Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent 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. 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. Case and Commentary Sep 2007 Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere Marta Kolthoff, MD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(9):605-610. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.9.ccas2-0709. Case and Commentary Jun 2007 Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons Louise P. King, MD, JD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):418-422. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.ccas3-0706. Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803. Case and Commentary Oct 2014 Sex Selection for Family Balancing Harry J. Lieman, MD and Andrzej K. Breborowicz, MD, PhD Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing? Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(10):797-802. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.10.ecas3-1410. Health Law Nov 2014 The Decriminalization of Sodomy in the United States Richard Weinmeyer, JD, MPhil State laws prohibiting sodomy were on the books throughout US history until struck down by the US Supreme Court, which argued in Lawrence v Texas (2003) that the state cannot criminalize private sexual conduct. Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(11):916-922. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.11.hlaw1-1411. Case and Commentary Aug 2010 Justice in Medicine: Conscience Must Not Undermine Patients’ Autonomy and Access to Care Carolyn W. April Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):622-627. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.conl1-1008. Case and Commentary Aug 2010 Applying the Concept of Judicious Dissent in Matters of Conscience Patrick C. Beeman, MD Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):628-633. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.conl2-1008. Health Law Aug 2010 The LGBT Community, Health Policy, and the Law Ryan Bailey Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):658-662. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.hlaw1-1008. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
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.
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.
Case and Commentary Sep 2007 Assisted Reproduction and Primum Non Nocere Marta Kolthoff, MD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(9):605-610. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.9.ccas2-0709.
Case and Commentary Jun 2007 Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons Louise P. King, MD, JD Virtual Mentor. 2007;9(6):418-422. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.ccas3-0706.
Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803.
Case and Commentary Oct 2014 Sex Selection for Family Balancing Harry J. Lieman, MD and Andrzej K. Breborowicz, MD, PhD Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing? Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(10):797-802. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.10.ecas3-1410.
Health Law Nov 2014 The Decriminalization of Sodomy in the United States Richard Weinmeyer, JD, MPhil State laws prohibiting sodomy were on the books throughout US history until struck down by the US Supreme Court, which argued in Lawrence v Texas (2003) that the state cannot criminalize private sexual conduct. Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(11):916-922. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.11.hlaw1-1411.
Case and Commentary Aug 2010 Justice in Medicine: Conscience Must Not Undermine Patients’ Autonomy and Access to Care Carolyn W. April Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):622-627. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.conl1-1008.
Case and Commentary Aug 2010 Applying the Concept of Judicious Dissent in Matters of Conscience Patrick C. Beeman, MD Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):628-633. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.conl2-1008.
Health Law Aug 2010 The LGBT Community, Health Policy, and the Law Ryan Bailey Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):658-662. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.hlaw1-1008.