Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Health Law Nov 2021 Should Employment Division v Smith Be Overturned? Jake Greenblum, PhD and Ryan Hubbard, PhD Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(11):E864-868. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.864. Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986. Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010. Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019. Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038. 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. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. State of the Art and Science Jan 2021 How Should We Regard Information Gathered in Nazi Experiments? Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E55-58. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.55. Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Health Law Nov 2021 Should Employment Division v Smith Be Overturned? Jake Greenblum, PhD and Ryan Hubbard, PhD Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(11):E864-868. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.864.
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
Health Law Dec 2020 Reexamining the Flawed Legal Basis of the “Dead Donor Rule” as a Foundation for Organ Donation Policy Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE The DDR requires organ donors to be dead according to legal criteria prior to organ removal, and it’s rooted in fears of civil and criminal liability. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1019-1024. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1019.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038.
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.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
State of the Art and Science Jan 2021 How Should We Regard Information Gathered in Nazi Experiments? Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E55-58. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.55.
Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59.
