness.
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Placebos: Deceptive or Legitimate?
The December 2009 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics features articles examining the ethics of using placebos in clinical practice.
