Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062. Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823. Medicine and Society Jul 2022 Co-creating an Art Exhibition on Living Well With Dementia Gloria Puurveen, PhD, Susan M. Cox, PhD, Natasha Damiano, MA, Heather Neale Furneaux, MFA, and Samantha Pineda Sierra, MFA This article considers ethical questions raised during development of an online art exhibit for and with people with dementia and their care partners. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(7):E622-633. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.622. Medicine and Society Oct 2023 Prioritizing Diversion and Decarceration of People With Dementia Lay Kodama, MD, PhD, Brie Williams, MD, MS, and Nathaniel P. Morris, MD An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E783-790. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.783. Medicine and Society Jul 2017 Transcending the Tragedy Discourse of Dementia: An Ethical Imperative for Promoting Selfhood, Meaningful Relationships, and Well-Being Peter Reed, PhD, MPH, Jennifer Carson, PhD, and Zebbedia Gibb, PhD Authentic partnerships with people with dementia motivate full social participation and resist fatalism around experiences of illness. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):693-703. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.msoc1-1707. Medicine and Society Jul 2017 Arts Participation: Counterbalancing Forces to the Social Stigma of a Dementia Diagnosis Beth Bienvenu, PhD and Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA Arts participation can counterbalance the social stigma of Alzheimer’s disease by fostering the autonomy and creativity of those with the diagnosis. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):704-712. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.msoc2-1707. Medicine and Society Nov 2019 How to Integrate Lived Experience Into Quality-of-Life Assessment in Patients Considering Facial Transplantation Laura L. Kimberly, MSW, MBE, Allyson R. Alfonso, Elie P. Ramly, MD, Rami S. Kantar, MD, Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, and Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS Facial transplantation must establish approaches to assessing QoL in candidates and recipients that use meaningful outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E980-987. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.980.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062.
Medicine and Society Oct 2021 “Aren’t Surgery and Palliative Care Kind of Opposites?” Myrick C. Shinall Jr, MD, PhD Seeming incongruity between surgery and palliation reiterates patients’ needs for clinicians to be able to identify when and how they should coexist. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E823-825. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.823.
Medicine and Society Jul 2022 Co-creating an Art Exhibition on Living Well With Dementia Gloria Puurveen, PhD, Susan M. Cox, PhD, Natasha Damiano, MA, Heather Neale Furneaux, MFA, and Samantha Pineda Sierra, MFA This article considers ethical questions raised during development of an online art exhibit for and with people with dementia and their care partners. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(7):E622-633. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.622.
Medicine and Society Oct 2023 Prioritizing Diversion and Decarceration of People With Dementia Lay Kodama, MD, PhD, Brie Williams, MD, MS, and Nathaniel P. Morris, MD An aging prison population means more people who are incarcerated will experience dementia and related symptoms. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(10):E783-790. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.783.
Medicine and Society Jul 2017 Transcending the Tragedy Discourse of Dementia: An Ethical Imperative for Promoting Selfhood, Meaningful Relationships, and Well-Being Peter Reed, PhD, MPH, Jennifer Carson, PhD, and Zebbedia Gibb, PhD Authentic partnerships with people with dementia motivate full social participation and resist fatalism around experiences of illness. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):693-703. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.msoc1-1707.
Medicine and Society Jul 2017 Arts Participation: Counterbalancing Forces to the Social Stigma of a Dementia Diagnosis Beth Bienvenu, PhD and Gay Hanna, PhD, MFA Arts participation can counterbalance the social stigma of Alzheimer’s disease by fostering the autonomy and creativity of those with the diagnosis. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(7):704-712. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.7.msoc2-1707.
Medicine and Society Nov 2019 How to Integrate Lived Experience Into Quality-of-Life Assessment in Patients Considering Facial Transplantation Laura L. Kimberly, MSW, MBE, Allyson R. Alfonso, Elie P. Ramly, MD, Rami S. Kantar, MD, Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, and Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS Facial transplantation must establish approaches to assessing QoL in candidates and recipients that use meaningful outcomes. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E980-987. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.980.