Clinical ethics and the road less taken: Mapping the future by tracking the past

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 218-225

  Rubin, Susan B ^a   Zoloth, Laurie ^b,c,d,e,f  

^a Ethics Practice   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Program in Bioethics   (United States)

^d University of Maryland School of Law   (United States)

^e NASA National Advisory Council

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICS; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 3142622833     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2004.tb00468.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

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2. K. Teel, "The Physician's Dilemma: A Doctor's View: What the Law Should Be," Baylor Law Review 27 (1975): 668-69.
3. While the literature documents discussion of this point, see for example, M. D. Swenson and R. B. Miller, "Ethics Case Review in Health Care Institutions: Committees, Consultants, or Teams?" Archives of Internal Medicine 152 (1992): 694-97, there is no consensus on which model might be preferred. In fact, the Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation, a report of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, arguably the most recent consensus document bearing on this point explicitly chose to not take a position on whether ethics consultation is best done by individuals, teams, or committees. See American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (Glenview, Illinois: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 1998).
4. While the literature documents discussion of this point, see for example, M. D. Swenson and R. B. Miller, "Ethics Case Review in Health Care Institutions: Committees, Consultants, or Teams?" Archives of Internal Medicine 152 (1992): 694-97, there is no consensus on which model might be preferred. In fact, the Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation, a report of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, arguably the most recent consensus document bearing on this point explicitly chose to not take a position on whether ethics consultation is best done by individuals, teams, or committees. See American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (Glenview, Illinois: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 1998).
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10. B. Freedman, "Where Are The Heroes of Bioethics?" Journal of Clinical Ethics 7 (Winter 1996): 297-99.
11. E. Loftus, "Creating False Memories," Scientific American 277 (1977): 70-75.
12. We have called for the discipline's attention to this issue in S. B. Rubin and L. Zoloth, Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in the Practice of Medicine (Hagerstown, Maryland: University Publishing Group, 2000).
13. See most recently the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (Glenview, Illinois: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 1998).