Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent 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 Dec 2020 What Does the Public Need to Know About Brain Death? Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1047-1054. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1047. Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Death’s Troubled Relationship With the Law Brendan Parent, JD and Angela Turi Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1055-1061. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1055. 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 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 Dec 2020 What Does the Public Need to Know About Brain Death? Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1047-1054. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1047.
Medicine and Society Dec 2020 Death’s Troubled Relationship With the Law Brendan Parent, JD and Angela Turi Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1055-1061. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1055.
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.