Author / Monica Delles
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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.
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Pioneers in Bioethics on the Future of Bioethics
Two pioneers of bioethics – Rosemary Flanigan and Robert Potter, get together to talk about the past and what the future will bring.
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PCORI Perspectives on Pragmatic Research
Suzanne Schrandt, JD, Deputy Director for Patient Engagement at the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Pain is Hard: The Complexity of Pain Treatment
Rollin “Mac” Gallagher, MD, provides an overview of his presentation, “Pain is Hard: The Complexity of Pain Treatment,” presented at a pain symposium in Kansas City on April 26, 2011. (April 8, 2011)
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Pain and the Critical Care Nurse
Damon Cottrell, RN, discusses the ethical challenges a critical care nurse faces on a typical day, especially when it comes to the treatment of pain. (February 1, 2012)
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Pain and Public Health: Symptom or Disease?
Daniel Goldberg of East Carolina University explains why viewing pain as a disease symptom – rather than a disease itself – has contributed to the neglect of this condition in the world of public health. (October 18, 2011)
