item: #1 of 430 id: bioethics01-10098 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10098 date: 2022-11-09 words: 2102 flesch: 43 summary: The Act limits which services physicians can refuse to perform: it permits conscientious objection only if the patient requires non-emergency care. Even if legally permissible, I believe virtuous physicians do not consider patients’ sexual orientation or gender identity when deciding whether to treat them. keywords: act; identity; objection; patient; physician cache: bioethics01-10098.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10098.txt item: #2 of 430 id: bioethics01-10117 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10117 date: 2022-11-20 words: 3041 flesch: 35 summary: The History of Medical Ethics in India: Looking at the Past as We Try to Change the Future Angel Prabakar ABSTRACT India has had a solid standard for medical ethics since the birth of Ayurvedic holistic science over 5000 years ago. Medical ethics based on the values of spirituality were almost completely stripped away and replaced by Western concepts. keywords: bioethics; doctors; education; ethics; healthcare; hospitals; india; medical; system cache: bioethics01-10117.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10117.txt item: #3 of 430 id: bioethics01-10151 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10151 date: 2022-10-27 words: 1833 flesch: 38 summary: This placement of Indigenous ethics onto a second tier still demands that Indigenous patients adhere to dominant Western ethical discourses. This means that Western ethics can apply in the treatment of Indigenous patients, but that Indigenous ethics must be on an equal plane or elevated above Western ethics in the treatment of Indigenous patients. keywords: american; bioethics; care; health; patient; western cache: bioethics01-10151.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10151.txt item: #4 of 430 id: bioethics01-10155 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10155 date: 2022-11-02 words: 2388 flesch: 46 summary: I. Privacy and Confidentiality in PTG Literature The literature on PTG consistently raises patient privacy and confidentiality concerns. 2 Informal guidelines continue to address privacy and confidentiality when analyzing PTG and frame consent as necessary to respect patient privacy.3 Research articles reporting investigations of PTG also categorize privacy violations as a risk to privacy and dignity.4 The AMA does not have a PTG ethics policy, but an article on the AMA website about PTG by a staff writer stated that “physicians have a fundamental ethical responsibility to respect patient privacy.”5 keywords: confidentiality; information; patient; privacy; ptg cache: bioethics01-10155.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10155.txt item: #5 of 430 id: bioethics01-10309 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10309 date: 2023-02-16 words: 4086 flesch: 47 summary: TGD patients who pursue gender-affirmation interventions must be aware of the impact that various treatments can have on fertility, as gender-affirming care through medical or surgical treatment can limit or alter reproductive potential. This paper argues that TGD patients who pursue gender- affirmation interventions must be aware of the impact treatments can have on fertility and, ultimately, parenthood and that a design tool may help them understand the risks and make informed decisions. keywords: adults; aid; care; decision; fertility; individuals; patients; preservation; tgd; transgender cache: bioethics01-10309.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10309.txt item: #6 of 430 id: bioethics01-10310 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10310 date: 2023-01-13 words: 4233 flesch: 54 summary: The motivation for viewing how the system design for payment models use incentives under a bioethical lens is summarized below. For payment models to be considered ethical, they must align organizational incentives with patient care goals and ethics. keywords: care; ethics; fee; health; incentives; models; patient; payment; service; system; value cache: bioethics01-10310.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10310.txt item: #7 of 430 id: bioethics01-10522 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10522 date: 2023-02-11 words: 2504 flesch: 50 summary: Viewing cases through the lens of moral principles can reveal the salient moral features, but it ultimately provides no guidance for adjudication, hereby referred to as the adjudication problem. Moral intuitions can possess prejudice or ignorance, and moral principles can demonstrably conflict, offering no guidance. keywords: bioethics; guidance; principlism; theories; theory; virtue cache: bioethics01-10522.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10522.txt item: #8 of 430 id: bioethics01-10608 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10608 date: 2023-01-18 words: 2814 flesch: 46 summary: By allocating tax revenue from consumption that contributes or even alone causes poor health outcomes, such a system incorporates personal responsibility. The approach avoids determining the questionable nature of luck and personal responsibility for health outcomes, fairness in the distribution of economic burden, and the intrusiveness required to practically determine who acts in a morally wrong and health-adverse way. CYPHERS & KUFLIK, LIBERAL-EGALITARIAN SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE DILEMMAS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: behaviors; healthcare; model; people cache: bioethics01-10608.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10608.txt item: #9 of 430 id: bioethics01-10629 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10629 date: 2023-03-01 words: 2314 flesch: 44 summary: Radiologists now can more easily detect incidental findings that were in the report but not conveyed specifically and find and disclose actionable incidental findings noted in recent past radiology reports. The Duty to Easy Rescue While the duty to easy rescue is not the basis for reporting incidental findings normally, it may provide an ethical basis for the retrospective use of NLP to find actionable incidental findings that were not properly communicated or that did not lead to follow-up care. keywords: duty; findings; follow; incidental; patient; radiology cache: bioethics01-10629.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10629.txt item: #10 of 430 id: bioethics01-10723 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10723 date: 2023-04-22 words: 4661 flesch: 44 summary: Instead, these laws have created a negative bias surrounding addiction and have negatively affected particularly vulnerable patient populations, including pregnant women with substance use disorder and newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome. Keywords: Reproductive Ethics, Substance Use Disorder, Addiction, Alcohol Consumption, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome INTRODUCTION Pregnant women with substance use disorder require treatment that is arguably for the benefit of both the mother and the fetus. keywords: care; disorder; drug; neonatal; newborns; opioid; policies; pregnancy; substance; substance use; syndrome; treatment; use; women cache: bioethics01-10723.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10723.txt item: #11 of 430 id: bioethics01-10953 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-10953 date: 2023-04-19 words: 2201 flesch: 47 summary: However, just last May, the UK fertility watchdog Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) proposed scrapping anonymity for future sperm and egg donors. 18-year-olds who decide to contact their donors may be more mature than younger people conceived by donor eggs. keywords: child; children; donor; egg; identity cache: bioethics01-10953.pdf plain text: bioethics01-10953.txt item: #12 of 430 id: bioethics01-11007 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11007 date: 2023-03-21 words: 5104 flesch: 48 summary: Relating the Dead Donor Rule to Forced Organ Harvesting There is well documented evidence that in China organs have been removed before a declaration of death.45 Guiding Principle 3, which says “live organ donors should be acting willingly, free of any undue influence or coercion.”7 keywords: bioethics; china; death; donor; donor rule; harvesting; medical; organ; organ harvesting; prisoners; rights; rule cache: bioethics01-11007.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11007.txt item: #13 of 430 id: bioethics01-11030 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11030 date: 2023-05-03 words: 1208 flesch: 51 summary: Even when suboxone is diverted, studies suggest that it is diverted to those with opioid addiction who wish to manage their withdrawals – exactly those whom we would want suboxone to be reaching – rather than those who are looking to abuse the medication.10 In areas without major barriers to suboxone prescription, opioid death and addiction rates have fallen at a dramatic rate. Studies suggest that those with prescription access cut off are twice as likely to turn to heroin.6 Some die by overdose or suicide.7 To be fair, the current regulations do exhibit some regard for privacy. keywords: opioid; pdmp; prescription cache: bioethics01-11030.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11030.txt item: #14 of 430 id: bioethics01-11031 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11031 date: 2023-03-27 words: 4302 flesch: 23 summary: Enrolling research subjects subjectively excluded from allotransplantation into xenotransplant research is not a mechanism of fair access but rather an exploitation of an unjustly option- constrained vulnerable group by the clinical transplant system. Although widely used, broad categorizations create monolithic views of populations but lack clarity as to why a particular feature makes one vulnerable or what a given characteristic decidedly renders one vulnerable to.29 Individuals broadly vulnerable in society, such as the severely economically disadvantaged or incarcerated, are not necessarily vulnerable as research subjects in a given proposed trial.30 Categorical vulnerability is insufficient to recognize that research-related harm is specific to a particular subject potentially participating in a given protocol at a definite time and place. keywords: access; allograft; clinical; research; subject; transplant; trials; vulnerability; xenotransplantation cache: bioethics01-11031.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11031.txt item: #15 of 430 id: bioethics01-11036 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11036 date: 2023-03-29 words: 1601 flesch: 46 summary: COYLE & MCKINSTRY, HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF MEAT CONSUMPTION, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. We argue that reducing meat consumption has health and environmental benefits. keywords: consumption; health; human; mckinstry; meat cache: bioethics01-11036.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11036.txt item: #16 of 430 id: bioethics01-11174 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11174 date: 2023-05-05 words: 1918 flesch: 40 summary: DALLAS, DENTAL THERAPISTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. In 2009 Minnesota approved the first state-wide legislation in the US to legalize the role of dental therapists after seeing a drastic decline in their dentist-to-population ratio. keywords: care; dental; health; minnesota; patients; therapists cache: bioethics01-11174.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11174.txt item: #17 of 430 id: bioethics01-11221 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11221 date: 2023-06-24 words: 4281 flesch: 42 summary: The United States is currently experiencing a shortage of mental health providers that is expected to worsen in the upcoming years.11 Nearly half of all Americans currently live in a mental health professional desert.12 Waitlists for therapists and psychiatrists average 48 days, and individuals report not seeking mental health care due to cost or lack of insurance coverage.13 Given the significant mental health provider shortage, obstetric providers have a unique opportunity to care for the “whole patient” during and after pregnancy by addressing not only their physical health but also their mental health. Experts in the field of perinatal mental health are using perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD) as an umbrella term that includes many mental health conditions and bring to light the lack of screening and treatment for perinatal mental health in the United States. keywords: care; collaborative; depression; health; mental; model; peer; perinatal; women cache: bioethics01-11221.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11221.txt item: #18 of 430 id: bioethics01-11582 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11582 date: 2023-06-16 words: 2260 flesch: 52 summary: As long as indigenous communities are empowered to choose their path, the government must play a pivotal role in aiding adaptation and relocation. When they move, indigenous communities need the “right to safe and sanitary housing, potable water, education, and other basic amenities. keywords: change; climate; communities; culture; displacement; louisiana cache: bioethics01-11582.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11582.txt item: #19 of 430 id: bioethics01-11588 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11588 date: 2023-07-02 words: 3476 flesch: 45 summary: The Inclusion of Family Caregivers’ Perspectives in Navigating Truth-Telling Despite the demonstrated significance of family caregivers in navigating truth-telling in the care of people with dementia, current discourse on justifying deception in dementia care often overlooks the perspectives of family caregivers. As a result, family caregivers can occasionally employ carefully considered acts of beneficent deception without undermining the importance of truth-telling in dementia care. keywords: care; caregivers; dementia; family; people; truth cache: bioethics01-11588.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11588.txt item: #20 of 430 id: bioethics01-11638 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11638 date: 2023-06-24 words: 4944 flesch: 50 summary: I argue that stereotypes feed into the phenomenon of shackling pregnant women, especially pregnant women of color. In the period before childbirth, shackled pregnant women are at high risk for falling.12 The restraints shift pregnant women’s center of gravity, and wrist restraints prevent them from breaking a fall, increasing the risk of falling on their stomach and harming the fetus.13 Another aspect inhibited by using restraints is testing and treating pregnancy complications. keywords: health; labor; law; march; medical; physicians; prisoners; restraints; shackles; shackling; use; women cache: bioethics01-11638.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11638.txt item: #21 of 430 id: bioethics01-11740 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-11740 date: 2023-06-27 words: 1531 flesch: 44 summary: This short essay explores the plausible wisdom of status quo bias and questions the attempt by Bostrom and Ord to negate its influence. We can contend with this uncertainty over present adaptive value by either relying on the established patterns of judgment-formation before maladaptiveness is demonstrated or by insisting on fully rational conduct without any mental shortcuts or filtering of information. keywords: quo; status; value; wisdom cache: bioethics01-11740.pdf plain text: bioethics01-11740.txt item: #22 of 430 id: bioethics01-5829 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5829 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1168 flesch: 31 summary: With over 5 million Medicaid enrollees in New York State—over 3 million of whom reside in one of the five boroughs of New York City—this level of reduction in healthcare service utilization has the potential to save countless lives during the onslaught of a global pandemic. In New York City, these responses have included erecting makeshift field hospitals in Central Park, converting the Javits Convention Center into a 1,000-bed field hospital, and sailing the 1,000-bed USNS Comfort to Pier 88 in Manhattan. keywords: health; healthcare; new; york cache: bioethics01-5829.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5829.txt item: #23 of 430 id: bioethics01-5830 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5830 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1271 flesch: 38 summary: I have seen and heard comparisons to soldiers in war such as, “Allowing physicians and nurses to treat patients with COVID-19 without proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is like sending soldiers to war without adequate equipment.” Articles identifying the lack of personal protective equipment, physicians contracting “COVID-19,” and a lack of action on the part of hospitals and government entities are commonplace in the media.[i] Healthcare media predictions of a mass resignation by healthcare workers present seductive doomsday imagery. keywords: covid-19; medical; physicians; war cache: bioethics01-5830.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5830.txt item: #24 of 430 id: bioethics01-5832 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5832 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1470 flesch: 50 summary: Distributional fairness is of the utmost importance when a pandemic like COVID-19 roars into emergency rooms causing a nonstop pressure for more ventilators. The production of more ventilators is a looming necessity. keywords: covid-19; patients; resources; ventilators cache: bioethics01-5832.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5832.txt item: #25 of 430 id: bioethics01-5833 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5833 date: 2020-05-16 words: 3426 flesch: 30 summary: Yelling the temperature over to a different employee would be a serious breach of privacy; the employee taking customer temperatures should be trained to be discreet. In COVID-19 customer temperature screening, the person taking the temperature is likely not trained in confidentiality and not HIPAA educated. keywords: covid-19; customers; data; health; privacy; public; screening; stores; temperature cache: bioethics01-5833.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5833.txt item: #26 of 430 id: bioethics01-5890 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5890 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1502 flesch: 45 summary: Racial biases have impacted medical treatment and research as well as the code formulation for predictor algorithms already being used in health systems. Considering these examples of institutionalized racism in the history of healthcare it becomes clear that AI systems, i.e., algorithms are built on large quantities of data which inherently may contain less overt institutionalized racism and could therefore perpetuate racial bias. keywords: algorithm; data; healthcare; patients cache: bioethics01-5890.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5890.txt item: #27 of 430 id: bioethics01-5891 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5891 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1849 flesch: 38 summary: I, like many of my colleagues, never imagined a time when hospitals would ban partners and other support persons from the labor and delivery unit. These decisions must consider abilities to screen support persons, provide them with face masks, and implement surveillance measures to ensure they are following the unit’s rules. keywords: covid-19; delivery; labor; persons; support cache: bioethics01-5891.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5891.txt item: #28 of 430 id: bioethics01-5892 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5892 date: 2020-05-16 words: 5142 flesch: 49 summary: The balance of power is three-pronged: individuals, states, and the federal government vie for power yet the federal government is not promoting compelling public health orders. The second, “the paradise paradigm” sees public health policy as humanitarian, viewing “power in terms of health” rather than “health in terms of power,” and is more likely to recognize health as a human right. keywords: covid-19; good; government; health; home; morality; orders; people; public; states cache: bioethics01-5892.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5892.txt item: #29 of 430 id: bioethics01-5893 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5893 date: 2020-05-16 words: 1034 flesch: 34 summary: I will discuss the application of pragmatic bioethics to the question of the morality of abortion, specifically illustrating how three of its core concepts factor into the debate. This certainly constitutes a limitation of pragmatic bioethics on the matter of abortion, though the same is true for many ethical frameworks. keywords: abortion; bioethics; pragmatism cache: bioethics01-5893.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5893.txt item: #30 of 430 id: bioethics01-5894 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5894 date: 2020-05-17 words: 1142 flesch: 55 summary: 6 (2020) 2 Different societies and experts have been making conflicting recommendations, with some advising to err on the side of caution and ensure that all health care providers in the room caring for patients with COVID-19 wear higher level PPE, including N95 masks.2 Other societies and organizations, more concerned about equipment shortages advocate against liberal PPE use, citing insufficient evidence to make the same recommendation.3 These dichotomous decisions reflect variation in attitudes toward both risk and resource allocation. We cannot simply skip this step because the risks of exposure to health care providers is significant, and if we have to put the woman to sleep under general anesthesia, placing a breathing tube in the patient’s throat is an aerosolizing procedure. keywords: care; health; patients; ppe cache: bioethics01-5894.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5894.txt item: #31 of 430 id: bioethics01-5895 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5895 date: 2020-05-17 words: 2168 flesch: 12 summary: A study using trending Twitter hashtags found that 24.8 percent of Twitter posts included fake/false information and 17.4 percent included unverifiable information, demonstrating a significant amount of content found on social media platforms is unreliable.[v] Unfortunately, fake news or misinformation on social media is allowed to propagate without constraints, does not entail any curation or peer review, and does not require any professional verifications.[vi] Major social media companies have stated that they are working toward limiting the spread of false and deceiving misinformation like fake news because social media platforms are the medium predominantly responsible.[ii] keywords: content; coronavirus; covid-19; media; misinformation; news; spread cache: bioethics01-5895.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5895.txt item: #32 of 430 id: bioethics01-5896 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5896 date: 2020-05-17 words: 1053 flesch: 46 summary: Finally, today a journal article agrees with me.7 In the Lancet, the authors argue that recommendations on masks should be rational and that recommending universal mask wearing is within logic if there is availability. A 2013 study found surgical masks somewhat protective and possibly worthwhile when better ones are not available for healthcare workers to prevent spread of influenza.6 While data did generate numbers to estimate prevention in lives saved or disease prevented, studies of mask use by the public require largescale epidemiology and may need to be retrospective. keywords: masks; wearing; zimmerman cache: bioethics01-5896.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5896.txt item: #33 of 430 id: bioethics01-5897 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5897 date: 2020-05-17 words: 787 flesch: 26 summary: Consequently, complete bans on support persons lack scientific and clinical justification. In fact, the ban may exacerbate the current healthcare worker shortage as birthing unit staff attempt to fill the void of support persons for patients in labor. keywords: labor; persons; support cache: bioethics01-5897.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5897.txt item: #34 of 430 id: bioethics01-5898 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5898 date: 2020-05-17 words: 3127 flesch: 39 summary: The conduct of biohackers should be considered scientific research. It may even be argued that the bioethical principles, often discussed in research ethics, may align with the goals of biohackers. keywords: biohackers; biohacking; biology; castelyn; ethics; oversight; research; science cache: bioethics01-5898.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5898.txt item: #35 of 430 id: bioethics01-5899 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5899 date: 2020-05-18 words: 1450 flesch: 53 summary: COVID-19 Testing Should Be Prioritized for Those Most at Risk for Spreading the Disease and Those Interacting with Vulnerable Populations Emily Chase Keywords: COVID-19 testing, vulnerable populations, scarce resources INTRODUCTION “The more tests we run, the better,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a recent press conference.1 Testing is critical in isolating people with the virus and preventing further infection. CHASE, COVID-19 TESTING SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: covid-19; people; symptoms; testing cache: bioethics01-5899.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5899.txt item: #36 of 430 id: bioethics01-5900 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5900 date: 2020-05-18 words: 1545 flesch: 42 summary: ANALYSIS Early mortality data from China presented by the World Health Organization from February 2020 indicate the devastation of preexisting conditions. Below are data for preexisting conditions followed by death rate for confirmed cases and death rate for all cases: • Cardiovascular disease / 13.2% / 10.5% • Diabetes / 9.2% / 7.3% ZIMMERMAN, IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: cases; conditions; disease; health; obesity; people cache: bioethics01-5900.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5900.txt item: #37 of 430 id: bioethics01-5901 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5901 date: 2020-05-18 words: 4688 flesch: 43 summary: Marketing madness: The disingenuous use of free speech by big data and big pharma to the detriment of medical data privacy Anne Zimmerman* Keywords: free speech, corporate free speech, US Constitution, Sorrell v. IMS Health, confidentiality, medical data, prescribers, pharmaceutical data ABSTRACT The right to free speech has become more expansive covering pharmaceutical free speech in ways uncharacteristic of the long-accepted fundamental right. The erosion of both privacy and the individual voice’s power correspond with the uptick in recognizing previously undeclared corporate constitutional rights.11 The pharmaceutical companies’ marketing efforts take place at the expense of data privacy and confidentiality within the doctor patient relationship. keywords: court; data; law; marketing; patient; pharmaceutical; privacy; sorrell; speech; use; vermont cache: bioethics01-5901.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5901.txt item: #38 of 430 id: bioethics01-5902 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5902 date: 2020-05-18 words: 1583 flesch: 54 summary: If memory suppression technology were available, it would need to be regulated. Kaitlin Puccio Keywords: brain stimulation technology, bioethics, identity INTRODUCTION In using brain stimulation technology to suppress an individual’s fear response to a traumatic memory, we are effectively altering that individual’s identity. keywords: fear; technology cache: bioethics01-5902.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5902.txt item: #39 of 430 id: bioethics01-5903 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5903 date: 2020-05-18 words: 2360 flesch: 44 summary: Soliciting and honoring patient preferences has become an increasing focus of our healthcare system based on the core of tenet patient-centered care.8 Dr. Angela Rowe, a non-white third-year pediatrics resident, shares her experience of a white parent who refused to allow her to treat their daughter and even requested that she not touch their daughter due to her race. KIM, PATIENTS CHOOSING HEALTHCARE PROVIDER BASED keywords: doctor; healthcare; patients; physician; race; requests cache: bioethics01-5903.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5903.txt item: #40 of 430 id: bioethics01-5904 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5904 date: 2020-07-20 words: 4765 flesch: 40 summary: Furthermore, if additional physician time is needed to supervise student acquisition of additional consent, there does not yet seem to be a clear solution to adapting existing workflows to promote both medical education and patient care without overburdening physician preceptor workloads. As suggested by Hippocrates, Plato, and Alexander the Great, a patient-physician relationship functions best when physicians pro-actively involve patients in the decision-making process.28 It is also well-established that patient buy-in positively impacts patient care and health outcomes. keywords: bioethics; care; consent; education; ethics; examinations; exams; journal; medical; patients; pelvic; state; students cache: bioethics01-5904.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5904.txt item: #41 of 430 id: bioethics01-5905 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5905 date: 2020-05-19 words: 1418 flesch: 38 summary: Though Puckrein’s defense of such an apparent improvement in the lives of black patients is understandable considering past neglect, race is indeed the “coarsest of discriminators,” and its use in this context has the potential to ultimately work against the interests of Black patients by obscuring the social construction of racial categories. This obfuscation of the social construction of racial categories matters because such misunderstandings of the origins of race as biological could mean never addressing racial health disparities via the broader social subjugation that produces them. keywords: bidil; health; patients; race cache: bioethics01-5905.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5905.txt item: #42 of 430 id: bioethics01-5906 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5906 date: 2020-05-19 words: 3508 flesch: 48 summary: In adopting a standard that equates medical care to medical treatment, the BoP provides inadequate medical care that fails to meet the medical needs of inmates which, “may actually produce physical ‘torture or a lingering death. Three, the guidelines equate medical treatment with medical care and in so doing provide inadequate medical care. keywords: amendment; care; cpr; inmate; september; treatment cache: bioethics01-5906.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5906.txt item: #43 of 430 id: bioethics01-5907 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5907 date: 2020-05-19 words: 1764 flesch: 48 summary: Evidence indicates that traditional healing practices are a prominent source and propagator of the Ebola virus amongst rural African communities, however ethical issues arise in attempting to educate and reform the practices and rituals performed by traditional medicine healers. It provides the greatest benefit to teach traditional medicine healers, as they are interacting with the majority of rural communities, who may be at greatest risk of Ebola exposure and at the greatest disadvantage in accessing treatment. keywords: a98b-4beb-8cf3; applewebdata://d887889e; ebola; healers; health; medicine cache: bioethics01-5907.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5907.txt item: #44 of 430 id: bioethics01-5908 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5908 date: 2020-05-19 words: 1769 flesch: 51 summary: uniQure tried and failed to uphold its fiduciary responsibility to its investors and in the process hurt both its own revenue as well as LPLD patients. This was going to be the end of what was then the world’s most expensive drug, until a group of biohackers based across the United States and Europe announced that they would reverse engineer the drug and release it to any patient who needed it for free. keywords: biohackers; drug; fda; glybera; uniqure cache: bioethics01-5908.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5908.txt item: #45 of 430 id: bioethics01-5909 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5909 date: 2020-05-19 words: 2170 flesch: 56 summary: BEGUŠ, THE IDENTITY PROBLEM IN PRENATAL TESTING, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. “The Identity Problem” in Prenatal Testing Nina Beguš Keywords: Gattaca, Prenatal testing, bioethics, enhancement, PGD, reproductive technology INTRODUCTION GENETICIST keywords: child; identity; new; pgd; problem; testing cache: bioethics01-5909.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5909.txt item: #46 of 430 id: bioethics01-5910 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5910 date: 2020-05-19 words: 3839 flesch: 39 summary: The coercion argument against public water fluoridation is further supported by the availability and near universal, non-coercive use of fluoridated toothpaste. Revisiting the Ethical framework governing Water Fluoridation and Food Fortification Ahmad Shakeri, Christopher Adanty, Howsikan Kugathasan* Keywords: food fortification, water fluoridation, consent, dietary intake, statins ABSTRACT Food fortification and water fluoridation are two public health initiatives that involve the passive consumption of nutrients through food and water supplies. keywords: bioethics; fluoridation; fluoride; food; fortification; health; interventions; public; water; water fluoridation cache: bioethics01-5910.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5910.txt item: #47 of 430 id: bioethics01-5916 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5916 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2452 flesch: 39 summary: Drug use alone and drug use in conjunction with petty crimes should not involve prison time because there are minimal associated public safety concerns. Legitimate goals of penal sanctions include retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.1 Most of these goals do not speak to those with substance use disorder, and incarceration may be counterproductive given the wide availability of drugs and feeble rehabilitation efforts in prison. keywords: disorder; drug; prison; substance; use cache: bioethics01-5916.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5916.txt item: #48 of 430 id: bioethics01-5917 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5917 date: 2020-05-21 words: 3014 flesch: 31 summary: The third consideration involves protection of research data, both “de-identified” and personally identifiable, from unauthorized access. Here, we present an alternative point of view to these arguments made in support of the use of de- identified medical data in the form of health registries for research purposes without informed consent.3 Though the argument Ludvigsson et al. puts forth specifically focuses on national health registries in Nordic countries, regulations in the US also permit the use of de-identified health information in research without informed consent. keywords: consent; data; individual; research cache: bioethics01-5917.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5917.txt item: #49 of 430 id: bioethics01-5918 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5918 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1116 flesch: 79 summary: I first noticed it when I got on in Allston, where, next to me, with me, pushing into the trolley, others held up their wallets and flashed their Charlie Cards and I did the same knowing full You get on in Allston, riding through the gentrified grit of performative punk and you feel empowered by a diversity which feels comfortable to a white southern boy like you, because it’s diversity in moderation. keywords: allston; bioethics; line cache: bioethics01-5918.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5918.txt item: #50 of 430 id: bioethics01-5919 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5919 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1592 flesch: 44 summary: Today, most rare disease research uses federal research dollars in a variety of forms, and the FDA closely coordinates with pharmaceutical companies through its Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD).1 In order to stimulate orphan drug research, the OOPD offers tax incentives, special patent and marketing rights protections, and clinical research subsidies to pharmaceutical companies willing to undertake orphan drug projects. Until further empirical research supports the efficacy of the current orphan drug research and development paradigm, claims that orphan drug research falls within the moral parameters of distributive justice will remain grossly unsupported. keywords: drug; industry; orphan; pharmaceutical; research cache: bioethics01-5919.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5919.txt item: #51 of 430 id: bioethics01-5920 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5920 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2257 flesch: 54 summary: The ‘medical brain drain’ refers to the mass movement of health care workers from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries, resulting in gross shortages of health care workers in LMICs.1 Strong notions of medical workers’ duty-to-stay in their home country and of equal rights to the life and health of citizens in source countries are important arguments in emphasizing the unethicality of the medical brain drain. The migration of medical workers is part of the current global-health workforce crisis characterized by the severe shortage of health care workers in countries suffering from high burdens of disease.5 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 4.3 million health care workers are needed to effectively combat HIV/AIDs and other diseases, reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.3, 6-7 The WHO’s estimate only accounts for shortages of health care workers in 57 countries experiencing “critical shortages,” and does not account for countries experiencing shortages in the capacity to provide basic health services (see Figure 1).5-6,8 36 of the 57 countries are in Africa, a continent experiencing 25% of the global burden of disease yet possessing far less of a capacity to provide care to its inhabitants (see Table 1).6 keywords: april; care; countries; drain; health; medical; workers cache: bioethics01-5920.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5920.txt item: #52 of 430 id: bioethics01-5922 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5922 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1804 flesch: 42 summary: Involuntary Hospitalization: A Personal Ethics Narrative Tara Wilkes Keywords: involuntary hospitalization, autonomy, mental health, bioethics, Personal Narrative Would you rather your loved ones be treated effectively or taken to the hospital against their will? Involuntary hospitalization, a legal process by which the mentally ill are forced into treatment at hospitals, is highly contested. keywords: declan; harm; hospitalization; individuals cache: bioethics01-5922.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5922.txt item: #53 of 430 id: bioethics01-5923 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5923 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2303 flesch: 40 summary: If Jesuit universities wish to achieve their ideals and combat systemic disadvantages women of color and low socioeconomic status face in both higher education and the job market, they must provide resources like birth control and birth control education so that these women can reap the value of their education and better control their futures. Women, who university contraception policy disproportionately affects, generally share positive attitudes about contraception. keywords: contraception; control; jesuit; universities; women cache: bioethics01-5923.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5923.txt item: #54 of 430 id: bioethics01-5937 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5937 date: 2020-06-17 words: 637 flesch: 45 summary: In one experiment, Dr. Hart, with the approval of an ethics committee, offers drug addicts two options: a dose of crack cocaine, or an “alternative reinforcer” such as monetary incentives or vouchers for merchandise. From this, Dr. Hart concludes that environmental factors influence addicts’ decisions to engage in drug use. ____________________________________________________________ GOLDBERG, HIGH PRICE, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: drug; hart cache: bioethics01-5937.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5937.txt item: #55 of 430 id: bioethics01-5938 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5938 date: 2020-06-17 words: 639 flesch: 50 summary: Fertility companies are profiting off of the anxiety of educated women. Firstly, the fertility industry has downplayed the risks associated with egg retrieval, the drugs that are used to hyperstimulate our ovaries, and the transvaginal aspiration needed to retrieve our eggs.123 Secondly, the statistical chance of freezing eggs, fertilizing them in the future, and then having a successful implantation remain relatively low.4 keywords: freezing; women cache: bioethics01-5938.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5938.txt item: #56 of 430 id: bioethics01-5939 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5939 date: 2020-06-17 words: 3117 flesch: 24 summary: Since 2014, the Obama administration has supported the expansion of family detention centers on the US border with Mexico as a deterrent for asylum seekers. One key study conducted by Zachary Steel elucidated psychiatric status of asylum seeker families in Australia’s remote facilities.[15] keywords: asylum; australia; bioethics; centers; detention; health; policy; public; rights; seekers cache: bioethics01-5939.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5939.txt item: #57 of 430 id: bioethics01-5940 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5940 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1785 flesch: 66 summary: On Starting Medical School Priya Misra Keywords: medical school, mindset, self-reflection INTRODUCTION When I first found out that I was accepted into medical school, I felt like I was on top of the world; I was overjoyed and extremely excited to pursue this rare and special opportunity. keywords: life; school cache: bioethics01-5940.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5940.txt item: #58 of 430 id: bioethics01-5941 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5941 date: 2020-06-17 words: 2219 flesch: 64 summary: As Vivian descends into more frequent episodes of extreme pain, she appears to be almost alien – no longer looks ‘alive’ or human but instead writhes in pain – kept in isolation and effectively forced by her physician, Dr. Kelekian, to continue doing the full dose of treatment. She does not remain unaffected by having to care for Vivian, allowing herself to enter in to Vivian’s life: first her life as a scholar ripped from her work and confined to treatment, and slowly into her suffering and pain, sharing moments with her, like their conversation over popsicles, or the moment of joy and laughter over ‘soporific.’ keywords: death; pain; suffering; vivian cache: bioethics01-5941.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5941.txt item: #59 of 430 id: bioethics01-5942 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5942 date: 2020-08-13 words: 2202 flesch: 62 summary: Women will be able to receive the highly expensive procedure from 50 clinics across the province. Yet the accounts of women who undergo IVF are painful to read. keywords: baby; fleming; ivf; longing; motherhood cache: bioethics01-5942.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5942.txt item: #60 of 430 id: bioethics01-5943 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5943 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1509 flesch: 66 summary: Adaptability: A Prerequisite for Medicine Priya Misra Keywords: adaptability, medical education, bioethics INTRODUCTION In medical school, classes are usually graded on an Honors, High Pass, Pass, or Low Pass scale. When I first began medical school I wanted to do the very best I could—I wanted to honor every class that was possible. keywords: school; study cache: bioethics01-5943.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5943.txt item: #61 of 430 id: bioethics01-5944 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5944 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1413 flesch: 60 summary: This argument, that all instances of assisted suicide are either irrational or unjustified, ignores the ability of human beings to make binding decisions regarding their future selves. This fact, as well as her outspoken activism in favor of assisted suicide for the terminally ill, makes it clear that she was not acting under duress or out of guilt when she took her own life. keywords: dignity; right; velleman cache: bioethics01-5944.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5944.txt item: #62 of 430 id: bioethics01-5947 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5947 date: 2020-08-13 words: 3630 flesch: 52 summary: But, if one concludes through the course of examining one’s life and the countless ways in which one’s life is sustained that conscientious food consumption is imperative, such a course may feel eminently more rewarding, serving as an evolving guide through life’s various ethical and health choices. “Ethical food, good food? keywords: animals; beef; factory; farming; fish; food; health; human; planet; public; weisberg cache: bioethics01-5947.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5947.txt item: #63 of 430 id: bioethics01-5955 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5955 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1644 flesch: 47 summary: Fast food companies reap a higher profit margin than those that sell whole, non-processed foods, which creates an economic incentive to market these to a significantly large KISKADDEN-BECHTEL, SKEWED DATA FOR PROFIT, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. These communities are no more susceptible to developing a fatty liver than higher income areas; the only difference is the extent of fructose foods consumed on a daily basis. keywords: companies; food; fructose; health; obesity cache: bioethics01-5955.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5955.txt item: #64 of 430 id: bioethics01-5957 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5957 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1151 flesch: 46 summary: Gestational surrogacy, in contrast, is a method by which the surrogate carries a pregnancy that has been made possible from the egg and sperm of the intended parents (and/or a donor egg and/or donor sperm). Another Side of Rental Violations Elie Laskin Keywords: financial ethics, surrogacy, contracts, reproductive ethics INTRODUCTION Movies, music, hotels, apartments, parking spots, and the list goes on. keywords: rental; surrogacy; surrogate cache: bioethics01-5957.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5957.txt item: #65 of 430 id: bioethics01-5958 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5958 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1988 flesch: 48 summary: “On human gene editing: international summit statement”. CRISPR-Cas9 Genomic Editing is an Ethical Frontier: Insert…Backspace…Delete… Fix Typo…Cure Disease Andrew Hawkins Keywords: genetic ethics, CRISPR, gene editing, genomic technology INTRODUCTION On February 1st, 2016, a team of scientists at the Francis Crick Institute received approval from the UK Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to use CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the genetic makeup of human embryos.1 This monumental “first” in biology opens a door that has been closed since the isolation of embryonic stem cells in 1998. keywords: cas9; crispr; editing; gene; genomic; health; human; obesity cache: bioethics01-5958.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5958.txt item: #66 of 430 id: bioethics01-5959 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5959 date: 2020-08-13 words: 2185 flesch: 65 summary: “When Good Doctors Go Bad: Paolo Macchiarini and Complications Julia Bolzon Keywords: medical education, medicine, clinical ethics, medical profession INTRODUCTION Celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini performed experimental transplant surgery on patients with missing or damaged windpipes using an artificial trachea made of a polymer scaffold and the patient’s own stem cells. Not only did Macchiarini manipulate the results reported about the procedure’s success, he also lied to his patients about the procedure’s safety, and knowingly performed it on patients whose conditions were not life- threatening. keywords: gawande; ibid; medicine; patient cache: bioethics01-5959.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5959.txt item: #67 of 430 id: bioethics01-5960 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5960 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1115 flesch: 42 summary: While BEINGS may be asking the right questions, and the IAB facilitating necessary global discussion, the challenges of biotechnology run much deeper than we are equipped to handle. • How do we assure fairness, justice, and global sharing of the fruits of modern biotechnology?7 CONCLUSION The trouble with such global gatherings (as noble and necessary as they may be) lies not so much within their aim but within the heart of biotechnology itself, which makes the task of regulation frankly impossible. keywords: bioethics; biotechnology; congress cache: bioethics01-5960.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5960.txt item: #68 of 430 id: bioethics01-5961 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5961 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1187 flesch: 37 summary: Recent developments in uterine transplantation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States have opened up the conversation about ectogenesis, also known as artificial wombs or extracorporeal gestation.1 Recent developments in uterine transplantation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States have opened up the conversation about ectogenesis, also known as artificial wombs or extracorporeal gestati... ANALYSIS CONCLUSION keywords: abortion; ectogenesis; women cache: bioethics01-5961.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5961.txt item: #69 of 430 id: bioethics01-5962 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5962 date: 2020-08-13 words: 1303 flesch: 45 summary: ANALYSIS Self-tracking pills will no doubt improve the ability of medical professionals to monitor patients and their prescription use, an effort that has failed in recent history. Furthermore, invasion of privacy may discourage patients from being compliant in their medical care and may encourage distrust between a patient and medical professional. keywords: patient; pill; spector; tracking cache: bioethics01-5962.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5962.txt item: #70 of 430 id: bioethics01-5965 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5965 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1229 flesch: 15 summary: An article on gender discrimination in academic medicine that was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed a disturbing conclusion: 30 percent of female physicians report having experienced sexual harassment.1 This also explains why many women pursue pediatric and geriatric subspecialties, disciplines that require a traditionally feminine caretaker role, rather than surgery where they may encounter prejudice in an “old boy’s club.”5 ____________________________________________________________ ANALYSIS The consequences of gender discrimination and, more broadly, the pervasive mistreatment of medical trainees due to gender, race, and age cannot be ignored. keywords: discrimination; gender; medical; medicine cache: bioethics01-5965.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5965.txt item: #71 of 430 id: bioethics01-5966 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5966 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1514 flesch: 38 summary: Signaling the Importance of Prescription Monitoring, Treatment Access, and Addiction Prevention Matt Dias* Keywords: fentanyl overdoses, pharmaceutical ethics, addiction prevention INTRODUCTION Since March, a growing number of regions in the United States and Canada have encountered an alarming increase in opioid drug overdoses. Investigations into the matter are occurring on both local and federal levels.4 While historically, fentanyl sales and overdoses have been concentrated in the Eastern United States (in places such as Ohio and Southern Florida), the primarily affected regions of the emerging epidemic range from the greater Chicago area to British Columbia in Western Canada and California’s Central Valley. keywords: deaths; fentanyl; health; news; overdoses cache: bioethics01-5966.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5966.txt item: #72 of 430 id: bioethics01-5968 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5968 date: 2020-06-22 words: 923 flesch: 61 summary: False Hope: When Waiting Your Turn Isn’t Fair Karin Sobeck* Keywords: transplant ethics, transplant coordinator, narrative medicine, bioethics INTRODUCTION Mr. X is a vibrant seventy-eight-year-old patient who would be exultant on a sunny day. Both Mr. X. and Mrs. G. were patients under my care until last July when I retired as a transplant coordinator, after forty-three years of nursing, twelve years as a kidney transplant coordinator, and fifteen years as a dialysis supervisor. keywords: patient; transplant cache: bioethics01-5968.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5968.txt item: #73 of 430 id: bioethics01-5970 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5970 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1659 flesch: 43 summary: This view maintains that medical guidelines should be shaped always on “fact, not on literature or aesthetics—one that distinguishes real science from science fiction. I think that one of the keys lies in understanding art’s pedagogic role—whether literature, poetry, film, or science fiction—as a form of allegory. keywords: art; bioethics; biotechnology; literature; science cache: bioethics01-5970.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5970.txt item: #74 of 430 id: bioethics01-5971 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5971 date: 2020-06-11 words: 1484 flesch: 11 summary: That is, given that HIV is a life-threatening disease and seems to propagate the adult population of Swaziland through these norms, is it ethical to advocate for, and subsequently apply, changes to these cultural practices for the purpose of both saving lives and preventing HIV transmission in the first place? Given Swaziland’s polygamous culture, HIV transmission is not limited to occurring solely between a mother and her child; polygamous men are also responsible for transmitting HIV. keywords: hiv; swaziland; transmission; trials cache: bioethics01-5971.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5971.txt item: #75 of 430 id: bioethics01-5977 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5977 date: 2020-06-11 words: 1688 flesch: 47 summary: Refugee populations expose countries to a host of communicable and non- communicable diseases, and it is therefore in the national best interest to address the health requirements of a large refugee population to prevent the spread of disease. Such a bold pronouncement is more palatable under the Canadian healthcare system, where all Canadians are guaranteed healthcare (as determined at the provincial level); making the extension of healthcare to a refugee population, while presenting questions of cost and burden, is therefore logistically less challenging.3 By affording Syrian refugees a basic level of healthcare, host countries are also safeguarding the health and security of their citizenry. keywords: crisis; healthcare; population; refugee cache: bioethics01-5977.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5977.txt item: #76 of 430 id: bioethics01-5978 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5978 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1651 flesch: 12 summary: Mycetoma and Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Medical, Scientific, and Moral Duty to Care Matt Dias* Keywords: Disease Incidence, Duty to Care, Mycetoma, Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS, WHO INTRODUCTION 4 World Health Organization, “Neglected Tropical Diseases—Summary,” 2016, http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/summary/en/. 5 World Health Organization, “Trade, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Health” and WHO Mission Statement, 2016, http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story096/en/. 6 keywords: care; dias; diseases; health; mycetoma cache: bioethics01-5978.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5978.txt item: #77 of 430 id: bioethics01-5979 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5979 date: 2020-06-22 words: 3319 flesch: 44 summary: Might one leave such films more unsettled than entertained, but moved to act? Fear, in contagion films, is as rampantly contagious as the infection in question. keywords: bioethics; contagion; corporation; fear; film; health; human; psychos; virus; weisburg; world cache: bioethics01-5979.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5979.txt item: #78 of 430 id: bioethics01-5980 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5980 date: 2020-06-22 words: 2056 flesch: 42 summary: Community preventive medicine efforts should ensure that patients have access to and properly manage their medications, have follow-up visits with education on how to manage current ailments, live in environments that reduce the chance for falls, and have access to primary care physicians when needed. EMS agencies can also play a major role in community preventive medicine efforts. keywords: care; ems; medicine; patients; rescue cache: bioethics01-5980.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5980.txt item: #79 of 430 id: bioethics01-5981 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5981 date: 2020-08-03 words: 3170 flesch: 49 summary: For better or worse, the idea and practice of cognitive enhancement has been accepted by parts of society and regulation will guarantee responsible use.3 More regulation can also be seen as overburdening the already busy healthcare ISGUVEN, AN ETHICAL ARGUMENT FOR REGULATED COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT IN ADULTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. The regulation of cognitive enhancement devices: extending the medical model. keywords: case; current; effects; enhancement; regulation; tdcs; use cache: bioethics01-5981.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5981.txt item: #80 of 430 id: bioethics01-5983 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5983 date: 2020-08-03 words: 5862 flesch: 75 summary: Michael explained that the Commission was working on ethical principles and needed people like me to inform them about each of the principles they wanted to know about. The oddity of it is there was basically nothing about ethical principles in that material. keywords: bioethics; commission; people; philosophy; principles; research cache: bioethics01-5983.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5983.txt item: #81 of 430 id: bioethics01-5984 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5984 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1673 flesch: 47 summary: The TLC show “I Am Jazz” documents the life of Jazz Jennings, a transgender teenage girl living in South Florida, who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the age of four—the youngest publically disclosed case of gender identity dysphoria (GID). In a society that often pathologizes those who do not conform to the gender on their birth certificate, gender dysphoric children are often subject to social stigma that poses a threat to their mental and physical well-being.16 keywords: children; dysphoria; gender; jazz; transgender cache: bioethics01-5984.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5984.txt item: #82 of 430 id: bioethics01-5985 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5985 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1702 flesch: 62 summary: Romania’s health system is currently perched on a dangerous precipice- it faces a major dual dilemma of a “brain drain” of Romanian physicians to other European countries, as well as negative health outcomes from the widespread practice of bribery in physicians and other healthcare practitioners. When a similar program was introduced in Albania in the early 2000s, some physicians even saw their incomes quadruple.11 Not only will this plan provide better equity of care to all citizens, but physicians will also receive higher wages and will hopefully retain Romanian physicians. keywords: boy; health; physicians; romania cache: bioethics01-5985.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5985.txt item: #83 of 430 id: bioethics01-5986 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5986 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1265 flesch: 40 summary: In November of 2015, the Palestinian Representative to the UN Dr. Riyad Mansour wrote an open letter to the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon claiming that, under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem, Palestinians killed and seized by Israeli soldiers were being returned with “missing corneas and other organs.”4 It also provided for government payments for a donor’s medical care and related monetary losses.7 Five-year wait times for kidneys or other organs obtained from someone declared brain dead exemplify the rationale behind why Israel goes to such great lengths in the global organ trade. keywords: israel; mansour; organ; palestine cache: bioethics01-5986.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5986.txt item: #84 of 430 id: bioethics01-5988 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5988 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1421 flesch: 58 summary: Jorge Luis Rivera-Agosto Keywords: bioethics, clinical trials, government, transparency INTRODUCTION The lack of publications[5] (researchers that don’t publish their findings for a variety of reasons such as that their data won’t be of benefit to the whole community) of clinical trials and biased literature[6],[7] (when researchers publish positive rather than negative findings) concerning clinical trials outcomes are major concerns. keywords: information; rule; subjects; trials cache: bioethics01-5988.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5988.txt item: #85 of 430 id: bioethics01-5989 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5989 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1568 flesch: 72 summary: She inquired, “What is it now?” “Medicare and Medicare Supplement,” I responded. I was like so many others who would be told the same thing from other medical doctors. keywords: abbate; doctor; medicare cache: bioethics01-5989.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5989.txt item: #86 of 430 id: bioethics01-5990 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5990 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1323 flesch: 53 summary: Until more research is done into the long-term effects of egg donation and laws are put in place to ensure the voluntary consent of donors, compensation for egg donations should be banned by law. Politicize My Bioethics: Compensation for egg cells Celina Malavé Keywords: bioethics, egg donation, politics, safety, reproduction INTRODUCTION keywords: donation; egg; women cache: bioethics01-5990.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5990.txt item: #87 of 430 id: bioethics01-5991 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5991 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1589 flesch: 42 summary: For example, in Germany, the Dunkelfeld Institute has pushed for patient protection and the facilitation of treatment options. This punishment tramples on the foundation of confidentiality and may further encourage individuals struggling with this disorder to refuse treatment options because of the lack of anonymity. keywords: individuals; pedophilia; society; treatment cache: bioethics01-5991.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5991.txt item: #88 of 430 id: bioethics01-5992 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5992 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1256 flesch: 35 summary: Enlisting Patients to Reduce Medical Errors Jennifer Cohen* Keywords: medical errors, reporting, ethics, patient experience INTRODUCTION Two recent reports on patient safety reinforce a compelling yet fairly obvious claim: doctors can reduce medical error by enlisting patients as participants in that process. keywords: disclosure; errors; healthcare; patients cache: bioethics01-5992.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5992.txt item: #89 of 430 id: bioethics01-5993 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5993 date: 2020-08-03 words: 4791 flesch: 69 summary: The new policy allows drug companies to pay a writer $10,000 an nually for editorial reviews. It’s almost as if we are incentivizing criminal behavior: the profit that drug companies receive far exceeds the penalty of the fine that they’ll have to pay, like y ou said. keywords: angell; companies; journal; medicine; new; system cache: bioethics01-5993.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5993.txt item: #90 of 430 id: bioethics01-5995 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-5995 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1450 flesch: 59 summary: Pursuing IVM production over traditional methods of meat production entails less human-animal contact. In this way, IVM production could help mitigate the spread of zoonoses to humans, and the sterile laboratory environment where IVM is produced should also help to mitigate food-borne illness.6 Moreover, the use of antibiotics in livestock has been identified as a potential source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the introduction of IVM might diminish the evolution of these strains of bacteria. keywords: ivm; meat; production; technology cache: bioethics01-5995.pdf plain text: bioethics01-5995.txt item: #91 of 430 id: bioethics01-6000 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6000 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1160 flesch: 49 summary: Chawla discussed five options for these embryos: (1) destroy them; (2) donate them to medical research; (3) donate them to an infertile woman; (4) keep them frozen; and (5) engage in compassionate transfer. Considering that IVF now accounts for 1.5% of all babies born in the US, it seems likely that the number is significantly greater.2 While there are several choices for what intended parents can do with these embryos, Chawla’s article mentions compassionate transfer. keywords: embryos; transfer cache: bioethics01-6000.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6000.txt item: #92 of 430 id: bioethics01-6001 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6001 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1427 flesch: 61 summary: [like Spindle Nuclear Transfer] would eliminate maternal transmission of mitochondrial disease… allowing a woman with a family history of mitochondrial diseases to ensure her children would not be affected. It’s a Boy: Ethical Implications of the First Spindle Nuclear Transfer Birth Elisabeth Armstrong* Keywords: bioethics, Leigh Syndrome, Spindle Nuclear Transfer, medical tourism INTRODUCTION On September 27, 2016 people across the world looked down at their buzzing phones to see the AP Alert: “Baby born with DNA from 3 people, first from new technique.” keywords: new; oct; syndrome; transfer cache: bioethics01-6001.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6001.txt item: #93 of 430 id: bioethics01-6002 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6002 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1213 flesch: 62 summary: Nowhere in the study is “Patient O” identified as “Patient Zero” -- i.e., the person who introduced the virus in America. “Finding Patient Zero.” keywords: aids; patient cache: bioethics01-6002.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6002.txt item: #94 of 430 id: bioethics01-6003 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6003 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1839 flesch: 38 summary: 8 Patrick Skerret, “Experts debate: Are we playing with fire when we edit human genes?”, STAT, November 15, 2017, https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/17/gene-editing-embryo-crispr/. https://www.nature.com/news/crispr-fixes-disease-gene-in-viable-human-embryos-1.22382 https://www.nature.com/news/crispr-fixes-disease-gene-in-viable-human-embryos-1.22382 https://doi.org/10.17226/24623 https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/17/gene-editing-embryo-crispr/ GUMER, THE DUBIOUS BENEFITS OF GERMLINE EDITING, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. 4 (2018) 4 9 H. Ma et al., “Correction of a Pathogenic Gene Mutation in Human Embryos”, Nature (2017), accessed June 20, 2018, doi:10.1038/nature23305. GUMER, THE DUBIOUS BENEFITS OF GERMLINE EDITING, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: crispr; editing; gene; germline; human; technology cache: bioethics01-6003.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6003.txt item: #95 of 430 id: bioethics01-6004 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6004 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1548 flesch: 34 summary: 4 Opponents to Proposition 106 cite the possible scenario in which an individual is given access to end of life medication, and prematurely ends their life when they might have been able to overcome their prognosis. Protracted suffering caused by impeding access to end of life medication is an instance where avoidable suffering perpetuates. keywords: colorado; life; patient; physician; suicide cache: bioethics01-6004.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6004.txt item: #96 of 430 id: bioethics01-6005 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6005 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1859 flesch: 50 summary: Representatives should seek to adopt policies that focus on fixing systematic problems that influence drug prices. We must continue the fight against skyrocketing drug prices”.2 Supporters often argue that drug companies attempt to hide price gouging practices by helping consumers with their co-payments or providing discounts to the uninsured while the aggregate costs rise. keywords: company; costs; drug; patent; price cache: bioethics01-6005.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6005.txt item: #97 of 430 id: bioethics01-6007 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6007 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1386 flesch: 60 summary: As technology progresses further, relying upon digital copies will likely come with less liability as advancements such as the “cloud” offer an alternative storage vessel. Viruses and hacking approaches, however, advance on par with technology and so the risk is likely not to be fully mitigated. keywords: contact; life; memories; technology cache: bioethics01-6007.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6007.txt item: #98 of 430 id: bioethics01-6008 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6008 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2814 flesch: 57 summary: The significant lack of data on how various drugs affect women leads to serious complications for patients to whom those drugs are prescribed. Objections to these solutions may be gender bias, arguments on the basis of sexual differences between men and women. keywords: drugs; gap; gender; health; research; sex; women cache: bioethics01-6008.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6008.txt item: #99 of 430 id: bioethics01-6009 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6009 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1702 flesch: 40 summary: An Assessment of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Alexa Woodward* Keywords: bioethics, Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy, gene editing, CRISPR, regulation INTRODUCTION Last year, a baby boy was born from an embryo that had undergone mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT). Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 4,000 children a year in the United States, diseases for which there are no cure; MRT is a promising method for preventing premature death. keywords: disease; mrt; nuclear; replacement; therapy; woodward cache: bioethics01-6009.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6009.txt item: #100 of 430 id: bioethics01-6010 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6010 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1727 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: gender, mortality, life expectancy, male, female, men, women ANALYSIS Men die before women in every culture across the globe, but understanding why that pattern persists has proven difficult. The example of Sweden is instructive: in 1800, life expectancy was 33 years for women and 31 years for men. keywords: health; life; lifespan; men; women cache: bioethics01-6010.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6010.txt item: #101 of 430 id: bioethics01-6011 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6011 date: 2020-05-26 words: 1559 flesch: 60 summary: Barack Obama Administration, Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, January 23, 2009. Global Health Policy: keywords: family; global; health; mexico; policy cache: bioethics01-6011.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6011.txt item: #102 of 430 id: bioethics01-6012 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6012 date: 2020-05-21 words: 3273 flesch: 42 summary: While some may argue discussions of sexual consent are too specific to be applied to issues of research consent, this is not the case. Furthermore, a study found that medical students who had completed a clerkship in obstetrics or gynecology did not believe consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia were warranted.8 These attitudes suggest that while issues surrounding sexual consent and research consent are distinct, there are important overlaps that point to a larger structural problem in society. keywords: autonomy; consent; feminist; justice; power; research; theory cache: bioethics01-6012.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6012.txt item: #103 of 430 id: bioethics01-6013 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6013 date: 2020-05-26 words: 3294 flesch: 45 summary: Contrary to most viewpoints from members of the President’s Council on Bioethics, McHugh believes there to be a distinct difference between the ethics of a zygote versus a clonote: a zygote (regardless of derivation from natural fertilization or IVF) being protected from harvesting embryoblasts from blastocysts for use in stem cell research and therapies, and a clonote being free for use in stem cell research or therapies. Therefore, practitioners and clinical ethicists should support a moratorium on further embryonic stem cell research until those within the community can agree on ethical limitations of new science. keywords: cells; embryonic; human; life; research; rights; stem cache: bioethics01-6013.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6013.txt item: #104 of 430 id: bioethics01-6014 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6014 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2116 flesch: 49 summary: Incentives are now so deeply embedded in recruiting research participants that it is difficult, and arguably unnecessary, to separate the two. Indeed, there needs to be a consensus with IRBs on strict guidelines for research incentives on homeless youth, or the research should not be conducted at all. keywords: guidelines; homeless; participants; research; youth cache: bioethics01-6014.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6014.txt item: #105 of 430 id: bioethics01-6015 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6015 date: 2020-05-21 words: 3636 flesch: 39 summary: We continue to see infringement of autonomy and lack of respect for persons in the form of institutional racism in health care institutions today. HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND INSTITUTIONS EMBRACING CULTURAL SAFETY In many parts of the world with a colonial history, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada, health care institutions are beginning to take steps to improve cultural safety.23 keywords: aboriginal; canada; canadians; care; health; institutions; makayla; patients; safety; trauma cache: bioethics01-6015.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6015.txt item: #106 of 430 id: bioethics01-6016 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6016 date: 2020-05-26 words: 5652 flesch: 80 summary: Part of my job is to make new scholars and new people for the field,it isn’t just to throw my name onto their papers or steal their research, which does go on and I don’t like it. Rachel: I was just going to comment, I think a lot of people are thinking about bioethical issues without necessarily knowing the name to attach to it. keywords: attention; bioethics; caplan; issues; lot; people; public; sort; time cache: bioethics01-6016.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6016.txt item: #107 of 430 id: bioethics01-6017 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6017 date: 2020-05-21 words: 4870 flesch: 73 summary: How do you see space exploration and the ethical issues around that fitting into how a culture understands itself? Things that came out of space exploration. keywords: astronauts; bioethics; exploration; nasa; research; space cache: bioethics01-6017.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6017.txt item: #108 of 430 id: bioethics01-6018 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6018 date: 2020-05-26 words: 1443 flesch: 40 summary: Multiple studies, as well as a recent meta-analysis published in the BMJ, have found that genetic information does little, if anything to alter health related behavior.7 This has been similarly shown with regards to other medical information such as cholesterol levels or lung damage from smoking, but the supposed “exceptionalism” of genetic information seems to carry little weight in this realm. keywords: health; medicine; pmi; precision; responsibility cache: bioethics01-6018.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6018.txt item: #109 of 430 id: bioethics01-6019 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6019 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1536 flesch: 42 summary: Houston Department of Health and Human Services, City of Houston. During the period before the hurricane struck, Harris County and Houston officials refused to order an evacuation, arguing that residents should stay put, even as CNN meteorologists forecasted more than 20 inches of rain for the first weekend, and the National Weather Service placed Houston under a Flash Flood Watch on the Thursday before the storm struck [1]. keywords: harvey; health; houston; hurricane; january cache: bioethics01-6019.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6019.txt item: #110 of 430 id: bioethics01-6020 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6020 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1594 flesch: 60 summary: Designer Death Carolyn E. Stevens Keywords: quality of life, physician-assisted suicide, mortality INTRODUCTION From gene editing to stem cell therapy, the advancement of medical science seems almost to bring myth to life. keywords: april; death; life; quality cache: bioethics01-6020.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6020.txt item: #111 of 430 id: bioethics01-6022 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6022 date: 2020-05-21 words: 3683 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: medical aid in dying act, New York, end of life, legislature, physician-assisted suicide INTRODUCTION Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151) was recently filed with the New York State legislature 4. First, medical aid in dying appears to be phenomenologically different than stereotypical cases of suicide: patients who chose medical aid in dying do so in order to avoid the prospect of severe physical and psychological suffering that may come with terminal diagnoses and disease progression. keywords: aid; bill; dying; patient; physician; suicide cache: bioethics01-6022.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6022.txt item: #112 of 430 id: bioethics01-6023 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6023 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1662 flesch: 47 summary: To overcome these problems deferred proxy consent, or retrospective proxy consent, has been implemented as an alternative for informed proxy consent. Based on principle 28, these same bioethicists argue that retrospective proxy consent is unethical because informed proxy consent should be obtained before enrollment in clinical trials. keywords: consent; patient; proxy cache: bioethics01-6023.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6023.txt item: #113 of 430 id: bioethics01-6024 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6024 date: 2020-05-21 words: 1177 flesch: 31 summary: 3 National Cancer Institute, CAR T Cells: Engineering Patient’s Immune Cells to Treat Their Cancers, (Aug. 31, 2017), https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t-cells. Yescarta showed similar promise in clinical trials by sending 51% of the 100 adult subjects with B-cell lymphoma into complete remission.2 Because these treatments must only be administered once, many see these drugs not as cancer treatments, but as cancer cures—a paradigmatic shift in the fight against cancer. keywords: cancer; car; gene; treatments cache: bioethics01-6024.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6024.txt item: #114 of 430 id: bioethics01-6025 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6025 date: 2020-05-27 words: 1080 flesch: 53 summary: A Transgender Child's Right to Transition Sharon Feldman and Tom Dreyfus Keywords: consent, transgender ethics, children, transgender healthcare A landmark decision delivered by the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia on November 30th, 2017 confirmed that a transgender child who is capable of giving informed consent can undertake gender affirming hormone treatment without applying to a court for authorization.1 Kelvin, the child at the heart of the case, was assigned female at birth in 2000. Kelvin’s doctors recommended hormone treatment. keywords: court; gender cache: bioethics01-6025.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6025.txt item: #115 of 430 id: bioethics01-6026 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6026 date: 2020-05-28 words: 7841 flesch: 66 summary: His research currently focuses on two major areas: biomedical ethics, with particular attention to theory and method, religion and bioethics, and public bioethics, and just-war theory and pacifism. There are some publications that I really like, including, among others, that very first little article, Principles of Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, several editions, 1979, 1983, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2009, 2013), and an article on just-war theories (Theological Studies 39, 1979) as well as articles on conscience, organ procurement and allocation, public health ethics, etcetera. keywords: bioethics; childress; ethics; field; interview; issues; james; lot; policy; principles; university cache: bioethics01-6026.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6026.txt item: #116 of 430 id: bioethics01-6027 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6027 date: 2020-05-27 words: 1685 flesch: 46 summary: The overselling of stem cell treatments before they have been sufficiently validated and tested for safety has been attributed to the sensationalized attention given to stem cell research in popular media. The unregulated commercialization of stem cell treatments: a global perspective. keywords: cell; clinics; health; patients; stem; tourism cache: bioethics01-6027.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6027.txt item: #117 of 430 id: bioethics01-6028 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6028 date: 2020-05-27 words: 1822 flesch: 49 summary: For cancer patients, infections can escalate quickly and affect the efficacy of the individual’s treatment.1 Lastly, the stage of the illness and the required treatment are of considerable importance. As is the case with most ethical quandaries, it is most appropriate to meet with patients and their families to have an honest, open discussion about the patient’s fears, wishes, and goals. keywords: fertility; patient; preservation cache: bioethics01-6028.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6028.txt item: #118 of 430 id: bioethics01-6029 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6029 date: 2020-05-27 words: 1853 flesch: 56 summary: In South Asian society individuals act in a way that fulfills their social responsibility.14 Everyone has a purpose within their family, their society, even within this universe. On the other hand, in South Asian society completing the education necessary for becoming a medical professional implies that an individual has forgone ignorance and self. keywords: asia; doctors; malpractice; south cache: bioethics01-6029.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6029.txt item: #119 of 430 id: bioethics01-6031 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6031 date: 2020-05-27 words: 2448 flesch: 44 summary: With the aforementioned expansion of possible children, it seems unlikely that Procreative Beneficence would substantially alter societal equity, provided access is readily available to all strata of society. The United States must act however, to mitigate risk and allow for parents to make an informed risk- benefit assessment if they elect to utilize CRISPR technology. keywords: beneficence; child; crispr; principle; savulescu cache: bioethics01-6031.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6031.txt item: #120 of 430 id: bioethics01-6032 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6032 date: 2020-05-27 words: 1854 flesch: 51 summary: Furthermore, advocating for legal abortion solely in the case of fetal disability is ethically wrong and has historically eugenic undertones. Furthermore, advocating for legal abortion solely in the case of fetal disability is ethically wrong and has historically eugenic undertones. keywords: abortion; brazil; rights cache: bioethics01-6032.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6032.txt item: #121 of 430 id: bioethics01-6033 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6033 date: 2020-05-28 words: 1989 flesch: 36 summary: ”[ii] ANALYSIS Several aspects of Charlie Gard’s case show similarities with previous cases involving infants and what physician’s refer to as ‘futile care.’ However, Charlie’s case stands out from the others and presents an impasse so large that it breaks all common conceptions of such care, particularly those cases which involve an infant’s parents. keywords: care; cases; charlie; futility; parents; patient cache: bioethics01-6033.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6033.txt item: #122 of 430 id: bioethics01-6034 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6034 date: 2020-05-28 words: 3102 flesch: 57 summary: Politics of Pain: Investigating the Ethics of Palliative Care as a Global Human Right Alix Masters ABSTRACT Vietnam, a country with a culture strongly imbued with Eastern Buddhist values, has a long history of rejecting palliative care and pain medications in general. Due to this, the World Health Organization’ declaration that palliative care is a universal human right could also be understood as a Western organization blatantly ignoring Buddhist cultural traditions. keywords: care; human; july; medical; pain; right; web cache: bioethics01-6034.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6034.txt item: #123 of 430 id: bioethics01-6035 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6035 date: 2020-05-26 words: 1006 flesch: 37 summary: Although life expectancy gaps between African Americans and whites are narrowing, African Americans die at higher rates than whites from most causes, including AIDS, heart disease, and cancer.5 Can these health disparities be linked, in part, to a feeling of distrust African Americans have toward medicine based on historical abuses? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that from 2010 to 2014 African Americans made up 45% of the total number of Americans diagnosed with HIV with a death rate higher than any other group.3 African Americans have higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases and account for 36% of Tuberculosis cases.4 keywords: african; americans; distrust cache: bioethics01-6035.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6035.txt item: #124 of 430 id: bioethics01-6036 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6036 date: 2020-05-26 words: 2022 flesch: 23 summary: The story raises a slew of bioethical issues which are beyond the scope of this essay; however, the story sheds light on a topic worthy of discussion: living organ donation among minors. BACKGROUND & ANALYSIS As the supply of organs suitable for transplantation decreases and the demand for them increases, the question of living organ donation among those yet of age has become a question of greater concern, primarily among those who point to the various ethical implications which such a procedure creates. keywords: donation; living; minors; organ; sister cache: bioethics01-6036.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6036.txt item: #125 of 430 id: bioethics01-6080 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6080 date: 2020-06-17 words: 1824 flesch: 55 summary: Contraception is important not just because it is someone’s right; increased access to contraception promotes women’s health. Defining the argument for open access to contraception as one grounded in rights weakens and limits the argument. keywords: contraception; court; right; women cache: bioethics01-6080.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6080.txt item: #126 of 430 id: bioethics01-6081 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6081 date: 2020-05-16 words: 2131 flesch: 45 summary: The question then arises: should we consider mandating compulsory vaccinations for SARS-CoV-2? 6 (2020) 2 ANALYSIS The prospect of compulsory vaccinations has an arduous history in the United States dating back to the 1905 court case Jacobson v. Massachusetts when, in the face of the smallpox epidemic, Henning Jacobson refused vaccination, arguing that the law requiring all adults vaccinate or pay a fine was an infringement on his autonomy and “an assault on his person”6 (he was fined five dollars after the Court ruled that no person was ever forced into compliance).7 keywords: bove; disease; sars; states; vaccination; vaccine cache: bioethics01-6081.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6081.txt item: #127 of 430 id: bioethics01-6082 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6082 date: 2020-05-15 words: 1421 flesch: 42 summary: While a maximizing principle may be ethically imperative in such circumstances, relying exclusively on consequentialist reasoning may produce unforeseen harms and moral failure if left unchecked by other ethical frameworks that maintain the dignity of human life, the equitable distribution of resources, and the autonomy of each patient.1 Although utilitarianism is a useful ethical principle to employ when scarce life-sustaining resources must be responsibly allocated, it must be buttressed by the principles of deontology and autonomy to ensure proportionate, equitable decision making. ____________________________________________________________ DALE, UTILITARIANISM IN CRISIS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. Moral good in the utilitarian framework is entirely contingent on whether the outcome of an action was maximally beneficial.3 To quantitatively conduct a utilitarian calculus, human lives must be considered homogenous and interchangeable, which contravenes Kant’s “categorical imperative.” keywords: autonomy; dale; decision; utilitarianism cache: bioethics01-6082.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6082.txt item: #128 of 430 id: bioethics01-6083 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6083 date: 2020-05-18 words: 1966 flesch: 49 summary: Keywords: effective altruism, philanthropy, bioethics INTRODUCTION Effective altruism (EA) is a movement focused on doing the most good one can do. Effective altruism doesn’t try to understand how power works, except to better align itself with it. keywords: change; movement; people cache: bioethics01-6083.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6083.txt item: #129 of 430 id: bioethics01-6084 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6084 date: 2020-05-15 words: 1326 flesch: 34 summary: Achieving equity and agreement: The importance of inclusion of marginalized groups in hospital policy initiatives Pageen Manolis Small* ABSTRACT As a nurse and an ethicist who has been involved in many discussions within both my community and its local healthcare institutions, I recognize a distinct need for input from diverse healthcare workers and community members. The goal, creation of a diverse decision-making group, can be met by engaging diverse interprofessional staff, the institution’s diversity department, the institution’s patient advisory group, local social justice groups, and other community leaders to identify appropriate representatives of marginalized groups. keywords: community; groups; healthcare; members cache: bioethics01-6084.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6084.txt item: #130 of 430 id: bioethics01-6085 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6085 date: 2020-05-18 words: 1818 flesch: 27 summary: Rethinking Figurative Language in the Rhetoric of Healthcare Allocation Brian Li and Marta Napiorkowska, PhD ABSTRACT Despite its illuminative properties, figurative language can distort our views, bringing more emotion and prejudgment than fact. The excessive use of figurative language in the rhetoric of allocation may be inappropriate; instead, physicians should use patient-focused and factual language that can account for the unique moral quandaries posed by each scenario they encounter. keywords: allocation; language; patient; physicians; use cache: bioethics01-6085.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6085.txt item: #131 of 430 id: bioethics01-6132 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6132 date: 2020-05-20 words: 1388 flesch: 42 summary: In Amsterdam, donut economics will be used to help the economy recover.11 Donut economics originated from Kate Raworth of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute’s book, ‘Donut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist.’ These principles may be the pillars for post-COVID-19 environmental policies. keywords: april; covid-19; environmental; people; world cache: bioethics01-6132.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6132.txt item: #132 of 430 id: bioethics01-6135 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6135 date: 2020-05-21 words: 2868 flesch: 44 summary: Thus, advocates believe embryonic stem cell research may aid in developing new, more efficient treatments for severe diseases and ease the pain and suffering of numerous people. However, those that are against embryonic stem cell research believe that the possibility of scientific benefits of research do not outweigh the immoral action of tampering with the natural progression of a fetal development and interfering with the human embryo’s right to live. keywords: cell; embryonic; embryos; human; research; stem cache: bioethics01-6135.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6135.txt item: #133 of 430 id: bioethics01-6165 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6165 date: 2020-05-24 words: 1698 flesch: 38 summary: Hindsight is 20/20: Lessons from the COVID–19 Pandemic and the Need for Stronger, Ethical Disease Surveillance James Ninia* Keywords: disease surveillance, global ethics, bioethics, World Health Organization INTRODUCTION Amid the COVID–19 pandemic, it is disturbing to read that, in 2016, a United Nations report assessed the ability of the international community to respond to communicable diseases as “woefully insufficient.”1 Reporting can be compromised by both the mixed quality of disease surveillance mechanisms within the country of origin, as was the case during the West African Ebola crisis, or a government’s decision to treat information about new disease outbreaks to be a “state secret,” as some have alleged was the case with China’s initial handling of COVID–19 compromise reporting.6 To help overcome the deficiencies of current disease surveillance mechanisms, the UN panel recommended that countries set up a “One Health” surveillance system, meaning integrating veterinary health data into disease surveillance programs.7 This makes sense given that the COVID–19 pandemic is generally believed to have originated from animal hosts.8 keywords: disease; global; health; report; surveillance cache: bioethics01-6165.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6165.txt item: #134 of 430 id: bioethics01-6198 author: Camille Castelyn title: bioethics01-6198 date: 2020-05-29 words: 2325 flesch: 46 summary: Furthermore, non-COVID-19 patients have avoided EDs due to fear of contracting COVID-19.14 Up until now, most people would argue that this is a necessary sacrifice to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. However, increased deaths of non-COVID-19 patients have brought a re-evaluation of the current status quo. keywords: 2020; africa; allocation; april; covid-19; medical; pandemic; south cache: bioethics01-6198.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6198.txt item: #135 of 430 id: bioethics01-6210 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6210 date: 2020-05-30 words: 1349 flesch: 35 summary: Michael Menconi* Keywords: COVID-19, ventilator allocation, scarcity, bioethics, racial disparity INTRODUCTION In response to concerns of potential bias in ventilator allocation, hospitals have touted the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scale as the gold standard of clinical objectivity. keywords: african; allocation; americans; health; ventilator cache: bioethics01-6210.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6210.txt item: #136 of 430 id: bioethics01-6297 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6297 date: 2020-06-02 words: 1387 flesch: 50 summary: The False Choice between Public Health and Civil Liberties Ava Kamb* Keywords: public health, civil liberties, protests, stay-at-home orders, bioethics INTRODUCTION Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of government in public health has come to the forefront of a national conversation. This paper argues that public health mandates that are kept to the least restrictive means necessary can work with certain civil liberties to ensure public health: the two should not be seen as mutually exclusive. keywords: bioethics; health; kamb; liberties; public cache: bioethics01-6297.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6297.txt item: #137 of 430 id: bioethics01-6304 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6304 date: 2020-06-26 words: 903 flesch: 64 summary: A romance between new Karen and old Jake also poses interesting questions: does age difference mean as much when your body looks 30 and yet may be immortal? At the center of the story is Jake, a 44-year-old man with an incurable condition that may result in death at any time. keywords: mindscan; original cache: bioethics01-6304.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6304.txt item: #138 of 430 id: bioethics01-6305 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6305 date: 2020-06-26 words: 376 flesch: 57 summary: Saunders instead imagines for us hapless human subjects undergoing trials of new compounds like Verbaluce—a pharmaceutical enhancer of lucidity and verbal expression. A little “Docilryde” will make human subjects obey every order—but frustratingly requires special authorization from senior management. keywords: holmquist cache: bioethics01-6305.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6305.txt item: #139 of 430 id: bioethics01-6306 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6306 date: 2020-06-26 words: 378 flesch: 25 summary: We don’t need to cast aside the deficit model in order to find an ethical reason to treat psychopaths as human beings. Ethical Obligations to Psychopaths Rachel keywords: psychopaths cache: bioethics01-6306.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6306.txt item: #140 of 430 id: bioethics01-6307 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6307 date: 2020-06-26 words: 427 flesch: 57 summary: Although Ankele has been creating art for some time now, she began to make abstract art because it presented an intuitive process to painting rather than creating artwork from a structured conceptual mindset. “Only Don’t Know” – Art Exhibition Obiora Anekwe Alix Ankele began her professional career as a psychiatric social worker in New York City. keywords: ankele cache: bioethics01-6307.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6307.txt item: #141 of 430 id: bioethics01-6308 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6308 date: 2020-07-27 words: 514 flesch: 42 summary: Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale Asnan Erfan Keywords: HIV, blood donation, emergency, 1960s The cautionary tale presents two bioethical issues: government’s awareness of contaminated blood donations and the pharmaceutical industry’s concern for prioritizing profit over safety. keywords: blood; hiv cache: bioethics01-6308.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6308.txt item: #142 of 430 id: bioethics01-6309 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6309 date: 2020-06-26 words: 267 flesch: 71 summary: HOLMQUIST, AIDS IN NEW YORK, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, 2013 © 2013 Stephanie Holmquist. You might guess it’s a group of gay men, something about the mustaches, the clothes, the shirtless man in the foreground. keywords: aids cache: bioethics01-6309.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6309.txt item: #143 of 430 id: bioethics01-6310 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6310 date: 2020-07-27 words: 538 flesch: 60 summary: Is it ethically justifiable to eradicate an entire herd of research animals without investigation just because one of them has become potentially dangerous? The scientific fiction movie, while showing the potential acting talent of apes, touches on ethical issues in the biopharmaceutical industry. keywords: apes; research cache: bioethics01-6310.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6310.txt item: #144 of 430 id: bioethics01-6312 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6312 date: 2020-06-26 words: 428 flesch: 52 summary: Gondek, whose work focuses on ethics and corruption, has offered this unique model by which to assess food production as an ethical and – I add – a bioethical issue. This is the innovative perspective on food ethics offered by Columbia University’s School for International Public Affairs professor, Dr. Adela J. Gondek. keywords: food cache: bioethics01-6312.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6312.txt item: #145 of 430 id: bioethics01-6313 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6313 date: 2020-06-26 words: 425 flesch: 50 summary: Aside from each episode centering around a killer and their capture, the series itself focuses on the relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham (played by Hugh Dancy) and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (played by Mads Mikkelsen.) Enter Dr. Hannibal Lecter. keywords: hannibal cache: bioethics01-6313.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6313.txt item: #146 of 430 id: bioethics01-6314 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6314 date: 2020-06-26 words: 490 flesch: 43 summary: The Studio is a 37-year old nonprofit organization providing arts-in-education services to New York City public schools. Celebrating the Very Special Arts of New York City Public School Students Obiora Anekwe The Very Special Arts (VSA), New York City public schools in District 75 and Marquis Studios celebrated the Mural and Calendar Project by presenting an exhibition of twenty-one murals by District 75 keywords: new; york cache: bioethics01-6314.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6314.txt item: #147 of 430 id: bioethics01-6315 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6315 date: 2020-06-26 words: 694 flesch: 63 summary: While the show is not particularly focused on the public policy issues that surround prisons, the major plotline in one episode follows the inmates attempt to capture a chicken, believed to carry drugs, in the prison yard; issues such as the smuggling of contraband and the ethics (or lack thereof) of prison staff often come up. By definition, prison requires the loss of liberty, and unlike in a doctor-patient context, inmates realize that seeking the help of corrections officers will elicit further retribution by fellow inmates. keywords: inmates; prison cache: bioethics01-6315.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6315.txt item: #148 of 430 id: bioethics01-6316 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6316 date: 2020-07-03 words: 554 flesch: 53 summary: For those that have limited experiences interacting with people who are living with disabilities, answering quality of life questions may be negatively impacted by a lack of understanding. ReelAbilities: Heart-Opening Insights, Mind-Boggling Questions Jhia Jackson Film, quality of life, disability, differently abled Quality of life is a standard phrase that can often be tossed into medical and bioethical discussions. keywords: life; quality cache: bioethics01-6316.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6316.txt item: #149 of 430 id: bioethics01-6317 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6317 date: 2020-07-03 words: 652 flesch: 49 summary: I encourage you to take time out and see this transformative exhibition of the murals and smaller works by artist Hale A. Woodruff. Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals from Talladega College Travel the Country Obiora Anekwe Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900-1980) was a master of many arts, including printmaking, draftsmanship, and painting. keywords: murals; woodruff cache: bioethics01-6317.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6317.txt item: #150 of 430 id: bioethics01-6319 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6319 date: 2020-06-26 words: 722 flesch: 60 summary: He cannot receive the treatment he deserves in a community hospital because he does not have health care insurance. Opposition to the Act by those who seldom have read it in its entirety and oftentimes possess comprehensive health care insurance themselves simply brings to light subversive and undermining discriminatory practices against the poor and most vulnerable. keywords: care; perry cache: bioethics01-6319.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6319.txt item: #151 of 430 id: bioethics01-6320 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6320 date: 2020-07-03 words: 767 flesch: 56 summary: In various other pieces, I also included photographs I took from the burial headstone sites of Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims at the Shiloh Cemetery in Notasulga, Alabama. I have had a lifelong curiosity about the ethics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and a desire to bring healing to communities such as Tuskegee. keywords: study; tuskegee cache: bioethics01-6320.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6320.txt item: #152 of 430 id: bioethics01-6321 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6321 date: 2020-06-26 words: 502 flesch: 53 summary: Founded in 1948, the Association operates a comprehensive Treatment and Rehabilitation Center that has earned international recognition for innovative and high quality programs. Most impressive is the fact that, although many students at the Children’s Learning Center may have cognitive and/or physical needs, communication devices such as computers, toys, and machines are augmented to enhance effective and transferable learning. keywords: children; learning cache: bioethics01-6321.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6321.txt item: #153 of 430 id: bioethics01-6322 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6322 date: 2020-08-24 words: 855 flesch: 47 summary: Oftentimes, contemporary society and the mass media feed into these false notions of black male identity through nonsensical and stereotypical portrayals of black men in popular music and television. Tyler Perry’s ingenious tackling of black male identity crafted in Jeffrey’s storyline further shows that black men are complex and multilayered, full of contradictions like any other race of men. keywords: aids; hiv cache: bioethics01-6322.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6322.txt item: #154 of 430 id: bioethics01-6323 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6323 date: 2020-08-24 words: 723 flesch: 30 summary: The painting marks a moment when acupuncture and other components of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) were embraced by many Western patients and some physicians. Despite its name, traditional Chinese medicine is not traditional. keywords: acupuncture; medicine cache: bioethics01-6323.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6323.txt item: #155 of 430 id: bioethics01-6324 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6324 date: 2020-07-03 words: 888 flesch: 54 summary: Willowbrook State School was once a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities located in the Willowbrook neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City from 1947 until 1987. The right hand boarded window in the collage shows how young children were systematically impacted by unethical medical studies at Willowbrook, I left the middle area of this right sided boarded window empty in order to symbolize the voided space of unheard voices of victims affected by Willowbrook. keywords: voices; willowbrook cache: bioethics01-6324.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6324.txt item: #156 of 430 id: bioethics01-6325 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6325 date: 2020-06-26 words: 1194 flesch: 28 summary: Japanese social life is marked by complex interactions designed to smooth social relationships, including care, to avoid causing negative feelings or offense. As a product of the Japanese social world, this book is filled with culturally appropriate affect: “The hardest ordeal for us is that we are causing grief for other people. keywords: autism; book; higashida cache: bioethics01-6325.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6325.txt item: #157 of 430 id: bioethics01-6326 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6326 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1591 flesch: 46 summary: , Ben Stiller spoke publicly for the first time about his successful battle with prostate cancer, and how, if it were up to the American Cancer Society (ACS), perhaps he wouldn’t have won. Celebrity Medicine: Ben Stiller’s Prostate Edition Kaitlynd Hiller Keywords: prostate cancer, screening, preventative, patient decision-making process INTRODUCTION During an interview in early October keywords: cancer; prostate; screening; stiller cache: bioethics01-6326.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6326.txt item: #158 of 430 id: bioethics01-6334 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6334 date: 2020-06-10 words: 1589 flesch: 24 summary: Mental illnesses tend to get chalked up to ‘brain chemistry imbalances’ despite the fact that there is little evidence for this hypothesis. Specifically, patients struggling with a ‘physical disorder’ and a diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or other mental illnesses, generally have higher disease burdens; more additive function impairment; incur higher medical costs; and demonstrate lower rates of self- care and adherence.[3] keywords: care; costs; health; healthcare; stress cache: bioethics01-6334.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6334.txt item: #159 of 430 id: bioethics01-6335 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6335 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1835 flesch: 69 summary: Transitioning from Who You Were to Who You Must Become: A Necessary Mental Switch Priya Misra Keywords: bioethics, medical school narrative, emergency medicine INTRODUCTION During my first year of Medical school, I applied to be on the Committee of Admissions, in which I would help interview new applicants for the School of Medicine. Applying to, and entering into medical school, is unlike anything else an individual will do in his or her life. keywords: life; school; students cache: bioethics01-6335.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6335.txt item: #160 of 430 id: bioethics01-6339 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6339 date: 2020-06-22 words: 1820 flesch: 73 summary: As I slowly survived my first year of medical school, I realized that medical professionals are just a small group in society—a small, specialized, extremely different group of people who practice medicine as their profession and their lifestyle. No one outside of my friends in class or in other medical schools could understand what I was going through. keywords: medicine; school cache: bioethics01-6339.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6339.txt item: #161 of 430 id: bioethics01-6345 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6345 date: 2020-06-11 words: 1965 flesch: -6 summary: The role of public health agencies is to facilitate approaches to health planning by supporting health promotion, prevention, and preparedness activities. Many of the voiced criticisms are indicative of a misunderstanding of the purpose of public health agencies. keywords: health; public; recommendations; virus; zika cache: bioethics01-6345.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6345.txt item: #162 of 430 id: bioethics01-6346 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6346 date: 2020-06-11 words: 3174 flesch: 3 summary: The toll of gun violence is unconscionable because it can be prevented, but there is very little that we can actually do about it because of a decades-long moratorium on federal funding for gun violence research. In December 2015, gun violence research became a heated topic of debate in congressional negotiations for this year’s federal budget and even raised the possibility of another “government shutdown. keywords: control; gun; guns; jones; new; public; research; safety; violence; year cache: bioethics01-6346.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6346.txt item: #163 of 430 id: bioethics01-6358 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6358 date: 2020-06-06 words: 1261 flesch: 29 summary: Engaging these groups is in everyone’s best interest as an effective response to a pandemic will require widespread cooperation throughout society with a range of government recommendations.3 Disadvantaged groups have the best understanding of their own interests and priorities making them crucial in pandemic response policy. Ultimately, COVID-19 has shown that the field of bioethics should become more engaged in reducing global health inequities and that we must emphasize the importance of investing globally in emergency preparedness that will include protections for vulnerable groups during emergencies such as pandemics. keywords: groups; health; pandemic; people cache: bioethics01-6358.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6358.txt item: #164 of 430 id: bioethics01-6377 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6377 date: 2020-06-07 words: 1786 flesch: 40 summary: Furthermore, the FDA requires manufacturers to develop and continuously update expanded access protocols that require time and additional resources to produce.7 Medium to smaller sized companies do not have the personnel nor the financial means to keep up with the requirements of the EAP, and this limits their ability to provide access to their investigational drugs.8 The RTT Act attempts to overcome these barriers to investigational drug access. The Right to Try Jacqueline Augenstein ABSTRACT Patients who request access to investigational drugs are terminally ill and consequently have an increased risk for serious adverse events. keywords: access; drugs; investigational cache: bioethics01-6377.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6377.txt item: #165 of 430 id: bioethics01-6380 author: Owner title: bioethics01-6380 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1082 flesch: 64 summary: According to the American Journal of Nephrology, living donors incur an average of five thousand dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. She has been lobbying Congress to amend the National Organ Transplant Act with more provisions and financial support for living donors. keywords: donors; living; organ; revere cache: bioethics01-6380.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6380.txt item: #166 of 430 id: bioethics01-6382 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6382 date: 2020-07-08 words: 818 flesch: 60 summary: Cassandra had previously been described in November as “very bright” by court documents, with a lucid understanding of her condition. While Cassandra is not considered mature enough to make a choice regarding her own medical decision in this case, she is able to make others due to Connecticut law. keywords: cassandra; treatment cache: bioethics01-6382.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6382.txt item: #167 of 430 id: bioethics01-6383 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6383 date: 2020-07-08 words: 949 flesch: 42 summary: The A.A.P. currently opposes the use of marijuana by children under the age of 21 yet “strongly supports the decriminalization of marijuana use.” Because statistically powerful scientific evidence will be hard to come by if C.B.D. remains a Schedule I drug, pediatricians who decide to prescribe compassionate use cannabinoids have an ethical duty–rooted in their commitment to evidence-based medicine, and a fiduciary duty to their patients–to publish the results of the compassionate use of C.B.D. as a case study in order to continue the evidence for or against C.B.D.r you. keywords: cannabinoids; marijuana; use cache: bioethics01-6383.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6383.txt item: #168 of 430 id: bioethics01-6384 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6384 date: 2020-07-08 words: 653 flesch: 57 summary: BELLISOMO, HEARING LOSS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. In the meantime, Weinstein advises, BELLISOMO, HEARING LOSS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: hearing; loss cache: bioethics01-6384.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6384.txt item: #169 of 430 id: bioethics01-6390 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6390 date: 2020-06-10 words: 4917 flesch: 67 summary: Three weeks later, on the appointed day, Lionel and Melanie, whose absences would make them above suspicion, took the train to New York for the night, while at 6 P.M. in New Haven Ramon began to take his pills. Richard Selzer, who had left an active surgeon’s life in 1985 to write full-time, was drawn into a prickly situation, as he relates it: “A man I know here at Yale, a poet, called up and asked if I would see these two gentlemen. keywords: death; doctor; life; lionel; mercy; new; patient; question; ramon; selzer cache: bioethics01-6390.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6390.txt item: #170 of 430 id: bioethics01-6391 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6391 date: 2020-06-10 words: 3216 flesch: 44 summary: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) – Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are unique in that certain desirable genes or protein sequences are deleted, inserted or reengineered from the same or different species into a new organism.1 keywords: biotechnology; debate; gmos; introduction; new; organisms; vol cache: bioethics01-6391.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6391.txt item: #171 of 430 id: bioethics01-6392 author: Rachel Hill title: bioethics01-6392 date: 2015-01-25 words: 3454 flesch: 51 summary: Being grandfathered in would be the only option available to abortion clinics that cannot afford the upgrade. Clinics that cannot afford upgrades to become an ambulatory surgical center are being grandfathered in, while abortion clinics are being forced to close down. keywords: abortion; physicians; privileges; texas; women cache: bioethics01-6392.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6392.txt item: #172 of 430 id: bioethics01-6406 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6406 date: 2020-06-13 words: 1452 flesch: 47 summary: Viral infections detected in sewage systems could be the key to monitoring and addressing potential global pandemics. Therefore, sewage systems in impoverished nations should be considered a health priority, not only for local health concerns, but global health concerns. keywords: monitoring; sewage; testing; waste cache: bioethics01-6406.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6406.txt item: #173 of 430 id: bioethics01-6430 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6430 date: 2020-06-16 words: 1083 flesch: 50 summary: A focus on mental health and on being one’s best quarantine self (daily yoga and meditation, being patient parents, and eating health foods) was trending on social media. The priority narrative should have accounted for a mitigating factor: health problems due to secondary health effects of public health policies. keywords: health; narrative; priority cache: bioethics01-6430.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6430.txt item: #174 of 430 id: bioethics01-6442 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6442 date: 2020-07-03 words: 712 flesch: 53 summary: The Common Rule allows for the waiver of informed consent for research that poses “minimal risk” to participants. The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also known as the Common Rule requires informed consent to involve an explanation of the research and any procedures that may be experimental, foreseeable risks, contact information for debriefing and possible injury, and a statement, which explicitly states that participation is voluntary. keywords: facebook; study cache: bioethics01-6442.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6442.txt item: #175 of 430 id: bioethics01-6455 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6455 date: 2020-06-24 words: 545 flesch: 70 summary: Poetry and personal narrative are my own feeble attempts at untangling the confusion and emotional burden that stems from my experiences on the floors. As medical students we have the privilege and the burden of witnessing human suffering, death, healing, and humanity on a daily basis. keywords: death; relief cache: bioethics01-6455.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6455.txt item: #176 of 430 id: bioethics01-6456 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6456 date: 2020-06-24 words: 911 flesch: 65 summary: The exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, which ran at the Modern Museum of Modern Art from October 12, 2014 till February 10, 2015, reflected Matisse’s renewed interest in form and color, but most http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5792a137ff7c5081cb88ace7/57d06fdd8748e3aacbe022cd/57d071228748e3aacbe045d0/1473278242030/?format=original http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5792a137ff7c5081cb88ace7/57d06fdd8748e3aacbe022cd/57d071228748e3aacbe045d0/1473278242030/?format=original ANEKWE, EMANUEL AND MATISSE, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. However, after learning about the life and art of Henri Matisse I found a different perspective on aging. keywords: life; matisse cache: bioethics01-6456.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6456.txt item: #177 of 430 id: bioethics01-6457 author: Daniel Mills title: Caryn_No Men Allowed.docx date: 2015-03-09 words: 1493 flesch: 65 summary: I was left wondering many questions: --What are the ethical obligations of a hospital, medical institution, clinic, or practice to provide and ensure access for patients, upon request, to physicians and other medical professionals with a certain gender or sex? Switching over to their medical language once again, they hurriedly discussed other patients in the brief moments they had before their day really started. keywords: men; patient; room cache: bioethics01-6457.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6457.txt item: #178 of 430 id: bioethics01-6458 author: Sebastian title: Weisberg 12-14 Voices - Towering.doc.docx date: 2015-02-05 words: 1023 flesch: 45 summary: But absent such a time leap, does The Towering Inferno demonize at all and what does it say about human fear and anxiety? The unintended consequence of antibiotic resistance suggests human overreach in combating a well-concealed foe. keywords: fear; fire; human; university cache: bioethics01-6458.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6458.txt item: #179 of 430 id: bioethics01-6459 author: Sebastian title: bioethics01-6459 date: 2015-01-25 words: 2019 flesch: 74 summary: Seniors weren’t preparing for end of life care. Many health care providers say the biggest challenge when patients don’t outline preferences is trying to guess for them, often picking between bad options. keywords: care; end; life; seniors cache: bioethics01-6459.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6459.txt item: #180 of 430 id: bioethics01-6460 author: Sebastian title: bioethics01-6460 date: 2015-01-25 words: 1514 flesch: 55 summary: Like many other medical schools, my institution emphasizes compassion. I awkwardly asked a few questions from the list of Kleinman questions that I was familiar with from my first two years of medical school. keywords: compassion; questions; university cache: bioethics01-6460.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6460.txt item: #181 of 430 id: bioethics01-6461 author: Linda's Laptop title: bioethics01-6461 date: 2015-01-12 words: 1640 flesch: 94 summary: Moreover, the ideas and information expressed in this publication have not been approved or authorized by Columbia University, and the University shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever resulting from any action arising in connection with its publication. The views expressed in the Voices in Bioethics online journal and on the Voices in Bioethics website in its entirety, are solely those of the contributing author(s) to the publication, and do not reflect the views of Columbia University, its Trustees, Affiliates, Administration, Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, the Editors of this site, and any other member of the Columbia University community. keywords: dad; daughter; father cache: bioethics01-6461.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6461.txt item: #182 of 430 id: bioethics01-6462 author: Carolyn Chapman title: bioethics01-6462 date: 2015-01-13 words: 1318 flesch: 78 summary: Winter 2015 Aunt Peggy Carolyn Riley Chapman Follow this and additional articles at: http://voicesinbioethics.org/ Legal Disclaimer: Peggy, her sister, had gone to the emergency room with shortness of breath and her local hospital had admitted her. keywords: doctors; peggy; university cache: bioethics01-6462.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6462.txt item: #183 of 430 id: bioethics01-6467 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6467 date: 2020-07-14 words: 5041 flesch: 23 summary: While these decisions were accepted internationally as bold and novel, patent holders challenged the legality of infringing upon such patents. The second part will analyze reasons why certain patents may be infringed especially in the context of South Africa, and I will then conclude with some ethical arguments for making essential medicines accessible within the framework of patent laws. keywords: africa; aids; case; health; hiv; laws; patent; protection; south; trips cache: bioethics01-6467.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6467.txt item: #184 of 430 id: bioethics01-6468 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6468 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2003 flesch: 28 summary: ] A quick internet search for images of child soldiers turns up thousands of pictures of hardened children with vacant stares holding machine guns; something alarming but not unexpected, in the thousands of photographs that appear, not a single child smiles. [iv] While blameworthiness and responsibility are major components of exploiting youth as child soldiers and accountability must be expected of those responsible, the immediate focus should not be only on blaming the responsible parties, but rather, that there should be a global aim of addressing the more pressing issues of prevention of violence, rehabilitation from the damage caused by severe indoctrination, and reintegration into a non-violent world. keywords: children; forces; nations; soldiers; united cache: bioethics01-6468.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6468.txt item: #185 of 430 id: bioethics01-6469 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6469 date: 2020-07-14 words: 3110 flesch: 54 summary: Colaianni, A. A Long Shadow: Nazi Doctors, moral vulnerability, and contemporary medical culture. But with different cultural backgrounds, societal expectations, and a whole gamut of other variables that a physician must tightrope in their daily life, physicians may differ in their comprehension of good. keywords: cold; data; doctors; nazi; oath; physician; research cache: bioethics01-6469.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6469.txt item: #186 of 430 id: bioethics01-6470 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6470 date: 2020-07-14 words: 5211 flesch: 53 summary: Herring (2004) also defines colorism as “discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same ‘racial’ group on the basis of skin color” (p. 21). 1 (2014) 7 One of the negative side effects of colonialism in India and the Americas was a divide and conquer social order based on such external attributes as skin color, hair texture, and facial structure (Khan, 2009). keywords: africa; anekwe; bioethics; colorism; light; order; people; race; skin; voices; vol; white cache: bioethics01-6470.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6470.txt item: #187 of 430 id: bioethics01-6471 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6471 date: 2020-07-14 words: 3699 flesch: 41 summary: In the first part of the paper I will provide background information regarding gestational surrogacy in India. Lastly, in the fourth part of the paper I will discuss the ethics of gestational surrogacy as they relate to the best interests of the child, and how the child’s interests may serve as a limiting step in going forward with gestational surrogacy. keywords: child; contract; india; right; surrogacy; surrogate cache: bioethics01-6471.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6471.txt item: #188 of 430 id: bioethics01-6472 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6472 date: 2020-07-14 words: 4294 flesch: 44 summary: Sebastian Agredo Keywords: presumed consent, bioethics Starting in December 2015, Wales will be the first nation in the United Kingdom to break away from convention and join the twenty-four European countries that have adopted presumed consent legislation to address the stagnant transplant rate and shortage of human organs. With Wales being the latest country to go down the road of presumed consent, the question will inevitably rise: Should the United States take a more critical look at its current system of explicit consent and “required referral” for organ donation? keywords: consent; donation; donors; family; organ; organ donation; rate; spain; states; united; united states cache: bioethics01-6472.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6472.txt item: #189 of 430 id: bioethics01-6473 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6473 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2424 flesch: 51 summary: The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recognizes that there is insufficient research to make evidence based recommendations regarding the disclosure of results unrelated to the primary goal of the genetic testing.4 Recently, the ACMG presented a list of genetic diseases that should be disclosed to the patient when encountered as an incidental finding4, but the ACMG has yet to present recommendations for disclosing previously unknown consanguinity. The court held that the “physician’s duty regarding genetic testing and diagnosis extends beyond the patient to the biological parents who foreseeably may be harmed by a breach of that duty.”12 keywords: consanguinity; courtney; eng; findings; genetic; larry; loh cache: bioethics01-6473.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6473.txt item: #190 of 430 id: bioethics01-6474 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6474 date: 2020-07-14 words: 3374 flesch: 35 summary: Prescription to Over-the-Counter Switch: A Case Study in Oral Contraceptives Marilyn Eshikena Keywords: prescription, oral contraceptives, reproductive ethics Introduction Nearly 55 years after the FDA approved the pill,[i] as it is commonly known, controversies continue to accompany its journey to become an integral part of reproductive choice. It appears that most of the countries with OTC oral contraceptives are less developed countries. keywords: contraceptives; counter; otc; pills; prescription; switch; women cache: bioethics01-6474.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6474.txt item: #191 of 430 id: bioethics01-6475 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6475 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2414 flesch: 69 summary: I will miss you, Bob. - Alanna Walker Dear Bob, I am so thoroughly pleased to have met you and to have known you. We are here for two related reasons: to remember one of our alumni, Bob, who very sadly died in February; and to celebrate his memory, passion and spirit. keywords: bioethics; bob; program; students; whiteman cache: bioethics01-6475.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6475.txt item: #192 of 430 id: bioethics01-6476 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6476 date: 2020-07-14 words: 5413 flesch: 46 summary: When Atlas shrugs: may the State wash its hands of those in need of life- sustaining medical treatment. It should be noted that while the TADA provides a mechanism by which futile medical treatment may be withdrawn, this is not mandatory but permissive and that palliative or comfort care should be continued.14 Positive Results and Strengths https://michael-reaves-bkln.squarespace.com/features/2014/04/09/for-everything-a-season#_ENREF_14 WHITEMAN, FOR EVERYTHING A SEASON, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: committee; ethics; futility; life; medical; patient; physician; process; tada; texas; treatment cache: bioethics01-6476.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6476.txt item: #193 of 430 id: bioethics01-6477 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6477 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2965 flesch: 43 summary: Thus, debate about whether to limit illegal immigrant healthcare services in the U.S. may serve as a model for future debate and policy in Europe. Regulations on Hospitals: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires hospitals that receive Medicaid funding to provide any patient with emergency medical care. A merit-based analysis would show that many illegal immigrants have the same right to healthcare services as many Americans. keywords: care; healthcare; hospitals; immigrants; patient cache: bioethics01-6477.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6477.txt item: #194 of 430 id: bioethics01-6478 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6478 date: 2020-07-14 words: 3585 flesch: 55 summary: Starting with the former and most prevalent example, school entry requirements across the country are influenced by vaccination public health policy. We follow essentially the same line of thinking today when crafting public health vaccination policy concerning vaccinations, but we now have a better understanding of the role of herd immunity in the protection of the general population, meaning the importance of vaccinations that the state of Massachusetts saw in Jacobson has increased exponentially. keywords: disease; health; jacobson; massachusetts; public; states; vaccination cache: bioethics01-6478.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6478.txt item: #195 of 430 id: bioethics01-6480 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6480 date: 2020-07-14 words: 4141 flesch: 49 summary: “Payment of clinical research subjects.” Phase I clinical trials have replaced Abbott’s gastroenterological experiments, and they have exacerbated the phenomenon known as “guinea-pigging,” in which seemingly healthy volunteers offer themselves up as professional research subjects in exchange for monetary compensation. keywords: clinical; guinea; human; pigs; research; subjects; trials; volunteers cache: bioethics01-6480.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6480.txt item: #196 of 430 id: bioethics01-6481 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6481 date: 2020-07-14 words: 1785 flesch: 39 summary: Patients may be unaware of the need of the physician or hospital to justify the expense of these programs, such as those currently opening for HIPEC treatment, or those that performed bone marrow transplants on breast cancer patients. David Ryan, MD, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, has noted that HIPEC’s use has been growing due to the inability of surgeons to make a living performing it only on appendix cancer patients, its original intent.[9] Because such an innovative surgery involves a departure from standard practice, greater caution and regulation is needed for a number of reasons. keywords: cancer; chemotherapy; consent; hipec; patients cache: bioethics01-6481.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6481.txt item: #197 of 430 id: bioethics01-6482 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6482 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2702 flesch: 51 summary: Bioethicists saw in state apology laws a chance to prevent the devolution of the relationship of doctor-patient into that of defendant-plaintiff. Yet for bioethicists who had hoped that apology laws would benefit the doctor-patient relationship by KEARNS, APOLOGY LAWS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: apology; error; laws; medical; patient cache: bioethics01-6482.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6482.txt item: #198 of 430 id: bioethics01-6483 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6483 date: 2020-07-14 words: 3077 flesch: 47 summary: CONCLUSION Although there is much debate about the interpretations of fMRI studies of VS patients, the evidence for a small amount of consciousness in certain VS patients is compelling. John Stins discusses how current studies on VS patients are like modern-day Turing Tests and believes that criticisms of these studies are similar to those raised against Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment.[vi] keywords: activation; brain; consciousness; owen; patient; turing cache: bioethics01-6483.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6483.txt item: #199 of 430 id: bioethics01-6484 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6484 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2641 flesch: 52 summary: A Survey of Rural Ethics Teaching in North American Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Schools CR Klugman, W.A. Nelson, L.L. Anderson-Shaw, J.A. Gelfond Keywords: rural ethics, teaching medical school INTRODUCTION In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) released Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention: Global Policy Recommendations, a report on strategies for increasing and retaining health care workers in rural regions. The officials were also queried as to whether they offered training specifically in rural health care ethics. keywords: bioethics; ethics; health; medical; nelson; schools; survey cache: bioethics01-6484.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6484.txt item: #200 of 430 id: bioethics01-6485 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6485 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2647 flesch: 54 summary: It was a persistent frustration to Asch that many of her admirers classified her first and foremost as a pioneering voice in clarifying disability rights and tended to overlook or diminish her identity as a Bioethicist. Adrienne Asch: A Career at the Intersection of Bioethics and Disability Studies Sarah Bergstresser Keywords: Adrienne Asch keywords: adrienne; asch; bioethics; disability; studies; task cache: bioethics01-6485.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6485.txt item: #201 of 430 id: bioethics01-6486 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6486 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2526 flesch: 39 summary: Reckoning Two Societies: A Proposal to Provide Compensation for Harm Done to Animal Research Subjects Brandon Sultan Keywords: animal research, research ethics, harm In recent years, federally funded institutions have been criticized and scrutinized for their treatment of animal research subjects. SULTAN, RECKONING TWO SOCIETIES, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, (2013) 2 Philosophical Argument against Animal-Based Research Peter Singer and Tom Reagan have led the rights-based movement against animal research. keywords: animal; humans; research; societies; society cache: bioethics01-6486.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6486.txt item: #202 of 430 id: bioethics01-6487 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6487 date: 2020-07-14 words: 2269 flesch: 46 summary: Over-the-top ancillary care will make people lie about pre-existing conditions in order to become research subjects. Doing so maximizes the benefits of research participants to a point that triggers much less undue inducement than the single standard would. keywords: care; research; standard cache: bioethics01-6487.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6487.txt item: #203 of 430 id: bioethics01-6488 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6488 date: 2020-06-29 words: 862 flesch: 72 summary: The objective of “Death Cafe,” always conducted over coffee and cake, is to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives.” “Death Cafe” attendees have ranged in age from 18-102, gathering in the visitor center at Oakland Cemetery. keywords: cafe; death cache: bioethics01-6488.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6488.txt item: #204 of 430 id: bioethics01-6490 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6490 date: 2020-06-29 words: 2343 flesch: 68 summary: The challenges of global health cannot be overcome with a quick fix model KASCAK, THE CASE AGAINST PRE-HEALTH VOLUNTEERS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL 1 (2014) 4 While short-term medical missions inspire young adults to serve as advocates for global health equity, such trips can generate a flawed understanding of the ways in which the challenges of global health should be addressed. The Case Against Pre-Health Volunteers in Global Health Lauren Kascak Keywords: clinical medicine, global health, health volunteers INTRODUCTION keywords: health; patient; students; term; volunteers cache: bioethics01-6490.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6490.txt item: #205 of 430 id: bioethics01-6493 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6493 date: 2020-06-29 words: 1278 flesch: 62 summary: It was a neighborhood Chast loathed, and she avoided it entirely for the eleven years prior to navigating the complexities of assisted living, nursing homes, and hospice care for her mother and father, Elizabeth and George. Chast agrees with George’s physician that he would be best served by hospice care, but Elizabeth insists soup will do the trick. keywords: care; chast; elizabeth; memoir cache: bioethics01-6493.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6493.txt item: #206 of 430 id: bioethics01-6494 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6494 date: 2020-06-29 words: 834 flesch: 87 summary: The old man leaned back and shrugged his hands to his side and replied, “I have pain Madre, me duele mucho.” And before she could speak the cackling old man said, “You know Madre, when I sit outside, once in a while some of the pretty young women say hi to me.” keywords: priestess cache: bioethics01-6494.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6494.txt item: #207 of 430 id: bioethics01-6495 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6495 date: 2020-06-29 words: 1985 flesch: 83 summary: ANALYSIS Like any other person my age, my way of dealing with Anatomy Lab was to just not think about it. I still remember the first day of Anatomy Lab. keywords: anatomy; lab cache: bioethics01-6495.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6495.txt item: #208 of 430 id: bioethics01-6496 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6496 date: 2020-06-29 words: 901 flesch: 72 summary: Since Mrs. D had previously described the difficulty in finding good doctors, I suggested that she call the office and attempt to resolve this issue over the phone, through an honest conversation with her physician. Mrs. D refuted my suggestion, saying that good doctors should always be available to their patients. keywords: mrs cache: bioethics01-6496.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6496.txt item: #209 of 430 id: bioethics01-6497 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6497 date: 2020-06-27 words: 3611 flesch: 57 summary: Revisiting Nurse Rivers Lisa Kearns Keywords: narrative medicine, Tuskegee study, race INTRODUCTION The Tuskegee syphilis study’s most enduring figure is also one of its most intriguing. Vol.45, No. 3, p. 202 14Ibid., p. 206 15 Ibid., p. 208 16 Reverby, Examining Tuskegee, p. 170 17 Darlene Clark Hine, Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession 1890–1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), p. 92 keywords: health; ibid; nurse; rivers; study; syphilis; tuskegee cache: bioethics01-6497.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6497.txt item: #210 of 430 id: bioethics01-6517 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6517 date: 2020-06-28 words: 449 flesch: 58 summary: The discussion around end-of-life issues largely centers on the right of the patient to choose (to refuse life sustaining treatment, or, in some cases, to end his or her life through physician assisted suicide or euthanasia where it has been legalized) or to preserve life through invasive treatment. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently argued for the legalization of assisted suicide because the ability of a patient to choice is paramount; the editors stated that this was “a matter for Parliament, not doctors to decide.” keywords: life cache: bioethics01-6517.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6517.txt item: #211 of 430 id: bioethics01-6518 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6518 date: 2020-06-28 words: 402 flesch: 46 summary: With this, it can be predicted that drug development costs will reduce, seeing as the need for animal models might be rendered obsolete. ESHIKENA, HOW TO BOYCOTT ANIMAL TESTING, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: animal cache: bioethics01-6518.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6518.txt item: #212 of 430 id: bioethics01-6520 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6520 date: 2020-06-28 words: 1427 flesch: 46 summary: Signatories expressed concerns that the rule places beneficiaries at the center of potential disagreements between hospice providers and Part D plans– “requiring dying patients to navigate payer disputes.” Arnold says this CMS effort places problems within our larger health system on hospice providers. keywords: hospice; medications; patients; policy cache: bioethics01-6520.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6520.txt item: #213 of 430 id: bioethics01-6521 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6521 date: 2020-06-28 words: 1058 flesch: 58 summary: Yet another twist in the situation is the unescapable fact that many women in South Texas are undocumented, and in order to reach the nearest abortion provider they would have to pass an immigration checkpoint. Miso, at it is commonly called, works by inducing a miscarriage during the early stages of pregnancy, and it has long been considered a “lifeline” by Latin American women living in countries where abortions are outlawed. keywords: miso; texas; women cache: bioethics01-6521.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6521.txt item: #214 of 430 id: bioethics01-6522 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6522 date: 2020-06-28 words: 944 flesch: 56 summary: The legal sanction of parenthood now extends beyond individuals who pass along their DNA or choose to adopt children—sperm donors, egg donors, and gestational carriers now vie for the title of parental ownership. ____________________________________________________________ 1 (2014-15) 2 ANALYSIS With the rapid rise in ART, the traditional framework of rightful parentage must be reevaluated, especially when considering sperm donors. keywords: child; sperm cache: bioethics01-6522.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6522.txt item: #215 of 430 id: bioethics01-6523 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6523 date: 2020-06-28 words: 509 flesch: 47 summary: A Public Health Emergency Gabriella Foe* Keywords: palliative care, public health, end of life care INTRODUCTION Increasingly, there has been a push for better access to palliative care. Regardless, medical associations and health organizations are asking for more funding from governments to make palliative care more accessible to those who are dying. keywords: care cache: bioethics01-6523.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6523.txt item: #216 of 430 id: bioethics01-6527 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6527 date: 2020-06-28 words: 262 flesch: 43 summary: The new ruling, removing sex reassignment surgeries from the list of Medicaid ineligible procedures, came as a result of a 74 year-old man’s request for genital excavation in order to obtain the semblance of a vagina. Although there is no general consensus among medical professionals regarding the necessity of sex reassignment surgery to treat gender identity disorder, this ruling may serve to validate this procedure. keywords: sex cache: bioethics01-6527.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6527.txt item: #217 of 430 id: bioethics01-6529 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6529 date: 2020-06-28 words: 1068 flesch: 54 summary: Signing such an order is highly encouraged for the target patient population due to clinical experience and research demonstrating that advance directives are not sufficient by themselves in ensuring that patients’ preferences in health care are respected and honored. However, it must be noted that POLST does not replace an advance directive, as it does not substitute for naming a health care agent or durable power of attorney for health care. keywords: care; patients; polst cache: bioethics01-6529.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6529.txt item: #218 of 430 id: bioethics01-6530 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6530 date: 2020-06-28 words: 919 flesch: 64 summary: At the moment Bill 1274 stands as an unethical limitation on the rights of Louisiana women to make health care decisions about their bodies, decisions that in any other situation they wouldn't need a written will to make. ____________________________________________________________ It sounds as if pregnant women are only being allowed to make autonomous decisions far before such an incident occurs. keywords: bill; case; louisiana cache: bioethics01-6530.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6530.txt item: #219 of 430 id: bioethics01-6531 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6531 date: 2020-07-01 words: 1304 flesch: 55 summary: Kasem’s children released a statement, quoting his advance directive: BELISOMO, THE END-OF-LIFE LESSONS FROM CASEY KASEM’S FAMILY FEUD, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. In recent weeks, the dysfunction and drama of the last days of Casey Kasem, a radio personality who gained fame counting down the country’s top pop, pervaded national headlines. keywords: end; family; kasem; life cache: bioethics01-6531.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6531.txt item: #220 of 430 id: bioethics01-6532 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6532 date: 2020-07-01 words: 911 flesch: 47 summary: Notably, the protocol does not require informed consent according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because patients will be in a life-threatening condition.2 The lack of informed consent required for participants in this study is suspect due to the limited knowledge of outcomes regarding the procedure. By including patients without advance directives, it is impossible to know how patients will react to involuntarily undergoing this procedure. keywords: consent; patients; procedure cache: bioethics01-6532.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6532.txt item: #221 of 430 id: bioethics01-6534 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6534 date: 2020-07-01 words: 390 flesch: 50 summary: The Perfect 46, http://theperfect46.com/index.html SOHO International Film Festival, “2014 Calendar of Events,” http://www.sohofilmfest.com/2014_Season.php http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2014/04/21/the-perfect-46-the-future-is-near/ http://theperfect46.com/index.html http://www.sohofilmfest.com/2014_Season.php How much should we consider genetic compatibility when choosing our significant other? keywords: foe cache: bioethics01-6534.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6534.txt item: #222 of 430 id: bioethics01-6535 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6535 date: 2020-07-01 words: 444 flesch: 29 summary: We welcome constructive comments from stakeholders to improve this plan and to better encourage the voluntary adoption of advance directives by Medicare beneficiaries that can be accessible in real-time by their physicians and hospitals. CONCLUSION Though advance directives are not a panacea for end-of-life decision-making, efforts to encourage advance directives recognizes, at the very least, the importance of end-of-life contemplation. keywords: advance; medicare cache: bioethics01-6535.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6535.txt item: #223 of 430 id: bioethics01-6536 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6536 date: 2020-07-01 words: 830 flesch: 52 summary: Critics of such cost analyses argue that the practice leads to bedside rationing, and thus doctors face an inherent conflict when trying to be both “providers of patient care and financial overseers.” Continuing as we have for the past couple of decades means that treatments costs will increase unimpeded, and with them, health care expenditures. keywords: care; cost; patient cache: bioethics01-6536.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6536.txt item: #224 of 430 id: bioethics01-6537 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6537 date: 2020-07-01 words: 825 flesch: 51 summary: Gender stereotyping cannot be the only cause, since research has shown that men are capable of becoming rape victims and women are capable of being the attackers. Further aggravating some of the more prevalent issues surrounding rape cases are the mixed messages that the internet allows quick access to. keywords: jackson; rape; victims cache: bioethics01-6537.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6537.txt item: #225 of 430 id: bioethics01-6538 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6538 date: 2020-07-01 words: 236 flesch: 39 summary: Transgender surgery at sixteen. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/18/130318fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all College Health Plans Respond as Transgender Students Gain Visibility http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/education/12sexchange.html?_r=0 1 (2014-15) 2 REFERENCES Further Reading on Transgender Health Issues: About a Boy. keywords: transgender cache: bioethics01-6538.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6538.txt item: #226 of 430 id: bioethics01-6539 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6539 date: 2020-07-01 words: 510 flesch: 39 summary: CONCLUSION Aside from its potential benefits, the topic of gene editing raises fear of people wanting designer babies. Crispr is known to work in human cells even though we do not have Crispr-based immune system. keywords: genomic; microsurgery cache: bioethics01-6539.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6539.txt item: #227 of 430 id: bioethics01-6540 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6540 date: 2020-07-01 words: 1253 flesch: 56 summary: Furthermore, it is argued that such interferences may be synonymous to prohibitions that may not resolve the menace of excessive sugar consumption. 1 (2014-15) 2 ANALYSIS Undoubtedly, added sugar continues to be an important source of calorie and a major component in our diets. keywords: consumption; public; sugar cache: bioethics01-6540.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6540.txt item: #228 of 430 id: bioethics01-6541 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6541 date: 2020-07-10 words: 713 flesch: 51 summary: Derek Ayeh* Keywords: vape, e-cigarettes, bioethics, ethics INTRODUCTION With Los Angeles’ move to ban electronic cigarettes from public spaces they could soon be joining Chicago, New York, and others who have restricted the use of this popular and controversial innovation. Advocates argue that E-cigarettes are safe because: they lack the tar and other dangerous chemicals found in regular cigarettes that make smoking dangerous and could help people with addictions to nicotine quit traditional tobacco products. keywords: cigarettes cache: bioethics01-6541.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6541.txt item: #229 of 430 id: bioethics01-6542 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6542 date: 2020-07-10 words: 703 flesch: 51 summary: As in breast cancer, over- diagnosis and treatment of non-aggressive prostate cancers diminishes quality of life. When and if mammography’s benefits outweigh the risks of over-diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer continues to be in dispute. keywords: cancer; preventive; screening cache: bioethics01-6542.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6542.txt item: #230 of 430 id: bioethics01-6543 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6543 date: 2020-07-10 words: 807 flesch: 30 summary: What is missing from today’s system in their eyes is adequate “patient engagement,” in which patients are represented on the ethics committees that approve clinical research. IOM has made a concerted effort and called on healthcare leaders to begin the transformation of their health systems into learning healthcare systems, capable of taking what is learned through clinical research and incorporating it into the improvement of efficiency and quality. keywords: consent; research cache: bioethics01-6543.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6543.txt item: #231 of 430 id: bioethics01-6544 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6544 date: 2020-07-10 words: 424 flesch: 47 summary: CONCLUSION The vacuum that patchwork state laws and TRAP laws create makes room for ill-qualified providers by RINGEL, TRAP LAWS AND THEIR IMPACT ON WOMEN'S HEALTH, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. TRAP laws limit abortions by unnecessarily regulating anything from where (e.g. the kind of building in which) abortions can be performed, to regulating the people who work in the office themselves (e.g. personnel regulations), to charging astronomically high fees to register a clinic within a state. keywords: laws; trap cache: bioethics01-6544.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6544.txt item: #232 of 430 id: bioethics01-6547 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6547 date: 2020-07-10 words: 447 flesch: 63 summary: British doctors, who seem to have taken into cognisance this ethical question, plan to carry out womb transplants with wombs from dead or dying donors. Should wombs from living donors prove more successful than those from dead donors, there is a possibility that more debates on the ethicality of this procedure will progress. keywords: women cache: bioethics01-6547.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6547.txt item: #233 of 430 id: bioethics01-6550 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6550 date: 2020-07-03 words: 182 flesch: 54 summary: Injectable Contraceptive Introduced in Burkina Faso Lillian Ringel Bioethics, Reproductive ethics, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso’s health ministry has begun its initiative to have contraception available to 25% of married women by 2015. The hope is that women in Burkina Faso will eventually be able to administer the medication themselves. keywords: burkina cache: bioethics01-6550.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6550.txt item: #234 of 430 id: bioethics01-6551 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6551 date: 2020-07-10 words: 740 flesch: 62 summary: On the Case of Child Euthanasia Gabriella Foe* Keywords: bioethics, ethics, children, euthanasia INTRODUCTION Opponents of legalizing physician assisted suicide (“PAS”) argue that legalization would create a slippery slope leading to the legalization of euthanasia (also known as “mercy killing”). In Belgium, for instance, where physicians have legally performed euthanasia on adults since 2002, they are now trying to take it a step further: Belgium is considering the legalization of euthanasia for children. keywords: child; euthanasia cache: bioethics01-6551.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6551.txt item: #235 of 430 id: bioethics01-6552 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6552 date: 2020-07-10 words: 874 flesch: 51 summary: REFERENCES Kansas Senate Bill 302, available at: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/sb302/ Hanna, John (2014) Kansas Measure Against Surrogacy Draws Opposition, San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, available at: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kansas-measure-against-surrogacy-draws-opposition-5178143.php Allen, Anita L. (1988) Privacy, Surrogacy and the Baby M Case, Georgetown Law Journal, 76, 1759-1792. The Kansas Senate bill, which is currently facing significant opposition, would criminalize all forms of surrogacy. keywords: kansas; senate; surrogacy cache: bioethics01-6552.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6552.txt item: #236 of 430 id: bioethics01-6553 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6553 date: 2020-07-10 words: 984 flesch: 43 summary: Researchers in Boston have found that both mindfulness meditation and compassion meditation, over the course of eight weeks, can increase the likelihood that a person will give up his or her seat to relieve the suffering of another. The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-morality-of-meditation.html?_r=0 DeSteno et al., “Meditation Increases Compassionate Responses to Suffering,” Psychological Science 24, (2013): 2125-2127. keywords: meditation; participants; study cache: bioethics01-6553.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6553.txt item: #237 of 430 id: bioethics01-6554 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6554 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1073 flesch: 41 summary: The combined effects of psychotherapy and medications indicate faster recovery rates, decreased rate of relapse, improved compliance and satisfaction, and lower long-term health costs.4 Extended conversations and therapeutic interventions may necessitate spending more time with patients, resulting in clinicians being able to see fewer patients overall. The most commonly prescribed drugs were those used to manage high blood pressure and heart disease for patients 60 and older. keywords: health; interventions; patient cache: bioethics01-6554.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6554.txt item: #238 of 430 id: bioethics01-6555 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6555 date: 2020-07-10 words: 927 flesch: 47 summary: Consequently, family members will still have to consider the withdrawal of ANH in order for terminal sedation to be utilized in the dying process; and this is something that the research data show many families are unwilling to do. An article recently published in the Journal of Medical Ethics and open to the public is calling necessary attention to the clinical approach of treating patients in permanent vegetative state (PVS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) in the United Kingdom.1 The administration of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) is a central element of caring for patients with severe brain injury, for it allows physicians to keep the patient alive while exploring other treatment options. keywords: anh; patient cache: bioethics01-6555.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6555.txt item: #239 of 430 id: bioethics01-6556 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6556 date: 2020-07-10 words: 641 flesch: 62 summary: ANALYSIS The woman, Marlise Munoz, was found unconscious in late November and since then has not regained consciousness. REFERENCES Husband Wants Pregnant Wife Off Life Support http://abcnews.go.com/Health/husband-pregnant-wife-off- lifesupport/story?id=21291086&singlePage=true Family of Pregnant Texas Woman Sues Hospital for Keeping her on Life Support http://abcnews.go.com/Health/family-pregnant-texas-woman-sues-hospital- keepinglife/story?id=21531385 keywords: life; texas cache: bioethics01-6556.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6556.txt item: #240 of 430 id: bioethics01-6557 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6557 date: 2020-07-03 words: 568 flesch: 52 summary: Next, acknowledging that those who violate the law must still face consequences, Judge Bennett in his opinion outlined what a neuroscientifically-informed sentence would look like. So, with this in mind, Judge Bennett sentenced the defendant to 31 months in prison, which is six months less than the recommended guidelines. keywords: hendrickson cache: bioethics01-6557.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6557.txt item: #241 of 430 id: bioethics01-6560 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6560 date: 2020-07-03 words: 777 flesch: 47 summary: The Office of the Inspector General had recommended the policy’s implementation to minimize mistakes in which Part D plans covered hospice drugs. However, the more than 40 healthcare organizations and hundreds of hospice providers that have lobbied against the rule in recent weeks maintain it unduly burdened beneficiaries, requiring dying patients to navigate payer disputes. keywords: cms; hospice; policy cache: bioethics01-6560.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6560.txt item: #242 of 430 id: bioethics01-6562 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6562 date: 2020-07-03 words: 908 flesch: 46 summary: 1 (2014-15) 2 Because controversial bioethics issues stem from conflicting hard values and interests between both individuals and institutions, one may expect bioethical expertise to be appealed to in those instances where deliberation most jeopardizes these interests. Bioethics committees can guide the flow but not redirect the torrents – even if they are man- made and heading right toward the city. keywords: bioethics; expertise cache: bioethics01-6562.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6562.txt item: #243 of 430 id: bioethics01-6564 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6564 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1053 flesch: 57 summary: While one can debate administering drugs such as ZMapp and whether such action is prudent and just, one must also ask why this is the only current option. Investing more money into drugs to fight these outbreaks will ensure healthcare workers are much more prepared. keywords: drug; ebola; health cache: bioethics01-6564.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6564.txt item: #244 of 430 id: bioethics01-6565 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6565 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1618 flesch: 55 summary: These costs matter now more than ever, Hammes says, citing the current shift from a fee-for-service healthcare payment system as a reason interest in Respecting Choices implementation is growing. Patients are receiving the care they request, and health systems are cutting costs. ____________________________________________________________ BELISOMO, RESPECTING CHOICES, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: care; choices; end; health; systems cache: bioethics01-6565.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6565.txt item: #245 of 430 id: bioethics01-6566 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6566 date: 2020-07-03 words: 786 flesch: 56 summary: When the Disabled Become Isolated: The Story of Snowflake Dallas Ducar Bioethics, Snowflake, MCS INTRODUCTION On the outskirts of a small town called Snowflake, just 150 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona lies a small community suffering from a disease known as Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Those with MCS suffer from migraines, fatigue, rashes, and other incapacitating symptoms which they believe to be due to chemical sensitivities. keywords: mcs; snowflake cache: bioethics01-6566.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6566.txt item: #246 of 430 id: bioethics01-6568 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6568 date: 2020-07-03 words: 823 flesch: 59 summary: Media attention to Bennett’s story has been positive, with many agreeing that PAS laws ought to be revisited. Gillian Bennett & Physician-Assisted Suicide Joshua Preston Death with Dignity, Gillian Bennett, Newswire, PAS, Physician-Assisted Suicide INTRODUCTION “I want out before the day when I can no longer assess my situation,” wrote Gillian Bennett, a Vancouver woman, in an open letter to be published after her death. keywords: bennett; gillian cache: bioethics01-6568.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6568.txt item: #247 of 430 id: bioethics01-6569 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6569 date: 2020-07-03 words: 325 flesch: 58 summary: Coverage Watch: Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times Stephanie Holmquist Bioethics, Elisabeth Rosenthal You may not have noticed her byline, but chances are you’ve read, and groaned over, Elizabeth Rosenthal’s reporting on healthcare costs for the New York Times. In her “Paying Till It Hurts” series, Rosenthal reports on our national whack-a-mole game of controlling healthcare costs. keywords: rosenthal cache: bioethics01-6569.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6569.txt item: #248 of 430 id: bioethics01-6570 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6570 date: 2020-07-03 words: 727 flesch: 49 summary: However, before the ethical issue of drug or vaccine allocation can even be considered, another ethical dilemma must be addressed—is it ethical for experimental drugs and or vaccines to be distributed before proper research has deemed them safe? Moreover, as mentioned above, if experimental drugs or vaccines were to be allowed, and informed HOWARD, ETHICIZING THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: ebola; health cache: bioethics01-6570.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6570.txt item: #249 of 430 id: bioethics01-6571 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6571 date: 2020-07-03 words: 406 flesch: 63 summary: However, the author could elaborate further on the objections to using experimental drugs. While that argument may be appropriate for other situations, in the case of Ebola epidemic, I do not think it applies. keywords: ebola cache: bioethics01-6571.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6571.txt item: #250 of 430 id: bioethics01-6572 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6572 date: 2020-07-03 words: 998 flesch: 49 summary: Hosted by Professor Dr. Nicole Vincent, it was my first foray into the “neurolaw” world. I am summarizing only three of the four panels (the last of which was on “neuroenhancement”), and as is apparent, more questions were asked than answered. keywords: law; panel; vincent cache: bioethics01-6572.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6572.txt item: #251 of 430 id: bioethics01-6573 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6573 date: 2020-07-03 words: 801 flesch: 34 summary: CONCLUSION Obtaining more concrete and useful data than passenger responses – which are likely to be colored by various factors – could help determine whether a passenger is carrying the Ebola virus and showing Ebola-like symptoms, carrying the virus but not presenting with symptoms, not infected with Ebola but appearing to be sick and febrile, or neither infected nor unwell (i.e., true positives, false negatives, false positives, and true negatives).3 Until we raise our standards for rapidly determining whether or not passengers are suffering from the Ebola disease or have recently been infected with the Ebola virus, certain personal liberties may have be relinquished. Doing so will help contain the pathogen – before passengers present with symptoms – and prevent its spread, all while raising awareness of the pathology and stage of illness in the carrier and/or already ill passenger. keywords: ebola; screening cache: bioethics01-6573.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6573.txt item: #252 of 430 id: bioethics01-6574 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6574 date: 2020-07-03 words: 738 flesch: 58 summary: Despite this fact, a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 56% of gay and bisexual men surveyed have never had discussions about testing for HIV with their doctors, and 27% had never been tested at all.2 ANALYSIS In 2006 the CDC published guidelines for HIV testing that recommended opt-out HIV testing for everyone aged 13-64 years, in all health-care settings.3 Opt-out testing allows patients to decline testing, yet assumes consent. The CDC published these guideline to increase uptake in screening, and because the method of only offering screening to at-risk populations was not practical, nor was it effective.3 The problems surrounding HIV testing stem from the early association and stigmatization of the virus with gay sexual activities, intravenous drug users, and immigrant populations. keywords: hiv; screening; testing cache: bioethics01-6574.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6574.txt item: #253 of 430 id: bioethics01-6576 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6576 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1271 flesch: 42 summary: The project found that when cost as a barrier was removed, the pregnancy rate in those aged 15- 19 dropped significantly,6 adding tangible evidence to support the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that a fuller range of contraception methods and counseling be provided at no cost under the Affordable Care Act. This recommendation comes after the 2012 publication from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists heralding LARC methods to be the easiest, safest, and most effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancy. keywords: contraception; cost; methods cache: bioethics01-6576.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6576.txt item: #254 of 430 id: bioethics01-6577 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6577 date: 2020-07-03 words: 640 flesch: 59 summary: If the majority of abortion clinics are forced to close down, physicians who want to perform abortions would have to relocate to one of the four cities mentioned previously, or even leave the state. The new regulations will leave open clinics in four cities in Texas making it more difficult for those few doctors who want to perform abortions to do so. keywords: texas cache: bioethics01-6577.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6577.txt item: #255 of 430 id: bioethics01-6579 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6579 date: 2020-07-03 words: 961 flesch: 57 summary: Before beginning such difficult dialogue, however, he offered frameworks to facilitate end of life conversations both early and later on in a patient’s disease trajectory. The prevalence of end of life decisions in current media and literature provides an opening for physicians to prompt conversations about the subject with patients, said Anthony Back, a Seattle Cancer Care Alliance medical oncologist, in remarks to the Palliative Care Oncology Symposium in Boston. keywords: end; life; physicians cache: bioethics01-6579.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6579.txt item: #256 of 430 id: bioethics01-6580 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6580 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1462 flesch: 54 summary: 10 Bailey, R. The ethics of egg freezing: What’s wrong with women resetting their biological clocks. 9 Mohapatra, S. Using egg freezing to extend the biological clock: Fertility insurance or false hope. keywords: egg; facebook; freezing; hope; women cache: bioethics01-6580.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6580.txt item: #257 of 430 id: bioethics01-6581 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6581 date: 2020-07-03 words: 1582 flesch: 44 summary: ANALYSIS While Dr. Fins argues for unilateral DNR orders for all Ebola patients from an ethical standpoint, a DNR may be justified based solely on healthcare workers’ inability to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for Ebola patients. If a unilateral DNR is enacted for all Ebola patients, any physicians without a proper understanding of DNR orders may treat Ebola patients less aggressively than they would patients requesting full resuscitative efforts. keywords: cpr; dnr; ebola; patients cache: bioethics01-6581.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6581.txt item: #258 of 430 id: bioethics01-6582 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6582 date: 2020-07-03 words: 781 flesch: 50 summary: As the Moscow Times article highlights, Russia’s current policy of presumed consent harmfully affects the public’s view not only on organ transplantation but also on healthcare professionals and the patient-doctor relationship. Although, presumably, the act of organ removal will subsequently help one or many other patients survive, this beneficence does not outweigh the necessary need for informed consent. keywords: consent; organ cache: bioethics01-6582.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6582.txt item: #259 of 430 id: bioethics01-6583 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6583 date: 2020-07-03 words: 879 flesch: 54 summary: ANALYSIS According to mental health clinicians the loss of psychological insight is widely considered to signal the beginning of a psychotic break. DUCAR, THE DANGERS OF EARLY IDENTIFICATION, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: child; intervention; patients cache: bioethics01-6583.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6583.txt item: #260 of 430 id: bioethics01-6584 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6584 date: 2020-07-03 words: 673 flesch: 57 summary: When leather restraints do not work, it suggests forced medication: (3) If mechanical restraints fail to maintain the appropriate medical effect and/or safe environment, pharmacologic agents (e.g. Haldol, Ativan, etc.) may will be used in accordance with JCAHO guidelines [WHAT ARE THESE GUIDELINES? PRESTON, LEAKED DOCUMENTS RAISE QUESTIONS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: documents; guidelines cache: bioethics01-6584.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6584.txt item: #261 of 430 id: bioethics01-6585 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6585 date: 2020-07-03 words: 784 flesch: 58 summary: ANALYSIS Less than 12 hours before the State of Texas was set to execute Mr. Panetti the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of execution. This decision does not mean that this man will not be executed, but rather, that the appellate court issued a delay in carrying out the execution until the appeal is resolved.1 In this case, the death sentence can be lifted if new evidence is discovered that will exonerate Mr. Panetti. keywords: panetti cache: bioethics01-6585.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6585.txt item: #262 of 430 id: bioethics01-6586 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6586 date: 2020-06-27 words: 913 flesch: 47 summary: COVID-19 as a Call to Responsibility for the Vulnerable Sarah Becker Keywords: nursing homes, care for the elerly, old age, bioethics INTRODUCTION The high COVID-19 death rate among elderly individuals living in nursing homes has been attributed to overworked staff, poor infection control, limited resources, and the transfer of infected individuals into long- term care facilities. CONCLUSION The COVID-19 tragedy sweeping through nursing homes not only requires the prompt action of public health officials, but also demands that we as a society open our eyes to a hidden, underlying tragedy: these inequities that plague our approach to caring for the vulnerable lead us to treat the elderly with mediocrity and neglect rather than integrity and good medicine. keywords: care; vulnerable cache: bioethics01-6586.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6586.txt item: #263 of 430 id: bioethics01-6587 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6587 date: 2020-06-28 words: 846 flesch: 52 summary: The City Board of Supervisors of San Francisco County is considering implementing a law which would mandate “Assisted Outpatient Therapy,” known to many as involuntary treatment of mental health patients on an outpatient basis.1 Mental health patients have commonly been treated as second-class citizens, with little say in the workings of their own community. keywords: law; patients cache: bioethics01-6587.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6587.txt item: #264 of 430 id: bioethics01-6589 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6589 date: 2020-08-24 words: 1516 flesch: 45 summary: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ensuing socio -geographical fragmentation that resulted from it, Russia and the former Eastern Bloc countries have experienced a marked increase in drug trafficking and drug use, which have been steadily rising since then. In spite of substantial evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of medication-assisted therapies, the Kremlin insists on funding abstinence-based drug treatment, a method called “narcology,” as the preferred and only officially sanctioned “cure” for drug addiction. keywords: aids; drug; hiv; russia cache: bioethics01-6589.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6589.txt item: #265 of 430 id: bioethics01-6590 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6590 date: 2020-08-24 words: 2161 flesch: 46 summary: Regardless of these ethical concerns, public health laws are still created and generally accepted with the understanding that people enter into a social contract and willingly forgo some self-interest in exchange for protection, or otherwise face a tragedy of the commons.[7] The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma that arises when multiple individuals, each acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest, ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long -term interest for this to happen.[8] One case that illustrates public health efforts to avoid the “tragedy of the commons” is the case of mandatory vaccination laws and herd immunity. Lessons Learned through Michael Bloomberg’s Mayorship in New York City Donna Hanrahan Keywords: public health, New York City, INTRODUCTION Michael Bloomberg has been touted as the nation’s first “public health” mayor. keywords: campaigns; health; individual; law; measures; public cache: bioethics01-6590.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6590.txt item: #266 of 430 id: bioethics01-6591 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6591 date: 2020-08-24 words: 3270 flesch: 56 summary: Inner -city children are disproportionately represented in the pool of asthmatic children, as well as the pool of children in foster care. My head is clouded with images of foster children and clinical trials, vulnerable subjec ts, and ethical valuations. keywords: aids; care; children; emmanuel; foster; human; justice; research cache: bioethics01-6591.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6591.txt item: #267 of 430 id: bioethics01-6592 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6592 date: 2020-08-24 words: 547 flesch: 59 summary: A successful career is no protection from a life altering brain injury syndrome, generally labeled chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI). Boxing and Neuroethics Stephanie Holmquist Keywords: neuroethics, contact sports, brain injury, football Muhammad Ali has Parkinson’s disease. keywords: boxing; brain cache: bioethics01-6592.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6592.txt item: #268 of 430 id: bioethics01-6593 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6593 date: 2020-08-24 words: 2064 flesch: 44 summary: Supporters of rule-utilitarian individualism claim that research participants are the best judges of their own selves and interest. The Sin and Guilt of Inaction Dallas Ducar Keywords: individual, society, bioethics, utalitarianism There is significant tension between the value of the individual and society within clinical research. keywords: consent; individual; jonas; research; rule cache: bioethics01-6593.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6593.txt item: #269 of 430 id: bioethics01-6594 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6594 date: 2020-08-24 words: 1883 flesch: 46 summary: Although the interest view can be used to define the moral status of embryos, this definition alone cannot adequately direct us when deciding what ought to be done with frozen embryos. Callahan claims that the only way to make a just claim for embryo research would be through “stripping pre - implantation embryos of any value at all,” a statement I believe leaves these embryos very little moral defense. keywords: embryos; research; respect; status cache: bioethics01-6594.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6594.txt item: #270 of 430 id: bioethics01-6595 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6595 date: 2020-08-24 words: 1262 flesch: 31 summary: Public oversight is necessary, but not sufficient, to assure ethical behavior on the part of physicians and biomedical scientists. Unchecked by self-regulation within the biomedical profession, public oversight has the potential to undermine its own valid objectives. keywords: medical; profession; public cache: bioethics01-6595.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6595.txt item: #271 of 430 id: bioethics01-6596 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6596 date: 2020-08-24 words: 3923 flesch: 54 summary: This paper will explain that it is unnecessary to place biobank research within the scope of public health to ensure a desired amount of public participation; in fact, this line of argument should be discouraged. And although the ultimate goal of biobank research is personalized medicine, solving public health issues is its immediate concern.13 Biobank research is designed to explore the connection between genes and diseases, allowing for health services to improve. keywords: biobank; consent; participants; public; research; researchers cache: bioethics01-6596.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6596.txt item: #272 of 430 id: bioethics01-6598 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6598 date: 2020-08-24 words: 1435 flesch: 42 summary: Of Free Trade Agreements, Pharmaceuticals and Global Ethics Sylvia English Keywords: supply chain, business, policy, free trade agreement, global The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed multilateral free trade agreement between 12 countries; Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, USA and Vietnam. Much has been made of the US potentially removing restrictions and allowing New Zealand market access. keywords: cost; new; trade; zealand cache: bioethics01-6598.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6598.txt item: #273 of 430 id: bioethics01-6599 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6599 date: 2020-08-24 words: 1707 flesch: 44 summary: Many people of color purchase and use skin bleaching products that later cause skin discoloration, skin cancer and other medical problems. Some critics may point out that people of color who choose to purchase and use skin bleaching products in excess are responsible for their own health risks. keywords: bleaching; health; products; skin cache: bioethics01-6599.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6599.txt item: #274 of 430 id: bioethics01-6605 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6605 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1525 flesch: 54 summary: Leigh Turner, Associate Professor for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, has criticized bioethics for exactly this tendency. “We failed to get Freddie Gray timely medical care after arrest,” CNN, April 24th, 2015. keywords: bioethics; field; lives; silence cache: bioethics01-6605.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6605.txt item: #275 of 430 id: bioethics01-6606 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6606 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1807 flesch: 49 summary: There would be a decrease in urban blight through development of empty lots and repurposing of abandoned dwellings, an increase in the availability of fresh food in neighborhoods that otherwise lack access to healthy and affordable food, and urban communities would experience a sense of agency in their health. My hope is that in the coming years physicians will see the positive effects of prescribing a diet with a higher ratio of fresh, plant-based foods, and offer it as a more sustainable and affordable lifestyle intervention for patients, especially in urban communities. keywords: community; diet; foods; health; meat; plant cache: bioethics01-6606.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6606.txt item: #276 of 430 id: bioethics01-6607 author: Sebastian title: bioethics01-6607 date: 2015-03-09 words: 2199 flesch: 37 summary: When it comes to personal health, there seems to be a disconnect between what people profess they want and what people do. The overarching theme for advancing health is the absolute need for a more just and caring society with much depending on understanding the interaction between material disadvantage and its social meanings. 13 The problems of, and the reasons for poor health are complex. keywords: disease; health; people; percent; responsibility; united cache: bioethics01-6607.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6607.txt item: #277 of 430 id: bioethics01-6608 author: Emmanuel title: The Quest for Ethical Isometric Principles in Cross-Cultural Biomedical Research-An Opinion date: 2015-02-16 words: 2587 flesch: 36 summary: Can researchers and research participants agree on some operational ethical principles especially if there are differences? Since 2002, nearly 15% of clinical researches registered with the FDA have been conducted in developing countries.2 keywords: clinical; norms; participants; principles; research; researchers cache: bioethics01-6608.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6608.txt item: #278 of 430 id: bioethics01-6609 author: Cafe title: bioethics01-6609 date: 2015-01-25 words: 1607 flesch: 46 summary: Among them, my father, uncle, and sister all attended combined medical programs, making me aware that such a path was an option. While the average age of acceptance into medical school is 24, suggesting that a significant percentage of students do not matriculate into medical school directly after college, many students begin preparing during high school. keywords: programs; school; students cache: bioethics01-6609.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6609.txt item: #279 of 430 id: bioethics01-6610 author: Sebastian title: bioethics01-6610 date: 2015-01-25 words: 1158 flesch: 50 summary: While medical professionals do not necessarily have to become political, they can still communicate with other professionals (i.e. human-rights attorneys) about their observations and what they can do collaboratively to not only address the medical needs of these people, but aid in changing the laws and policies as well. Medical professionals should not treat patients strictly with bandages and a scalpel. keywords: bioethics; laws; policies cache: bioethics01-6610.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6610.txt item: #280 of 430 id: bioethics01-6611 author: None title: bioethics01-6611 date: 2015-01-25 words: 1503 flesch: 42 summary: But if a patient, perhaps one with a longstanding relationship with his or her doctor, were to supply a recommendation for an Italian restaurant; that information would never become protected health information simply because it is not health information. The HIPAA regulations contain extensive descriptions of permissible de-identified pieces of protected health information. keywords: health; information; patient cache: bioethics01-6611.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6611.txt item: #281 of 430 id: bioethics01-6612 author: Dallas M. Ducar title: The Obligation to Prevent date: 2015-01-25 words: 2307 flesch: 47 summary: Cost- effectiveness of nutritional counseling for obese patients and patients at risk of ischemic heart disease. The most commonly prescribed drugs are those used to manage high blood pressure and heart disease for patients 60 years of age and older.2 Additionally, the most commonly prescribed drugs for people ages 20 to 59 were antidepressants.3 keywords: care; hcps; health; medicine; patient; systems; time; university cache: bioethics01-6612.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6612.txt item: #282 of 430 id: bioethics01-6613 author: Sebastian title: bioethics01-6613 date: 2015-01-25 words: 1614 flesch: 35 summary: Today’s emphasis on avoiding undue inducement may actually have the unintended consequence of allowing corporate sponsors of human research to undercompensate research participants. An undue inducement occurs when “the offered good leads to poor judgment which makes us take unnecessary, unreasonable, and excessive risk of harm, whether physical harm or the harm of violating important values”.3 Many have argued that the rationale for undue inducement is paternalistic, and that restricting the range of options for research participants places unreasonable limits on their freedom.4 As reported in a recent Wall Street Journal article, scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are considering whether to go forward with research that involves infecting healthy people with dengue fever.5 Although volunteers will be paid, ethics committees will weigh “what would be reasonable and what would be considered coercive”.5 keywords: compensation; human; participants; research cache: bioethics01-6613.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6613.txt item: #283 of 430 id: bioethics01-6614 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6614 date: 2020-06-30 words: 2070 flesch: 46 summary: Most arguments conclude either that human embryos have moral status equal to that of developed humans and ESCR is morally impermissible, or that human embryos have no moral status even as organisms distinct from humans. They assert that human embryos have moral status because they are alive, they have a special relationship with the humans that constitute them (donors), and they are valued by sincere moral authorities. keywords: embryos; humans; status cache: bioethics01-6614.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6614.txt item: #284 of 430 id: bioethics01-6615 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6615 date: 2020-06-30 words: 2124 flesch: 53 summary: Besides the condition of heightened vulnerability, Brazilian patients face the lack of communication with family members, as visits to hospitals are not allowed. The aim of this paper is to discuss types of mourning caused by COVID-19 in the lives of Brazilians from three perspectives: health professionals; infected patients and their families; and other non-infected individuals in society. keywords: bioethics; brazil; care; covid-19; health; internet; pandemic; weigand cache: bioethics01-6615.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6615.txt item: #285 of 430 id: bioethics01-6622 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6622 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1033 flesch: 51 summary: NIBURSKI, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. Forget that such complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) lacks the long-term rigor of scientific study, that the therapeutic effect on particular populations such as lactating woman or children are not known, that the claims of efficacy remain largely unsubstantiated save for the occasional hearsay, and that many of the CAM providers lack significant medical training.5,6 Forget that even if there is a causal link between one natural product and the abatement of disease, these macromolecules are often isolated in pharmaceuticals and modified for maximum potency.7Forget, too, that the stores of these compounds are at best heterogeneous due to variability in temperature and growing conditions,5 that the batches will NIBURSKI, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: ingredients; medicine; niburski; supplements cache: bioethics01-6622.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6622.txt item: #286 of 430 id: bioethics01-6623 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6623 date: 2020-07-08 words: 927 flesch: 49 summary: Yet, the hope that new scientific messages will change the minds of parents may be unfounded. When scientific arguments do not work, what is left to convince those who will remain unconvinced? keywords: morals; parents; values cache: bioethics01-6623.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6623.txt item: #287 of 430 id: bioethics01-6624 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6624 date: 2020-07-08 words: 493 flesch: 47 summary: For scholars and activists this means “the interaction of partisanship and framing can influence approval of neurolaw, particularly with regard to the use of brain science to help defendants receive less severe punishment” (95). What Shen and Gromet found is that while the general attitude toward neurolaw is neutral, “Republicans’ approval of [it] decreases when neuroscience is seen as primarily serving to reduce offender culpability, whereas Democrats’ approval is unaffected by how neurolaw is framed” (86). keywords: neurolaw cache: bioethics01-6624.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6624.txt item: #288 of 430 id: bioethics01-6625 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6625 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1078 flesch: 47 summary: It is vital that healthcare providers learn about HIV laws and educate patients, as well as find opportunities to present objective scientific evidence to prosecutors about HIV transmission risk. HOWARD, REEVALUATING CURRENT HIV LAWS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: hiv; laws; transmission cache: bioethics01-6625.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6625.txt item: #289 of 430 id: bioethics01-6626 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6626 date: 2020-07-08 words: 674 flesch: 61 summary: Remembering John Arras Dallas Ducar Keywords: John Arras, Philosopher, Ethics John Arras, a down-to-earth, outspoken, and kind-hearted philosopher, died after having a stroke on Monday March 9th, in Galveston, Texas at the age of 69.Professor Arras lived in Charlottesville, Virginia where he taught courses in bioethics such as research ethics, reproductive ethics, and a newly minted neuroethics course. Yet Professor Arras also had his serious moments. keywords: arras; bioethics cache: bioethics01-6626.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6626.txt item: #290 of 430 id: bioethics01-6627 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6627 date: 2020-07-08 words: 786 flesch: 68 summary: In problem gamblers, he warns, wagering rewards the same pleasure pathways activated by illegal drugs. Employers are sometimes challenged in identifying workers struggling, as problem gamblers are often skilled at hiding their addictions. keywords: gambling; problem cache: bioethics01-6627.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6627.txt item: #291 of 430 id: bioethics01-6628 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6628 date: 2020-07-08 words: 771 flesch: 44 summary: 2 Ann-Sofi Matthiesen, Ann-Marie Widström, Mario Lepage, Louise Dumas, Ksenia Bystrova, Barbara Welles- Nyström, “Influence of Skin-to-Skin Contact and Roomin-In on Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Clinical Nursing Research 22, No. 3 (2013): 310-336. ANALYSIS The differences between family-centered C-sections and conventional C-sections is that mothers and fathers are given the option to watch the surgery and the delivery of their child, and in an additional effort to approximate a vaginal birth, as soon as the baby is delivered it is placed on the mother’s chest for skin-to-skin contact (which has been shown to provide a clinical benefit for newborns)2,3 keywords: contact; skin cache: bioethics01-6628.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6628.txt item: #292 of 430 id: bioethics01-6629 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6629 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1430 flesch: 35 summary: A recent storyline in Showtime’s Shameless portrays a lucrative breast milk sweatshop that operates in the attic of a fictional Chicago bar, and online community forums entice stay-at-home moms to “turn their extra milk into extra cash” at up to $23,000 per year.6 Indeed, the digital age has made breast milk more accessible; however, online sales are unregulated and do not necessarily screen milk for contamination or tampering, which is often unbeknownst to buyers.7 In fact, recent studies have uncovered dangerous levels of salmonella, staph, and strep in unscreened breast milk that was sold in several leading online marketplaces, as well as instances of intentional tampering—including the addition of illicit drugs, cow’s milk, or water. In recent months, a controversy surrounding the commodification of breast milk has resurfaced, indicating that the currently uncontrolled market may need regulation.1 In autumn 2014, a corporation called Medolac Laboratories sought to purchase breast milk from low-income African American mothers in Detroit. keywords: breast; march; milk; mothers; online cache: bioethics01-6629.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6629.txt item: #293 of 430 id: bioethics01-6630 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6630 date: 2020-07-08 words: 751 flesch: 47 summary: Religious Clinicians Refuse to Provide Care to LGBTQ Families Dallas M. Ducar Keywords: Religion, Ethics, Clinical Refusal INTRODUCTION While LGBTQ persons are being welcomed at altars around the nation, sexual and gender orientation is still not protected within many clinical spaces. While Michigan’s laws do ban discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, and marital status, it does not include sexual or gender orientation.2 Even if the Michigan legislature were to amend this law to add protection for LGBTQ couples, this would not apply across the nation. keywords: care; law cache: bioethics01-6630.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6630.txt item: #294 of 430 id: bioethics01-6631 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6631 date: 2020-07-08 words: 991 flesch: 62 summary: But on crowdsourcing platforms such as Kickstarter or GoFundMe, it is becoming the case that what you have is what you sell: your body. Form expresses content, and crowdsourcing platforms are further constrained to the offerings of a screen: text and video. keywords: case; crowdsourcing; niburski cache: bioethics01-6631.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6631.txt item: #295 of 430 id: bioethics01-6632 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6632 date: 2020-07-08 words: 793 flesch: 49 summary: Because such a circumstance drastically narrows this pool, Salomon said “moving the dial” with regard to living organ donors is an urgent strategy. “Donor costs should be incorporated into the cost of the transplant,” said Tom Mone, CEO of OneLegacy, the nation’s largest organ procurement organization. keywords: donation; donors; organ cache: bioethics01-6632.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6632.txt item: #296 of 430 id: bioethics01-6633 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6633 date: 2020-07-08 words: 811 flesch: 52 summary: Editing human embryos is contentious because, in theory, any changes made to the genetic line can be passed along to successive generations. Perhaps most importantly, genome editing within human embryos using these current methods could result in long-term unpredictable effects on subsequent generations. keywords: embryos; researchers cache: bioethics01-6633.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6633.txt item: #297 of 430 id: bioethics01-6634 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6634 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1068 flesch: 52 summary: 1 (2014-15) 2 ANALYSIS The planning-guide that has received such praise, Voicing My CHOiCES™, is the first of its kind to be produced for—with the input from—adolescent and young adult patients. The movement to include young patients in their own EoL planning faces many challenges. keywords: care; guide; patients cache: bioethics01-6634.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6634.txt item: #298 of 430 id: bioethics01-6635 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6635 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1539 flesch: 49 summary: The NY Times recently published anecdotal accounts of expanding use of stimulants by working adults, and cited a federal report that indicated emergency room visits caused by non-medical use of prescription stimulants tripled from 2005 to 2011.4 ANALYSIS Back in 2008, Greely et al. published a Nature paper advocating for a responsible and thoughtful response to the “growing demand for cognitive enhancement.”5 Greely et al. maintained that competent adults should be able to use drugs for cognitive enhancement, although they did express concern that coercion to enhance cognition might occur directly or indirectly (through, for example, “the need to compete with enhanced classmates and colleagues”).5 keywords: drugs; enhancement; times; use cache: bioethics01-6635.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6635.txt item: #299 of 430 id: bioethics01-6636 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6636 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1300 flesch: 28 summary: Though California Health & Safety Code (7052(a)) provides that the unlawful disinterment of human remains is a felony, there are no existing provisions addressing cemeterial mistakes that potentially endanger the sanctity of human remains.11 CONCLUSION Theories of human dignity ought to consider the value and inviolability of a human being after personhood. In recent history, several notable events have called into question the treatment of human remains. keywords: bioethics; cemetery; dignity; human; remains cache: bioethics01-6636.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6636.txt item: #300 of 430 id: bioethics01-6637 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6637 date: 2020-07-08 words: 990 flesch: 40 summary: 1 (2014-15) 2 is evidenced by the more than 20 states that have introduced “Right to Try” bills since 2014.8 However, critics of the bills have emphasized that drug companies, as opposed to the FDA, are the major roadblock to drug access under compassionate use.1 FDA is no longer the problem, but it is not a simple matter for drug companies to handle compassionate use requests. keywords: access; drug; use cache: bioethics01-6637.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6637.txt item: #301 of 430 id: bioethics01-6638 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6638 date: 2020-07-08 words: 1115 flesch: 48 summary: Mr. Rayhons was prosecuted under a 1989 Iowa state law that includes inability to consent in defining marital rape.2 In contrast to the 1970s, the legal construction of sexual consent for unmarried adults is now a fraught issue, especially for college students. Neither the legal conception of sexual consent in marriage nor the explicit “affirmative consent” model is helpful in structuring sexual relations between AD patients and the spouses or partners they have committed to prior to the onset of their disease. keywords: consent; rayhons; sex cache: bioethics01-6638.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6638.txt item: #302 of 430 id: bioethics01-6656 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6656 date: 2020-08-24 words: 916 flesch: 44 summary: Patients on a Midnight Bus to Anywhere Sebastian Agredo Keywords: lawsuit, patients, vulnerable INTRODUCTION This case illustrates that some institutions will forego good judgment and “dump” vulnerable patients in a foreign city, without so much as a hand to guide them to safe care. keywords: conclusion; lawsuit; patients cache: bioethics01-6656.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6656.txt item: #303 of 430 id: bioethics01-6657 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6657 date: 2020-08-24 words: 571 flesch: 57 summary: Gabriella Foe Keywords: gene, society, child, DNA, genetic screening, MIT GABRIELLA FOE, ONE STEP CLOSER TO GATTACA,, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, 2013 2 “Prenatal DNA Sequencing” by Antonio Regalado April 23, 2013. keywords: child cache: bioethics01-6657.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6657.txt item: #304 of 430 id: bioethics01-6659 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6659 date: 2020-08-24 words: 470 flesch: 43 summary: The plaintiffs accused the League of concealing information about the dangers of repeated hits to the head, including minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI), concussions, and most significantly, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain condition similar to Alzheimer’s disease. Until relatively recently, the NFL has remained on the sidelines when i t comes to brain injuries and their associated long-term neurodegenerative pathologies. keywords: concussions; nfl cache: bioethics01-6659.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6659.txt item: #305 of 430 id: bioethics01-6660 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6660 date: 2020-08-24 words: 709 flesch: 37 summary: Hopefully, the success of medical schools taking such a broad perspective in their curriculum will trickle down and allow undergraduate pre-medical students the same access to the seemingly JHIA JACKSON, TAKING A BROAD PERSPECTIVE, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, 2013 2 self-contained realms of both science and the humanities. The University of Washington is just one example of this trend in medical education. keywords: education; medicine cache: bioethics01-6660.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6660.txt item: #306 of 430 id: bioethics01-6662 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6662 date: 2020-07-07 words: 696 flesch: 49 summary: Many argue a renewed trust in medicine, science, and public health will result from COVID-19 yet there is evidence of distrust after public health officials were wrong to suggest certain measures like mask wearing would be ineffective and others, like wearing gloves would be highly preventive. Democrats tended to lean into trusting public health wanting to follow orders some of which proved useless, others of which, like stay-at-home orders and closing businesses, saved lives, flattened the curve, and slowed viral transmission. keywords: bioethics; voices cache: bioethics01-6662.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6662.txt item: #307 of 430 id: bioethics01-6667 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6667 date: 2020-07-10 words: 2343 flesch: 48 summary: Keywords: suffering, philosophy, natural disaster, metaphysics, social suffering, ethical disaster management INTRODUCTION Context: A Series of Unfolding Tragedies The categorization of disasters as natural or manmade does little for our understanding of the moral stakes of individuals, institutions, and collectives in disasters. Disasters that are understood as events of social suffering inspire a necessary collective ethical response, limiting apathy. keywords: disasters; response; social; suffering; understanding cache: bioethics01-6667.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6667.txt item: #308 of 430 id: bioethics01-6669 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6669 date: 2020-07-10 words: 3344 flesch: 40 summary: Officials knew Flint water was toxic but allowed countless people, especially children, to be sacrificed for financial savings. On March 23, 2016 – the same day that the NYT published its article concerning the Report – the WP released an article entitled “Scathing independent report blames state officials for Flint water crisis. keywords: crisis; environmental; flint; lead; officials; racism; report; water cache: bioethics01-6669.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6669.txt item: #309 of 430 id: bioethics01-6684 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6684 date: 2020-08-03 words: 2233 flesch: 48 summary: Some proponents of prisoner organ donation believe that worries about informed consent are faulty and that, in reality, consent is a non-issue. The development of an ethical system of prisoner organ donation has relevance that extends beyond Chinese borders. keywords: china; consent; donation; organ; prisoners; transplantation cache: bioethics01-6684.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6684.txt item: #310 of 430 id: bioethics01-6685 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6685 date: 2020-08-03 words: 2368 flesch: 37 summary: False Hopes, Informed Consent: The Problem of Therapeutic Misconception and Stage I Clinical Trials Jennifer Cable Keywords: clinical trials, dying, therapeutic misconception INTRODUCTION In America, with our closely held values of optimism and perseverance, we are very often loath to confront death and dying; cancer patients are told to fight, to hold on to a positive attitude, to nurture faith and hope. ANALYSIS Patients enrolling in many types of clinical trials can be affected by what has been termed therapeutic misconception. keywords: benefit; misconception; patients; stage; trials cache: bioethics01-6685.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6685.txt item: #311 of 430 id: bioethics01-6686 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6686 date: 2020-07-27 words: 1750 flesch: 43 summary: Less than half of Indian women have a skilled attendant when giving birth, with less than 40 percent of births occurring in hospital settings. Both perspectives fall short of the complex reality of these arrangements, which have the paradoxical potential for simultaneously oppressing and liberating Indian woman. keywords: autonomy; justice; surrogacy; women cache: bioethics01-6686.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6686.txt item: #312 of 430 id: bioethics01-6687 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6687 date: 2020-08-03 words: 2220 flesch: 35 summary: ILLES, HARMS OF SECONDHAND SMOKING, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, (2013) Data Torturing, the Harms of Secondhand Smoking, and Why Disputing the Indisputable is still worth our while Judit Illes Keywords: secondhand smoking, data torturing, scientific integrity INTRODUCTION Last February keywords: anti; data; health; public; secondhand; smoke; smoking; tobacco cache: bioethics01-6687.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6687.txt item: #313 of 430 id: bioethics01-6688 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6688 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1909 flesch: 36 summary: Data collected from these executions is touted as “contributing greatly to the research on subjects like the dying process of the criminal, the physiological changes before and after the injection into a healthy person, the residual tox in in different organs after the injection of the toxin, psychological changes of a person facing death, [and] organ transplant after the injection,” according to a Liaoshen Evening News article.1 According to David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer, the shift from gunshot execution of prisoners to injection of prisoners is a deliberate effort to paralyze and remove the organs while the body is still animate. In contrast, the Islamic Republic of Iran allows paid kidney donations but strictly regulates the allocation of organs to non-residents, thereby restricting the international organ trade.4 Transplant tourists—those who travel out of their home country to secure organ transplants abroad—should consider that China has yet to develop a system for recovering organs from those who die in hospitals and voluntarily donate their organs, as is international practice; no regional or national system exists for obtaining consent to donate organs pre-mortem from the deceased, or post-mortem from the relatives.2 keywords: china; organ; prisoners; tourists; transplant; transplantation cache: bioethics01-6688.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6688.txt item: #314 of 430 id: bioethics01-6689 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6689 date: 2020-08-03 words: 2145 flesch: 55 summary: In 2006, the estimated rate of induced abortion in South Korea was 105 cases per 1,000 married women aged 15 to 44 years.3 Since this survey included only married women, it underestimates the rate of induced abortions in other groups of women, such as single wome n or teenagers. Therefore, Korean women may use abortion as a form of birth control rather than preventing pregnancy with OCPs. keywords: abortion; korea; ocps; south; women cache: bioethics01-6689.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6689.txt item: #315 of 430 id: bioethics01-6690 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6690 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1101 flesch: 35 summary: The challenge of regulating international trade in medical care is obvious and becomes particularly acute when there are insurers and employers involved. Complicating matters further, medical care that takes place outside the country of origin of the patient is often brokered by “medical concierge services,” which, though quick to claim indemnity from any harm arising from substandard or inappropriate medical care, cannot be divorced from responsibility for the health outcomes of their clients. keywords: care; healthcare; tourism cache: bioethics01-6690.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6690.txt item: #316 of 430 id: bioethics01-6691 author: Awele Utomi title: bioethics01-6691 date: 2020-08-03 words: 749 flesch: 55 summary: In Defense of the Nanny State Lisa Kearns Keywords: nanny-state, soda ban, New York INTRODUCTION New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a September 2006 speech, endorsed the forceful application of the law as the principal instrument of public health policy. Bloomberg himself argued in that 2006 speech that information campaigns are “insufficient to the enormous tasks” involved in implementing public health policy, which is why he believes the full force of law to be necessary. keywords: bloomberg; health; soda cache: bioethics01-6691.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6691.txt item: #317 of 430 id: bioethics01-6695 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6695 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1503 flesch: 42 summary: Under the new Affordable Care Act (ACA), Ascension Health, a Catholic healthcare provider has reported growth in Medicaid revenues from outpatient care outpacing increases from inpatient revenue, which suggests increased Medicaid outpatient demand.4 In order to shape an appropriate solution an ethics for outpatient care must be envisioned. keywords: care; ethics; homes; new; quarter; york cache: bioethics01-6695.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6695.txt item: #318 of 430 id: bioethics01-6696 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6696 date: 2020-08-03 words: 639 flesch: 68 summary: Poop, Death and Other Health Taboos from Ideo’s Paul Bennett Randi Belisomo Keywords: death, terminal illness INTRODUCTION Poop. BELISOMO, POOP, DEATH AND OTHER HEALTH TABOOS FROM IDEO’S PAUL BENNETT, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: bennett; death cache: bioethics01-6696.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6696.txt item: #319 of 430 id: bioethics01-6697 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6697 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1297 flesch: 33 summary: 9 Given the potential of screening samples to benefit public health research—the CDC has even stated that NDBS “is one of the nation’s most successful public health programs”—it is unsurprising that the NSSLRA provision has alarmed public health officials.10 Since the 1960s, newborn babies have been screened by newborn dried bloodspot screening (“NDBS”), an assay developed by microbiologist Robert Guthrie, which involves pricking the heel of a newborn and placing several bloodspots on a collection card made of special filter paper.1 The bloodspot card is then sent to a state laboratory for testing, usually within forty-eight hours of collection. keywords: health; newborn; research; screening cache: bioethics01-6697.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6697.txt item: #320 of 430 id: bioethics01-6698 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6698 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1292 flesch: 55 summary: This means that this community, along with others in the United States, has lower vaccination rates than countries suffering from extreme poverty and civil war. Moreover, academic assessments of religious beliefs have found no evidence of organized religions prohibiting vaccines. keywords: exemptions; parents; vaccines cache: bioethics01-6698.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6698.txt item: #321 of 430 id: bioethics01-6699 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6699 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1453 flesch: 55 summary: With regard to using frozen eggs posthumously, one of the most significant aspects to consider is the psychological well being of the “pretermitted” child.2 One could argue that many children grow up without meeting one or both of their genetic parents. The HFEA also considered the context of this case, including the fact that the genetic material are eggs; they are not embryos. keywords: daughter; eggs; mother cache: bioethics01-6699.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6699.txt item: #322 of 430 id: bioethics01-6700 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6700 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1020 flesch: 25 summary: Why We Don’t Need a MERS Vaccine Pranav Aurora Keywords: vaccine development, MERS, global outbreak, prevention, public health INTRODUCTION On the heels of the Ebola outbreak, the globe is confronting another potential pandemic – the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus. According to the UN, MERS is not a global threat.4 MERS transmission is substantially lower than the Severe Acute Respiratory Virus (SARS), a virus in the same family as MERS that claimed over 800 lives globally in 2003. keywords: health; mers; vaccine cache: bioethics01-6700.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6700.txt item: #323 of 430 id: bioethics01-6713 author: Microsoft Office User title: TF_Template_Word_Mac_2011 date: 2020-07-17 words: 2000 flesch: 45 summary: Even among those primarily motivated by financial gain, many factors play into their decision.[endnoteRef:6] Both firefighters and clinical research participants accept financial compensation for their service, yet it is only research participant compensation that is viewed as coercive. “Money, coercion, and undue inducement: A survey of attitudes about payments to research participants.” keywords: clinical; compensation; firefighters; participants; research; risk cache: bioethics01-6713.docx plain text: bioethics01-6713.txt item: #324 of 430 id: bioethics01-6714 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6714 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1029 flesch: 28 summary: Pharma, Prescription Opioids, and Heroin Plague—Where We are Now Stephanie Holmquist Keywords: drugs, FDA, heroin, pharmaceutical companies, prescription opioids INTRODUCTION Opioid drug manufacturers are largely responsible for the tsunami of prescription drug deaths and increase in heroin addiction of the last fifteen years. Opioid drug manufacturers trumpet their contributions to mitigating the hazards of prescription opioid over use. keywords: heroin; opioid; prescription cache: bioethics01-6714.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6714.txt item: #325 of 430 id: bioethics01-6715 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6715 date: 2020-08-03 words: 799 flesch: 60 summary: The solicitation and fulfillment of three simple wishes among patients nearing death within intensive care units and their families may bring peace to the end of life process and ease grief, according to a newly published study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. ANALYSIS The Canadian researchers invited patients and families in a 21-bed medical-surgical ICU to participate in the “Three Wishes Project” after a decision was made to withdraw life support (probability of death greater than 95 percent). keywords: care; wishes cache: bioethics01-6715.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6715.txt item: #326 of 430 id: bioethics01-6716 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6716 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1470 flesch: 38 summary: The Baby Gammy scandal, along with other media exposes of surrogacy scandals in Thailand resulted in Thailand changing its law.7 As of July 30th 2015, Thailand will only permit “Thai heterosexual couples married for more than three years” to procure a surrogate.8 Those who violate the new law may be subject to “10 years in prison and a fine of up to 200,000 baht ($6,200).”9 Notably, the new law also grants intended parents full parental rights of the child when the child is born. Intended parents would not contract with surrogates that they believe would not allow them to be the legal parents of the child created. keywords: child; parents; surrogacy cache: bioethics01-6716.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6716.txt item: #327 of 430 id: bioethics01-6717 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6717 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1276 flesch: 25 summary: Accessed at: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/crispr-dna-editing-2/ 3 Further reading on donor conceived children: • Donor Conception Network: http://www.dcnetwork.org/about • The Anonymous Us Project: http://anonymousus.org • Is there a meaningful difference to the condition of human life when the ‘chance’ or ‘surprise’ nature of a child is removed from the fact of being born? keywords: child; human; technology cache: bioethics01-6717.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6717.txt item: #328 of 430 id: bioethics01-6718 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6718 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1053 flesch: 35 summary: Hoffman’s report found unreported coordination between APA officials and psychologists within the Department of Defense during the years following 9/11; Hoffman concluded that in these years, many psychologists had practiced along loose ethical guidelines for the sake of protecting national security4. The prohibition against participation in national security interrogations does not apply to situations where detained persons are under the protection of the United States Constitution, or where domestic law enforcement interrogations are taking place. keywords: apa; interrogations; psychologists cache: bioethics01-6718.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6718.txt item: #329 of 430 id: bioethics01-6719 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6719 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1144 flesch: 20 summary: Reconciling Surrogacy Adversaries Through the Embryo Katarina Lee Keywords: autonomy, fertility, human embryos, informed consent, surrogacy, surrogacy laws INTRODUCTION Surrogacy is constantly in the news, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell,1 the recent conviction of an owner of an American surrogacy company,2 and the recent birth of Lucy Liu’s son via a gestational surrogate.3 Like many bioethical issues, surrogacy divides individuals into three distinct groups: (A) those who believe surrogacy is ethically permissible, (B) those who believe surrogacy is ethically impermissible, and (C) those who are apathetic—meaning they would not engage in surrogacy, but either have no opinion or hold the conviction that individuals should be able to make autonomous choices. • Surrogacy laws regulate the practice; therefore, there is minimal risk of exploitation.14 • Regarding altruistic surrogacy: other “donations” such as kidneys are permissible, so how is surrogacy any different? keywords: individuals; surrogacy cache: bioethics01-6719.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6719.txt item: #330 of 430 id: bioethics01-6720 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6720 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1471 flesch: 47 summary: ”7We must bring together research, advocacy and ethics communities in a quest to determine how best to not only respect and protect participants in research studies conducted within the standard of care, but also to define “reasonably foreseeable risks” in this setting.7 Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with aspects of the debates surrounding SUPPORT, this situation has created an optimistic opportunity to better understand scientific and ethical issues that must be addressed when designing future studies. Though it was originally thought that higher levels of oxygen would improve an infant’s outcome, studies in the 1950’s demonstrated increased cases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) (a condition often leading to blindness), with the administration of higher oxygen saturation. keywords: oxygen; research; study; support cache: bioethics01-6720.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6720.txt item: #331 of 430 id: bioethics01-6724 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6724 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1608 flesch: 49 summary: The statistics draw a clear conclusion: the amount of guns per capita is strongly correlated with the number of people who are murdered.6 Not only is our experience with gun violence abnormal but also the prevalence of mental illness in the U.S supersedes that of comparable countries. Interestingly, a recent Washington Post article alluded to strongly conservative politics in Western Oregon and a decline in employment in the local lumber industry as possible contextual influences.15 Gun control advocates and gun rights activists are increasingly communicating to the body politic that we must either oppose or support gun control based upon our opinions about these mass shootings. keywords: gun; health; illness; mass; shootings; violence cache: bioethics01-6724.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6724.txt item: #332 of 430 id: bioethics01-6725 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6725 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1537 flesch: 22 summary: 14 Elizabeth Church, Ontario government sets age limit at 43 for IVF coverage, Globe and Mail, (Oct. 1, 2015), http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontarios-liberal-government-to-fund-a-cycle-of-ivf-for- women/article26616360; Government of Quebec, Quebec Assisted Reproduction Program, http://sante.gouv.qc.ca/en/programmes-et-mesures-daide/programme-quebecois-de-procreation- assistee/fecondation-in-vitro/. 15 Id.; Rob Ferguson, Ontario to cover in-vitro fertilization treatments, The Star, (Oct. 1, 2015), http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2015/10/01/ohip-to-cover-in-vitro-fertization-treatments.html 16 Government of Manitoba, FAQ’s About the Fertility Treatment Tax Credit, http://www.gov.mb.ca/finance/tao/fttc_faq.html#question3. LEE, CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ART LAW, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. 1 (2014-15) 4 17 CBS News, “Appalling” law prevents IVF coverage for veterans, (June 5, 2015), http://www.cbsnews.com/news/law-prevents- ivf-coverage-military-veterans/; Resolve, The Affordable Care Act and Infertility, (Feb. 17, 2014), http://www.resolve.org/get- involved/the-center-for-infertility-justice/public-policy/the-affordable-care-act-and-infertility.html. keywords: american; coverage; fertility; government; law cache: bioethics01-6725.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6725.txt item: #333 of 430 id: bioethics01-6726 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6726 date: 2020-08-03 words: 795 flesch: 54 summary: The legal precedent to allow mental health clinicians to testify in the courtroom about the presence of mental illness is due to the 1962 U.S. Court of Appeals decision Jenkins v. U.S. We generally define mental illness as a condition which affects one’s psyche so intensely that it impairs function. keywords: health; illness cache: bioethics01-6726.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6726.txt item: #334 of 430 id: bioethics01-6727 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6727 date: 2020-08-03 words: 740 flesch: 59 summary: Spiritual Support on Skype for the Seriously Ill Randi Belisomo Keywords: end of life care, hospice, religion, Telechaplaincy INTRODUCTION Newly diagnosed and seriously ill patients who need spiritual support, but are unable to travel for it, can now access free counseling via Skype or phone from chaplains working with ChaplainsOnHand.org, ChaplainCareforVeterans.org and CantBelieveIHaveCancer.org. “People are isolated and alone so much of the time, and spiritual care is something that has often been dismissed and ignored,” said Rev. Amy Strano, HCCN’s Director of Programs and Services. keywords: care; health; support cache: bioethics01-6727.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6727.txt item: #335 of 430 id: bioethics01-6728 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6728 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1664 flesch: 40 summary: Indeed, Shuping began emulating the lifestyle practices of blind people as she matured—in her teenage years, she sported thick, black sunglasses and walked with a cane, and she was proficient in braille by age twenty. Examining Clinical Ethics: The Case of Jewel Shuping Matt Dias Keywords: amputation, autonomy, Body Integrity Identity Disorder, clinical ethics, Jewel Shuping, maiming INTRODUCTION keywords: biid; clinician; drain; shuping cache: bioethics01-6728.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6728.txt item: #336 of 430 id: bioethics01-6733 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6733 date: 2020-08-03 words: 939 flesch: 40 summary: The discontinuity also indicates that there is a delicate balance between the ability of self-regulation in the private sphere to promote scientific innovation and the oversight of government in its ability to properly allocate the products constructed from scientific progress. The current dispute over priority filing, scope of claim, and patent-eligibility of CRISPR/Cas9 technology3 will be a critical determination that will likely have adverse legal consequences for the relationship between patent application, litigation, and scientific innovation. keywords: court; innovation; patent cache: bioethics01-6733.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6733.txt item: #337 of 430 id: bioethics01-6734 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6734 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1307 flesch: 45 summary: ANALYSIS Self-tracking pills will no doubt improve the ability of medical professionals to monitor patients and their prescription use, an effort that has failed in recent history. Furthermore, invasion of privacy may discourage patients from being compliant in their medical care and may encourage distrust between a patient and medical professional. keywords: patient; pill; spector; tracking cache: bioethics01-6734.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6734.txt item: #338 of 430 id: bioethics01-6735 author: Microsoft Office User title: bioethics01-6735 date: 2020-08-03 words: 1597 flesch: 42 summary: Thus the precedent China has already set for animal genetic engineering opens the door to successful human engineering. Does the lack of hesitancy or caution towards using technology on animal life carry any implications on how human life is then viewed and treated in the lab? keywords: china; dogs; gene; technology cache: bioethics01-6735.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6735.txt item: #339 of 430 id: bioethics01-6765 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6765 date: 2020-07-23 words: 2382 flesch: 31 summary: Federal troops must obey “standing rules for the use of ZIMMERMAN, FEDERAL TROOPS IN THE PORTLAND, OREGON PROTESTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. When viewed in the context of federal government power, of deaths of black people from COVID-19, and from a historical perspective of ascriptive Americanism, a theory that the liberal calculus that fed American development and moral backdrop operated alongside racist policies, 19 the use of federal troops is a continuation of racist traditions. keywords: act; military; oregon; police; protests; troops; use cache: bioethics01-6765.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6765.txt item: #340 of 430 id: bioethics01-6881 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6881 date: 2020-08-04 words: 2526 flesch: 49 summary: More needs to be done to protect underage girls from suffering forced FGC in the immediate future. 6 (2020) 2 so closely tied to cultural identity, education about FGC, and the context of cultural female oppression may be more useful than laws in limiting the practice of nonconsensual FGC. keywords: cutting; education; fgc; hiv; legislation; women cache: bioethics01-6881.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6881.txt item: #341 of 430 id: bioethics01-6888 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6888 date: 2020-08-07 words: 1335 flesch: 51 summary: Teachers press students to recognize oppression and try to remedy oppression in their culture. Teachers press students to recognize oppression and try to remedy oppression in their culture.6 keywords: critical; new; pedagogy; students cache: bioethics01-6888.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6888.txt item: #342 of 430 id: bioethics01-6893 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6893 date: 2020-08-08 words: 2643 flesch: 42 summary: Victor Chidi Wolemonwu* Keywords: Human challenge trials, COVID-19, Vaccine ethics, Research ethics, Bioethics, Global poverty INTRODUCTION Safe and effective vaccines are yet to be developed and distributed for the treatment of the virus that causes COVID-19. Safe and effective vaccine development within the shortest possible time requires adopting a medical research strategy like human challenge trials. keywords: challenge; covid-19; participants; research; trials; vaccine cache: bioethics01-6893.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6893.txt item: #343 of 430 id: bioethics01-6952 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6952 date: 2020-08-31 words: 2001 flesch: 50 summary: In surveys, many healthcare providers have stated that they struggle to have end-of-life discussions with patients and family members.18 Adding palliative care training in medical school should further a future physician’s ability to devise treatment methods to serve the patients’ best interests. By reserving palliative care training for those pursuing it as a specialty, schools allow general medical students to graduate without the minimum level of competency necessary. keywords: care; end; life; palliative; patients cache: bioethics01-6952.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6952.txt item: #344 of 430 id: bioethics01-6961 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-6961 date: 2020-09-01 words: 3299 flesch: 27 summary: Many Uber drivers happen to have grit and the determination to seek loans, purchase cars and insurance, and sign on with Uber but those traits are not signs of entrepreneurial spirit as much as they are signs of doing tasks necessary to join the app- ZIMMERMAN, CALIFORNIA GIG ECONOMY LAW, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. Also, in 2015, several Uber drivers sued Uber demanding treatment as employees and not independent contractors. keywords: california; drivers; economy; gig; healthcare; insurance; law; uber; workers cache: bioethics01-6961.pdf plain text: bioethics01-6961.txt item: #345 of 430 id: bioethics01-7057 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7057 date: 2020-10-31 words: 2875 flesch: 38 summary: A lack of internet access made it difficult for low-income children to seamlessly transition to an online learning environment. The role of government must include a plan to provide computers and internet access to achieve education equity and level the playing field for students of all incomes. keywords: access; august; children; government; income; internet; school; students cache: bioethics01-7057.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7057.txt item: #346 of 430 id: bioethics01-7077 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7077 date: 2020-09-16 words: 1525 flesch: 38 summary: A deontological argument for voting concludes that accepting the duty of democratic participation is important because it would be immoral to abstain, yet expect others to uphold the democracy.8 To this end, American democracy has a history of deontological efforts to instill the duty of voting, from nonpartisan voter engagement campaigns to lobbying efforts for compulsory voting.9 Defining voting as a civic duty may also solve the rational choice conundrum that questions why people vote believing their vote may be insignificant.10 During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health efforts have sought to instill a duty to halt its spread through directives to stay home and avoid contact with others.11 This competing deontology may in some cases be mutually exclusive with that of democratic duties, and alternative frameworks can provide decisional clarity. The relationship between in-person voting, consolidated polling locations, and absentee voting on covid-19: evidence from the Wisconsin primary. keywords: democracy; duty; vote; voters; voting cache: bioethics01-7077.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7077.txt item: #347 of 430 id: bioethics01-7083 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7083 date: 2020-09-18 words: 2566 flesch: 36 summary: 11 Graham, Ronnie, “Facing the crisis in human resources for eye health in sub-Saharan Africa,” Community Eye Health, 30, no. 100 (2017): 85-87. 12 Graham, p. 87 13 Patel, Daksha et al., “Ophthalmic equipment survey 2010: Preliminary results,” Community Eye Health 23, no. 73 (September 2010): 22-25. 14 World Health Organization, 2019, p. 37 15 Ramke, Jacqueline et al., “Effective cataract surgical coverage: An indicator for measuring quality-of-care in the context of Universal Health Coverage,” PLOS One (March 1, 2017): e0172342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172342; Lewallen, S et al., “Cataract surgical coverage remains lower in women,” British Journal of Ophthalmology 93, no.3 (December 17, 2008): 295- 298. Moving Forward to Achieve Universal Eye Care Coverage Because most eye care delivery in low-income nations is offered at secondary or tertiary hospitals and is restricted to urban settings, providing incentives to rural eye practitioners and training locals to perform eye care is imperative.30 Enhanced training of primary health staff, training eye health professionals that are not ophthalmologists, and promotion of regular eye exams and eye safety could be effective.31 Countries should implement programs that destigmatize eyeglasses, improve health literacy, and integrate eyecare into primary care. keywords: care; eye; health; income; organization; vision; world cache: bioethics01-7083.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7083.txt item: #348 of 430 id: bioethics01-7094 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7094 date: 2020-09-23 words: 3599 flesch: 50 summary: Laws should not depend on their remedies leading to tax revenue even if the remedy and law were instituted under the power of Congress to tax. If the severability approach is to depend on legislative intent, justices will find many laws salvageable. keywords: aca; court; justices; law; mandate; severability; tax cache: bioethics01-7094.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7094.txt item: #349 of 430 id: bioethics01-7127 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7127 date: 2020-10-02 words: 1412 flesch: 42 summary: The ACOG recommends cautioning them and encouraging them to follow protocols to avoid COVID-19.12 The data so far indicates that pregnant women are at less risk of death from COVID-19 than they were from the H1N1 flu. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pregnant women are more likely to be hospitalized and taken to the ICU following a positive COVID-19 test, along with being at a higher risk for complications such as giving birth to a premature infant.13 While many women choose to continue pregnancies, pregnant women with preexisting health conditions may be more susceptible to complications if they were to catch the coronavirus or a similar viral infection.14 keywords: abortion; access; pandemic; women cache: bioethics01-7127.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7127.txt item: #350 of 430 id: bioethics01-7215 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7215 date: 2020-10-26 words: 1844 flesch: 54 summary: Policies, voting habits, and rhetoric that condemn the possible solutions as liberal or elitist cause the disconnect in infant mortality rates. A Closer look at infant mortality rates in two of the most impoverished U.S, region. keywords: appalachia; delta; health; infant; mortality; white cache: bioethics01-7215.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7215.txt item: #351 of 430 id: bioethics01-7223 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7223 date: 2020-10-27 words: 1945 flesch: 40 summary: The psychotherapeutic procedure is an emotive treatment that gives rape victims a sense of agency and control over negative thoughts or bad mental habits. E. How Cognitive Restructuring Can Help Both Victims and Assailants Rape victims can perform better and return to their normal state of mind with cognitive therapy. keywords: justice; nigeria; rape; restructuring; therapy; victims cache: bioethics01-7223.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7223.txt item: #352 of 430 id: bioethics01-7224 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7224 date: 2020-10-27 words: 1724 flesch: 39 summary: My patient was unrepresented – meaning she lacked the capacity to make her own medical decisions, had not previously expressed wishes about treatment, and did not have a decision-making surrogate.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the impact of structural inequities and social determinants on health outcomes.2 These disparities become especially significant among unrepresented patients, who are more likely to be people of color, homeless, socially isolated elderly, or those afflicted with mental illness. As a result, unrepresented patients are particularly vulnerable which raises numerous ethical considerations for clinicians and healthcare systems. keywords: care; covid-19; decisions; making; patients cache: bioethics01-7224.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7224.txt item: #353 of 430 id: bioethics01-7230 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7230 date: 2020-10-30 words: 1732 flesch: 39 summary: Given the competing interests of surgeons and device representatives, is it not ethically justifiable for representatives to be present in the operating room unless they can be untethered from the commission-based sales structure.2 The pharmaceutical industry’s questionable practices receive substantial media attention. Device representatives in hospitals: Are commercial imperatives driving clinical decision-making? keywords: device; industry; patients; representatives; surgeons cache: bioethics01-7230.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7230.txt item: #354 of 430 id: bioethics01-7273 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7273 date: 2020-11-18 words: 2297 flesch: 38 summary: The Academy and the FDA should also prohibit ophthalmologists from classifying LASIK surgeries “successful” based on achieving “20/20 or 20/40 or better vision” after surgery if a complication was reported.22 CONCLUSION Physicians must bar misleading advertisements and fully disclose the complications of LASIK surgery to patients. If an advertisement claims “90% of LASIK patients achieve 20/40 vision or better,”19 the ophthalmologist should corroborate the claim with a reliable clinical study and ensure his outcomes do not differ significantly from the study’s outcomes. keywords: advertising; lasik; ophthalmologists; patients; procedure; surgery cache: bioethics01-7273.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7273.txt item: #355 of 430 id: bioethics01-7289 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7289 date: 2020-11-29 words: 1826 flesch: 33 summary: Keywords: Research ethics, informed consent, inducement, psychology research, student research, IRB, university research INTRODUCTION Introductory psychology courses often have high enrollments and present department faculty and staff with a large pool of potential research subjects.1 At many institutions, professors make participation in department research a course requirement or offer extra credit as a participation incentive. Nevertheless, the unique faculty-student relationship raises important questions about the ethics of student participation in faculty or department research.4 ANALYSIS The primary issues are informed consent and voluntariness. keywords: participation; psychology; research; students cache: bioethics01-7289.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7289.txt item: #356 of 430 id: bioethics01-7295 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7295 date: 2020-12-06 words: 2238 flesch: 48 summary: Semantic problems and the downplayed role of mitochondrial DNA Because mitochondrial DNA donors donate an egg, they must undergo pre-donation screening and navigate the complicated donation and post-donation process. Mutations in this DNA can lead to a variety of diseases, some of which result in poor growth, fatigue, and other serious symptoms.2 In February 2016, the United Kingdom became the first country to legalize a technique to replace mutated mitochondrial DNA with unmutated DNA via mitochondrial DNA donors. keywords: child; dna; donation; donor; mothers; parent; rights cache: bioethics01-7295.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7295.txt item: #357 of 430 id: bioethics01-7301 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7301 date: 2020-12-07 words: 4330 flesch: 36 summary: The Court now includess several self- described staunch defenders of individual liberty and autonomy who may not give as much weight to public health measures that are seen to infringe upon fundamental freedoms.17 But even if the Court were to uphold the essence of Jacobson, the particulars of the case before it would determine whether compulsory COVID-19 vaccination could proceed. Only as a Policy of Last Resort Gyan Moorthy* Keywords: COVID-19, vaccination ethics, public health ethics, compulsory vaccination, least restrictive means, bioethics, liberty, COVID vaccination, democracy and bioethics, transparency INTRODUCTION keywords: compulsory; covid-19; goal; government; health; policy; public; state; universal; vaccination; vaccine cache: bioethics01-7301.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7301.txt item: #358 of 430 id: bioethics01-7321 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7321 date: 2020-12-12 words: 1626 flesch: 47 summary: As the United States navigates a social awakening, primary care providers (PCPs) need to join the movement by addressing the impact of racism on our society. PCPs need to consider how traditional treatment modalities, such as drug prescription and lifestyle modifications, may perpetuate systemic racism and inflict further injustice upon the health of Black Americans. keywords: care; health; patients; pcps; racism cache: bioethics01-7321.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7321.txt item: #359 of 430 id: bioethics01-7578 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7578 date: 2021-01-07 words: 2295 flesch: 44 summary: This paper argues that addressing education and wages, two of the social determinants of health, and pre-existing health conditions, would contribute to lowering the number of severe COVID-19 cases4 and improve health in the US, making fewer people vulnerable to the effects of diseases like COVID-19. B. Strucutral Inequities Systemic racism and structural problems that affect poor and marginalized communities in the US have made it harder for some Americans to receive high quality education, find jobs that pay well, live in middle to high income areas, access the financial system, and find reliable healthcare coverage. keywords: americans; covid-19; disparities; education; health; wages cache: bioethics01-7578.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7578.txt item: #360 of 430 id: bioethics01-7786 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7786 date: 2021-02-23 words: 2914 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: Purdue Pharma, OxyContin®, Bioethical Principles, Research Ethics, Misconduct INTRODUCTION The company’s success came at an extremely high cost: a death toll in the hundreds of thousands from opiate misuse.1 Purdue Pharma violated bioethical standards and laws written to protect consumers and the public. keywords: opioid; oxycontin; pain; pharma; purdue; research; study cache: bioethics01-7786.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7786.txt item: #361 of 430 id: bioethics01-7818 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7818 date: 2021-01-25 words: 2815 flesch: 44 summary: Even though human life is often characterized by stress, uncertainty, and vulnerability, the profound heights of the human condition justify life according to Mill’s philosophy. Dworkin’s framework of critical interests and Mill’s version of Utilitarian ethics support the moral authority of precedent autonomy by defending the narrative quality of life, the important pursuit of higher pleasures, and a dignified characterization of humanity. keywords: dworkin; interests; life; margo; personhood cache: bioethics01-7818.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7818.txt item: #362 of 430 id: bioethics01-7859 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7859 date: 2021-01-30 words: 4385 flesch: 51 summary: While most agree, organ donation is not an area where the medical community should allow or encourage someone’s life to be taken for the sake of saving another, post-death organ donation is an arena where some suggest necessity, or at least high demand, should shape policy, and provide a moral defense for ZIMMERMAN, THROUGH THE LENS OF NECESSITY: POST-DEATH ORGAN DONATION, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. Some may categorize organ donation as an area where there is a moral duty to act, while others may find it superfluous, an extra kindness beyond that which is morally required. keywords: consent; death; donation; necessity; opt; organ; organ donation; policy cache: bioethics01-7859.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7859.txt item: #363 of 430 id: bioethics01-7889 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7889 date: 2021-03-08 words: 2024 flesch: 35 summary: The government failed in its responsibility to protect tribal treaty rights, lands, assets, and resources, including healthcare and infrastructure development guarantees.22 Today, the Navajo Nation continues to encounter broken promises and attacks on their inherent sovereignty.23 Over 40 percent of Navajo Nation households do not have running water in their homes and must rely on hauling water to meet their daily needs. Many Native Americans, lacking immunity to European-borne pathogens, succumbed to diseases.16 Between 1781 and 1782, the smallpox mortality rate in the Native American population ranged from 50 percent to 90 percent.17 Later, during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 and 1919, Native Americans had mortality rates four times higher than those of the general population, many of whom lived in poverty.18 During the 1860s, Navajo people were extracted and placed in captivity by the US for several years before returning to their homelands, entering into treaties with the US Government through duress and false promises.19 Eventually, the settlers seized and established property rights from Native Americans through genocide, forced removal, and confinement on reservations supported by the US government.20 Testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on July 8, 2020, Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation, attributed the high per capita COVID-19 infection rate to the federal government’s breach of responsibility arising from treaties.21 keywords: access; covid-19; nation; native; navajo; water cache: bioethics01-7889.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7889.txt item: #364 of 430 id: bioethics01-7923 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7923 date: 2021-02-06 words: 3008 flesch: 47 summary: Unlike in Germany, where all Health Committee hearings feature testimony MOORTHY, PUTTING PATIENT CONCERNS ON THE POLICY AGENDA, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. 7 (2021) 4 from the same several Spitzenverbände (national associations of various interests) and all meetings and briefs are made accessible online, US legislation is deliberated in a haphazard, back-and-forth process that involves a lot of back-room dealing.10 That is, there is no single table at which American patient groups can sit to have far-reaching impact; they must establish themselves at multiple levels and learn to play a lobbying game that other interests have been playing a lot longer. Patient groups are also susceptible to industry influence. keywords: companies; concerns; groups; health; interests; lobby; medical; patient; policy cache: bioethics01-7923.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7923.txt item: #365 of 430 id: bioethics01-7949 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-7949 date: 2021-02-11 words: 1492 flesch: 57 summary: An important outcome of ethics consultation is the satisfaction of participants.5 Feeling like one belonged in the discussion and that one’s insights and comments matter promotes satisfaction and increases the chance that ethics consultation services are evaluated to be useful and likely to be sought again. I spend a lot of time learning about and addressing barriers to ethics consultations. keywords: consult; ethics; jordan cache: bioethics01-7949.pdf plain text: bioethics01-7949.txt item: #366 of 430 id: bioethics01-8002 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8002 date: 2021-04-08 words: 1588 flesch: 50 summary: The Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 7.2.2 2 recommends that researchers and peer reviewers should take the following steps to best handle such data: (a) Disclose that the data derived from studies do not meet contemporary standards for the ethical conduct of research. Arguments can be made against the use of such data on the grounds that using the data represents a further indignity to those who suffered such horrific conditions and persecution. keywords: data; good; research; use cache: bioethics01-8002.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8002.txt item: #367 of 430 id: bioethics01-8035 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8035 date: 2021-03-11 words: 2486 flesch: 35 summary: Overall, failure to include incarcerated people in ethically conducted research should not be the standard, as many health-related risks in this population are still unexplored.37 Compared to the non-incarcerated population, accessible enrollment of incarcerated people in research studies is not currently being facilitated. Limited Access to Research Involving Incarcerated Persons as a Result of Protectionism Oskar Neyra* ABSTRACT Overall, failure to include incarcerated people in ethically conducted research should not be the standard, as many health-related risks in this population are still unexplored. keywords: access; health; people; population; research cache: bioethics01-8035.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8035.txt item: #368 of 430 id: bioethics01-8037 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8037 date: 2021-03-12 words: 5358 flesch: 43 summary: The strong, causal relationship to a largescale goal should protect public health orders that are time sensitive and effective and should be evaluated under Jacobson’s test regardless of the type of right infringed. Some of the legal challenges to public health orders during the pandemic may reflect a lack of public trust in the public health officials advising government entities. keywords: court; emergencies; emergency; health; jacobson; orders; pandemic; power; public; rights; scrutiny; state cache: bioethics01-8037.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8037.txt item: #369 of 430 id: bioethics01-8124 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8124 date: 2021-04-14 words: 1864 flesch: 61 summary: CGTN Africa. 21 Higher income countries have had enough stock to vaccinate one fourth of their population, on average, while low income countries are limited to around 1 in 500.22 However, a headline in CBS News implies that the low vaccination rate in South Africa is due to a domestic class struggle between the rich and poor citizens,23 rather than an issue of vaccine nationalism. keywords: africa; bbc; covid-19; ebola; news; tia; world cache: bioethics01-8124.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8124.txt item: #370 of 430 id: bioethics01-8173 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8173 date: 2021-04-23 words: 2619 flesch: 48 summary: However, until advance directives govern without pregnancy exceptions, people will not uniformly retain the ability to formulate autonomous decisions about their health care planning. Most clinicians and patients think of advance directives as being only for the elderly or terminally ill. keywords: advance; care; clauses; directive; interest; patients; pregnancy cache: bioethics01-8173.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8173.txt item: #371 of 430 id: bioethics01-8187 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8187 date: 2021-04-25 words: 2325 flesch: 51 summary: Addressing Infertility with Uterine Transplant: An Ethical Analysis of Three Categories of Donors Elizaveta Garbuzova* Keywords: Organ donation, living donor, uterine transplant, deceased donor, infertility INTRODUCTION These donors could have had a hysterectomy, no pregnancies (having had a pregnancy makes the uterus more suitable for transplant), papillomavirus infection, or other conditions that would prevent them from being uterus donors. keywords: donor; living; risk; uterus; utx cache: bioethics01-8187.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8187.txt item: #372 of 430 id: bioethics01-8219 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8219 date: 2021-05-09 words: 1666 flesch: 47 summary: Before the adoption of machine perfusion becomes commonplace, UNOS should direct how to integrate machine perfusion into procurement networks best and shed the antiquated geographical confines that govern allocation today and compromise the ethical standards on which the field was founded. The answer is already here: machine perfusion. keywords: allocation; lung; machine; organ; perfusion; transplant cache: bioethics01-8219.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8219.txt item: #373 of 430 id: bioethics01-8352 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8352 date: 2021-05-18 words: 3711 flesch: 50 summary: The Question of Rights The language of rights is omnipresent in current discourse in law, bioethics, and many other disciplines. BUTCHART, ON THE STATUS OF RIGHTS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. 7 (2021) 2 Many philosophers have either argued for or implicitly included human rights in their theories of morality and legality. keywords: bioethics; constitution; court; law; nature; rights; state; status cache: bioethics01-8352.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8352.txt item: #374 of 430 id: bioethics01-8361 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8361 date: 2021-05-19 words: 2582 flesch: 45 summary: Recently, academics and public health officials have used intervention ladders as guides in framing policies, particularly COVID-19 pandemic policies.2 Analyzing the Indian COVID-19 vaccination drive under these two ladders can illuminate the concepts of liberty underlying those ladders and help determine the best framework on a philosophical basis. The intervention ladder assumes an inverse relationship between public health and freedom. keywords: autonomy; health; intervention; ladder; liberty; public cache: bioethics01-8361.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8361.txt item: #375 of 430 id: bioethics01-8365 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8365 date: 2021-05-21 words: 2248 flesch: 50 summary: Strongly Disincentivizing Procreation as a Hypothetical Climate Change Solution Jasper Doomen ABSTRACT The problem of climate change raises some important philosophical, existential questions. I propose a radical solution designed to provoke reflection on the role of humans in climate change. keywords: change; climate; people; procreation cache: bioethics01-8365.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8365.txt item: #376 of 430 id: bioethics01-8399 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8399 date: 2021-05-28 words: 1612 flesch: 40 summary: However, the success of precision psychiatry is contingent on modifying the healthcare infrastructure, which cannot currently provide equitable access to basic mental health care.9 For example, mental health disorders are the leading cause of lost productivity and disability, with the US incurring an economic cost of $42-53 billion per year.10 One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase insurance coverage for mental health care. If precision psychiatry is readily available to the masses and is used instead of trial and error, the willingness of people to seek mental health care may rise. keywords: care; health; precision; psychiatry; vol cache: bioethics01-8399.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8399.txt item: #377 of 430 id: bioethics01-8403 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8403 date: 2021-06-02 words: 2182 flesch: 50 summary: AI and machine learning technologies work by finding the underlying structure of brain data, whi ch is then described by patterns known as latent factors, eventually resulting in an understanding of the brain’s temporal dynamics.5 Through these technologies, researchers are able to decipher how the human brain computes its performances and thoughts. Governing brain data through laws may enhance the extent of patient privacy in the case where brain data is being used through AI technologies.6 A responsible approach to governing brain data would require a sophisticated legal structure. keywords: big; brain; data; patient; privacy cache: bioethics01-8403.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8403.txt item: #378 of 430 id: bioethics01-8487 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8487 date: 2021-06-16 words: 6751 flesch: 54 summary: We interviewed relevant stakeholders, including staff and research patients, to assess how they view the potential promises and risks of personalized genetic medicine, and whether they see the high expectations of PGM as challenging the traditional boundaries between research and care activities in the lab and clinic. In these examples, efficiency serves as the first principle to which everything else is to conform, such as ethical recruiting of research patients. keywords: cancer; care; interview; medicine; patient; pgm; research; saxén; staff; study; voices cache: bioethics01-8487.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8487.txt item: #379 of 430 id: bioethics01-8502 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8502 date: 2021-06-21 words: 3206 flesch: 44 summary: Keywords: Health inequity, health disparity, COVID-19, health equity, socioeconomic, marginalized INTRODUCTION COVID-19 disproportionately impacted communities of color and lower socioeconomic status, sparking political discussion about existing inequities in the US.1 BACKGROUND Three terms – health disparity, health inequities, and health equity – help frame the issue. keywords: care; communities; covid-19; disparities; distributive; health; healthcare; justice; medical cache: bioethics01-8502.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8502.txt item: #380 of 430 id: bioethics01-8522 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8522 date: 2021-07-12 words: 2076 flesch: 42 summary: Like most civil rights laws, Title VI discrimination may be alleged as disparate treatment (intentional) or disparate impact. The primary enforcement mechanism for Title VI healthcare claims is forcing compliance with the law through the threat of withdrawal of federal reimbursement. keywords: care; health; medical; rights; title cache: bioethics01-8522.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8522.txt item: #381 of 430 id: bioethics01-8526 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8526 date: 2021-07-28 words: 4023 flesch: 47 summary: But with COVID-19 older adults were an identified high-risk population because of their susceptibility to infection and severe illness. Social Isolation of Older Adults in Long Term Care as a Result of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Protecting the Individual or a Means to an End? keywords: adults; care; covid-19; health; isolation; restrictions; social; term; term care cache: bioethics01-8526.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8526.txt item: #382 of 430 id: bioethics01-8533 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8533 date: 2021-07-01 words: 3274 flesch: 48 summary: This means that El Paso children wait longer for their appointments and are often seen by tired and overworked providers. 4 Though El Paso did eventually vote to fund a children’s hospital, similarly situated communities may vote differently, and their children could suffer as a result, just as El Paso children suffered during the delay. keywords: care; children; community; hospital; moorthy; paso; state cache: bioethics01-8533.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8533.txt item: #383 of 430 id: bioethics01-8559 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8559 date: 2021-07-13 words: 3368 flesch: 39 summary: Retrieved April 08, 2021, from https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4146&context=cklawreview 27 Mohapatra, S. 28 Mohapatra, S. 29 Mohapatra, S. 30 Mohapatra, S. 31 Governor Cuomo announces new actions to expand access to FERTILITY coverage for same sex couples as part of 2021 Women's Agenda. Retrieved April 08, 2021, from https://www.dfs.ny.gov/apps_and_licensing/health_insurers/ivf_fertility_preservation_law_qa_guidance 33 Governor Cuomo announces new actions to expand access to FERTILITY coverage for same sex couples as part of 2021 Women's Agenda. keywords: april; couples; family; infertility; reproductive; rights; sex; states cache: bioethics01-8559.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8559.txt item: #384 of 430 id: bioethics01-8586 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8586 date: 2021-07-27 words: 4043 flesch: 54 summary: Although doctor strikes do not seem to increase patient mortality, they can disrupt delivery of healthcare.32 Disruptions in delivery of service from prolonged strikes can result in decline of in-patient admissions and outpatient service utilization, as suggested during strikes in the UK in 2016.33 When emergency services were affected during the last strike in April, regular service was also significantly affected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the healthcare system remains stretched, the potential adverse effects resulting from doctor strikes remain uncertain and potentially disruptive. keywords: contract; covid-19; doctors; doi; health; malaysia; medical; pandemic; strike; vol cache: bioethics01-8586.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8586.txt item: #385 of 430 id: bioethics01-8590 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8590 date: 2021-08-23 words: 3484 flesch: 49 summary: [student author #4] “It helped me process some thoughts and emotions that were bothering me subconsciously. [student author #6] Others focused on the value of having an audience for their experience. keywords: author; company; crossroads; medical; stories; student; theater cache: bioethics01-8590.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8590.txt item: #386 of 430 id: bioethics01-8591 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8591 date: 2021-08-01 words: 3228 flesch: 50 summary: For psychiatric patients who wish to end their lives, this establishes a threshold above which suffering becomes “unbearable,” opening the door for a legitimate conversation about MAiD between patient and physician (should the patient request it). The Right to Choose: The Psychiatric Patient and Medical Aid-in-Dying Laila Knio* ABSTRACT With the increasing legalization of MAiD across the world, the question of whether psychiatric patients with refractory mental illness should have access to this health service is a topic of ethical debate. keywords: illness; maid; patient; suffering; treatment; vol cache: bioethics01-8591.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8591.txt item: #387 of 430 id: bioethics01-8594 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8594 date: 2021-08-03 words: 2982 flesch: 55 summary: 9 Kim S. The Ethics of Informed Consent in Alzheimer Disease Research. Keywords: Autonomy, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cognitive Function, Decisional Capacity, Advanced Directives INTRODUCTION At present, there is no effective treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s disease’s cognitive decline and ensuing dementia. keywords: advance; alzheimer; directives; disease; legacy; person; research cache: bioethics01-8594.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8594.txt item: #388 of 430 id: bioethics01-8595 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8595 date: 2021-08-04 words: 1658 flesch: 34 summary: The FDA approved the first cell and gene therapy in 2017.2 The FDA is continually approving more CRISPR clinical trials, including therapies to treat sickle cell anemia, cancer, and HIV.3 Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the broad potential applications of CRISPR have extended beyond gene editing. 7 Fathema Uddin, Charles M. Rudin, and Triparna Sen, “CRISPR Gene Therapy: Applications, Limitations, and Implications for the Future,” Frontiers in Oncology 10 (August 7, 2020): 1387, doi:10.3389/fonc.2020.01387. keywords: crispr; editing; gene; genome; perceptions; public cache: bioethics01-8595.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8595.txt item: #389 of 430 id: bioethics01-8600 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8600 date: 2021-08-07 words: 4416 flesch: 49 summary: However, public health ethics and even the intervention ladder view public health through a presumptive or a moderate liberal lens.4 Another public concern is that public health institutions have alienated themselves from society in general.32A dialogue between the stakeholders would remedy such a notion and help redefine public health according to how Dawson and Verweij view “public”– as a social entity/target as well as a mode of intervention (requiring collective action).33 Contractualism, like the rest of the ethical frameworks, has its own set of critiques. keywords: approach; bioethics; contractualism; health; liberty; pandemic; policy; public cache: bioethics01-8600.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8600.txt item: #390 of 430 id: bioethics01-8615 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8615 date: 2021-09-27 words: 3764 flesch: 34 summary: Protecting Autonomy of Rohingya Women in Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions Haaris Siddiqi* ABSTRACT Rohingya women face challenges that ought to be acknowledged and addressed to ensure that when they seek health care, they can act autonomously and decide freely among available options. Second, policy decisions ought to ensure post-treatment comprehensive care to shield Rohingya women from retribution by male community members. keywords: autonomy; care; determination; health; healthcare; male; rohingya; rohingya women; self; treatment; women cache: bioethics01-8615.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8615.txt item: #391 of 430 id: bioethics01-8662 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8662 date: 2021-09-01 words: 1771 flesch: 35 summary: In addition to past patient research, institutions use both public and private resources to train the physicians who treat patient X and to build hospitals where patient X seeks treatment While the argument I promote is likely not strong enough to compel participation in risky clinical trials, and it does not negate a moral right to refuse, it promotes participation in scientific research as a moral good, and sometimes, an obligation. I suggest that modified informed consent and the introduction of data misuse liability could improve accountability to the patient while still allowing societal health benefits associated with data sharing for research and education. keywords: data; mayo; mri; patient; research cache: bioethics01-8662.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8662.txt item: #392 of 430 id: bioethics01-8663 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8663 date: 2021-09-01 words: 2292 flesch: 46 summary: Those who choose to end pregnancies have often sought abortion care outside of Malta, traveling abroad at great personal cost. The coronavirus placed additional stress on those seeking abortion care when infection control measures were implemented.3 As Malta is an island, travel outside of the country requires travel by boat or plane, both prohibited as part of government-imposed infection control measures. keywords: abortion; access; care; malta; women cache: bioethics01-8663.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8663.txt item: #393 of 430 id: bioethics01-8678 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8678 date: 2021-10-09 words: 2034 flesch: 15 summary: In January 2001, both President Clinton and President G. W. Bush invoked DPA powers to ensure that emergency supplies of electrical power and natural gas continued SMITH, APPLYING THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TO PHARMACEUTICALS, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. Operation Warp Speed, used the DPA to direct the immediate reallocation of Catalent’s manufacturing slots to Moderna.9 The abrupt disruption of Tepezza production had a “dramatic effect” on patients.10 Tepezza is the only FDA-approved medication to treat adults with Thyroid Eye Disease (TED), also known as Graves’ Ophthalmopathy, a rare autoimmune condition wherein the muscles and fatty tissues behind the eye become inflamed, causing the eyes to push forward and bulge outward. keywords: act; defense; dpa; pharmaceutical; production; tepezza cache: bioethics01-8678.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8678.txt item: #394 of 430 id: bioethics01-8696 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8696 date: 2021-09-16 words: 3260 flesch: 51 summary: CONCLUSION Evidence is growing that animals of all sorts, including fish and certain invertebrates, feel pain in ways that people are increasingly inclined to respect, though still, climate science is more developed and often inspires more public passion than animal rights do. This is not commercially viable in a competitive industry like animal agriculture; thus, there is very little incentive for CAFOs to treat animals well. keywords: agriculture; animal; cafos; cockshaw; distribution; factory; farming; food; percent; rights cache: bioethics01-8696.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8696.txt item: #395 of 430 id: bioethics01-8700 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8700 date: 2021-09-20 words: 3667 flesch: 46 summary: As public health research lacks funding, corporations fill a funding gap by allocating money to non- governmental organizations and non-profits.1 However, the financial involvement of private corporations in public health research raises questions about conflicts of interest and research integrity.2 Conflicts of interest must be a consideration in the philosophical framework that public health institutions ought to adopt. keywords: conflicts; corporations; disclosure; ethics; health; interest; model; research; responsibility cache: bioethics01-8700.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8700.txt item: #396 of 430 id: bioethics01-8717 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8717 date: 2021-09-27 words: 3544 flesch: 61 summary: One study estimated that 231,000 women are currently incarcerated in the US,2 80 percent of whom are mothers, and 150,000 pregnant.3 Another recent study of 1,396 incarcerated pregnant women found that 92 percent had live births, 6.5 percent had stillbirths or miscarriages, and 4 percent terminated the pregnancy. That is roughly $5.7 thousand per prisoner, according to an NIH study done in 2015.10 There should be an adequate amount of funding for the health needs of incarcerated pregnant women. keywords: babies; care; children; nursery; pregnancy; pregnant; prison; programs; women cache: bioethics01-8717.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8717.txt item: #397 of 430 id: bioethics01-8789 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8789 date: 2021-10-18 words: 3841 flesch: 47 summary: Currently, many healthcare workers are worried about vaccine mandates. The narratives explore each author’s engagement with different communities experiencing vaccine hesitancy, touching on reasons for hesitancy, proposed solutions, and legal aspects. keywords: bioethics; community; covid-19; healthcare; hesitancy; hoffman; medical; people; vaccination; vaccine; workers cache: bioethics01-8789.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8789.txt item: #398 of 430 id: bioethics01-8810 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8810 date: 2022-02-01 words: 5257 flesch: 48 summary: The Role and Nature of Bioethics Research The misunderstanding of healthcare values as preferences has resulted in a research methodology that too often calculates parental healthcare values through a numerical lens of efficiency and patient satisfaction. This paper argues that healthcare practitioners have failed to appreciate the weight and negative effects of actions violating parental healthcare values. keywords: bioethics; decision; disregard; experience; family; healthcare; healthcare values; medical; parents; research; trauma; values; zimmerman cache: bioethics01-8810.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8810.txt item: #399 of 430 id: bioethics01-8814 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8814 date: 2021-11-02 words: 2441 flesch: 48 summary: Religious Exemptions: Application of Employment Division v. Smith to COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates Anne Zimmerman* Keywords: vaccine mandate, religious exemption, free exercise, strict scrutiny, bioethics INTRODUCTION The Current Supreme Court and Laws Outside of Smith The current and recent cases indicate that some justices on the Supreme Court assert that the caselaw supports religious exemptions to a broad array of laws. keywords: exemptions; gorsuch; laws; scrutiny; smith cache: bioethics01-8814.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8814.txt item: #400 of 430 id: bioethics01-8815 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8815 date: 2022-01-08 words: 2878 flesch: 36 summary: Amending Federal Regulations to Counteract Language Barriers in the Informed Consent Process Suzanne Mistretta ABSTRACT As English is the predominant language of research protocols in the United States, non -English speaking subjects face language barriers during clinical trial enrollment. As English is the predominant language of research protocols in the United States, non-English speaking subjects face language barriers during clinical trial enrollment. keywords: consent; english; language; non; regulations; research cache: bioethics01-8815.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8815.txt item: #401 of 430 id: bioethics01-8854 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8854 date: 2021-11-10 words: 1967 flesch: 41 summary: The history of biomedical research in the United States is both inspiring and haunting. Henrietta Lacks, whose tissue was used without her consent to generate HeLa cells, and the Tuskegee study research subjects, who were denied an existing treatment for syphilis, exemplify how biomedical research in the US has been a vector for exploiting minority groups in exchange for knowledge creation. keywords: algorithms; biomedical; databases; research cache: bioethics01-8854.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8854.txt item: #402 of 430 id: bioethics01-8917 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8917 date: 2022-01-13 words: 1718 flesch: 42 summary: 8 (2022) 3 the diagram, showing that structural racism and power were the root causes of racial health disparities, and 2) alleviate discomfort and shame when discussing race and racism. A majority rated themselves as better understanding structural racism and feeling better equipped to handle racism in teaching. keywords: bioethics; health; medical; race; racism cache: bioethics01-8917.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8917.txt item: #403 of 430 id: bioethics01-8924 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8924 date: 2021-12-12 words: 1868 flesch: 40 summary: CONCLUSION Currently, most universities and IRBs have guidelines for research involving student subjects and there are various federal and state regulations protecting research subjects.9,Yet students remain susceptible to a host of ethical issues, including undue influence, lack of justice, and the sense they would be penalized for opting out. Additionally, critics may contend that research involving student subjects rarely poses major risks that call beneficence into question. keywords: credit; psychology; research; student; subjects cache: bioethics01-8924.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8924.txt item: #404 of 430 id: bioethics01-8940 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8940 date: 2022-09-27 words: 3012 flesch: 42 summary: Unfortunately, its incentive structure has also led to a rise in research misconduct. Thus, it is up to every scientist to respect and follow ethical rules, while responsible organizations, 23 regulatory bodies, and scientific journals should make every effort to prevent research misconduct. 1 World Bank. keywords: articles; data; fraud; misconduct; publication; research; researchers; results cache: bioethics01-8940.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8940.txt item: #405 of 430 id: bioethics01-8945 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-8945 date: 2021-12-16 words: 1700 flesch: 46 summary: The Pitfalls of the Ethical Continuum and its Application to Medical Aid in Dying Shimon M. Glick* Keywords: Religion, Bioethics, Medical Aid in Dying, Moral Philosophy, Beliefs, Euthanasia, Continuum INTRODUCTION Religion has long provided guidance that has led to standards reflected in some aspects of medical practices and traditions. The bioethics discourse on medical aid in dying emphasizes similarity over previously recognized important distinguishing features. keywords: aid; continuum; dying; life cache: bioethics01-8945.pdf plain text: bioethics01-8945.txt item: #406 of 430 id: bioethics01-9027 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9027 date: 2022-01-11 words: 4163 flesch: 61 summary: Abortion doulas can enhance patient autonomy, improve the quality of medical care, help women talk through their emotions or the associated stigma, and provide other benefits that can address the problems surrounding abortion. In this paper, I propose that the use of abortion doulas may help address some of the problems surrounding abortion by mitigating factual inaccuracies, stigma, and barriers to quality care. keywords: abortion; care; doulas; patient; print; procedure; women cache: bioethics01-9027.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9027.txt item: #407 of 430 id: bioethics01-9075 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9075 date: 2022-02-15 words: 3160 flesch: 42 summary: In response to the increasing evidence of structural inequities during the pandemic, physicians and bioethicists Douglas White and Bernard Lo proposed incorporating a correction factor into resource allocation protocols. Thus, further actions are needed to dismantle structural inequities, such as implementing load balancing or the planned sharing of resources among healthcare systems. keywords: allocation; care; correction; covid-19; factor; health; inequities; triage cache: bioethics01-9075.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9075.txt item: #408 of 430 id: bioethics01-9166 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9166 date: 2022-03-02 words: 3328 flesch: 49 summary: Perhaps, none of these fields has been as widely advertised and expanded as telemental health. Thus, the point of this paper will be to examine whether the rapidly expanding system of telemental health is ethical based on its adherence to accepted standards of care, privacy concerns, and concerns about the boundaries of the patient-provider relationship. keywords: american; care; concerns; group; health; patients; person; privacy; providers; psychiatric cache: bioethics01-9166.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9166.txt item: #409 of 430 id: bioethics01-9327 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9327 date: 2022-07-20 words: 1611 flesch: 33 summary: Emergency contraception is formally recognized as the only effective way to prevent pregnancy after sexual intercourse by the World Health Organization.1 The word emergency is used due to the brief time during which it is efficacious. It is useful only when administered within 72 hours of a sexual encounter.2 When pharmacists withhold emergency contraception, they permanently eliminate the only window of opportunity in which the emergency contraception can take effect. keywords: contraception; covid-19; emergency; health; objection; pharmacists cache: bioethics01-9327.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9327.txt item: #410 of 430 id: bioethics01-9348 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9348 date: 2022-02-27 words: 2713 flesch: 49 summary: Despite the ethical dilemmas, utilitarianism is the best approach to animal research. The ethical implications of animal use reach a pinnacle when the previous example uses a monkey. keywords: animals; ethics; human; nhps; research; use cache: bioethics01-9348.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9348.txt item: #411 of 430 id: bioethics01-9426 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9426 date: 2022-03-17 words: 3423 flesch: 50 summary: “WHO issues new recommendations on human genome editing for the advancement of public health,” News release, 12 July 2021, www.who.int/news/item/12-07-2021-who-issues-new-recommendations-on-human- genome-editing-for-the-advancement-of-public-health. “WHO issues new recommendations on human genome editing for the advancement of public health,” News Release, July 12, 2021, www.who.int/news/item/12-07-2021-who-issues-new-recommendations-on-human- genome-editing-for-the-advancement-of-public-health. keywords: debate; editing; genome; greely; hhge; scientists; society cache: bioethics01-9426.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9426.txt item: #412 of 430 id: bioethics01-9445 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9445 date: 2022-08-02 words: 3230 flesch: 49 summary: I. Response in China and Korea After its initial discovery in December 2019, COVID-19 rapidly spread beyond China to surrounding countries, including South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. ”6 Teams of psychologists were also assigned to each hospital to provide counseling for patients.7 Beyond separating those who were infected from the rest of the population and thus having more control over the community spread of the virus, Fangcang hospitals played a vital role in reducing patient density in traditional hospitals and medical centers by expanding treatment capacities.8 South Korea reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, and, within days, the government activated the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters. keywords: china; covid-19; government; response; south cache: bioethics01-9445.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9445.txt item: #413 of 430 id: bioethics01-9452 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9452 date: 2022-05-13 words: 1585 flesch: 55 summary: 8 (2022) 2 19 response in India exemplified effective enforcement. “Manufactured Maladies: Lives and Livelihoods of Migrant Workers during COVID-19 Lockdown in India.” keywords: country; covid-19; india; response cache: bioethics01-9452.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9452.txt item: #414 of 430 id: bioethics01-9467 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9467 date: 2022-04-03 words: 4954 flesch: 31 summary: Polygenic embryo screening uses polygenic risk scores to assess an embryo’s statistical risks of developing diseases (e.g., cardiovascular diseases) and potentially traits (e.g., intelligence, athletic ability, among others) and is performed in an IVF setting. We conducted searches on google news using keywords such as “polygenic embryo screening,” “polygenic risk scores,” “baby Aurea,” and “embryo selection” and selected blogs and articles from major news sources (e.g., Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Guardian, The Times, etc.). keywords: articles; bioethics; child; concerns; embryo; media; percent; pes; screening; use cache: bioethics01-9467.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9467.txt item: #415 of 430 id: bioethics01-9473 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9473 date: 2022-05-28 words: 1894 flesch: 48 summary: With the expansion of the law to include non-terminal illnesses, Canadian physicians can act compassionately in the patient's best interest. Already, extensive assessments, medical opinions, and waiting periods are required for those with non-terminal illnesses seeking MAID. keywords: canada; individuals; maid; non cache: bioethics01-9473.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9473.txt item: #416 of 430 id: bioethics01-9485 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9485 date: 2022-04-20 words: 2558 flesch: 44 summary: Komesaroff argues that the task of handling clinical ethics consults is only one that clinicians can handle, and there is a need to separate bioethics from clinical ethics. ― Werner Heisenberg Keywords: Bioethicists, Clinical Ethics, Ethics Consults, Authoritarian, Expert, Moral Philosophy INTRODUCTION Bioethicists have long debated the question of expertise in clinical ethics and who gets a say in bedside clinical ethics consults.1 keywords: bioethics; clinicians; ethics; expertise; medical; patient cache: bioethics01-9485.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9485.txt item: #417 of 430 id: bioethics01-9490 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9490 date: 2022-07-05 words: 1344 flesch: 40 summary: In the US alone, there are an estimated 20 million mice, fish, birds, and invertebrates used for animal research each year that are not regulated by the Animal Welfare Act. During one of my Animal Ethics classes as a graduate student, our cohort visited an animal research facility to help inform our opinions on animal research. keywords: animal; cruelty; protections; research cache: bioethics01-9490.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9490.txt item: #418 of 430 id: bioethics01-9501 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9501 date: 2022-09-10 words: 1869 flesch: 40 summary: Forced Sterilization: Cases from Namibia Fiona Griffin* Keywords: Global Ethics, Forced Sterilization, Coercion, Namibia, Informed Consent, Human Rights INTRODUCTION Forced sterilization of women around the globe is a human rights violation and bioethical concern. Forced sterilization is any sterilization that takes place without a patient’s informed consent. keywords: consent; hiv; rights; sterilization; women cache: bioethics01-9501.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9501.txt item: #419 of 430 id: bioethics01-9509 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9509 date: 2022-05-04 words: 4988 flesch: 35 summary: This resistance can then be transferred to the humans who consume it, conferring resistance upon otherwise benign bacteria in their digestive systems.26 Resistant bacteria and genes contained in animal waste can also enter the environment as pollutants, settling in the ground, air, and water systems.27 This further increases the transmissibility of antibiotic resistance from animals to humans and, ultimately, from human to human when a person acquires an antibiotic resistant infection from food and/or the environment and passes it along to others.28 Another unintended adverse consequence of antibiotic use in animals is that foods like meat, milk, and eggs often contain antibiotic residues.29 Since up to 90 percent of antibiotics are excreted through an animal’s waste, the drugs may also pollute the ground and groundwater.30 Unnecessarily prolonged exposure to antibiotics increases the risk of acquiring bacterial resistance and/or an antibiotic resistant infection. The need for antibiotic use for disease prevention arises when animals’ living quarters are cramped and prone to disease.20 Low concentrations of antibiotics have routinely been observed in the gastrointestinal tracts of livestock.21 The presence of sub-therapeutic levels of these drugs fosters the growth of resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in the animals’ guts.22 keywords: animals; antibiotic; bacteria; bioethics; ethical; health; new; pandemic; resistance; use cache: bioethics01-9509.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9509.txt item: #420 of 430 id: bioethics01-9616 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9616 date: 2022-06-22 words: 1963 flesch: 48 summary: At a time when vaccination rates were already high and Omicron hospitalization rates were falling, the decision to relax mask mandates was the right call. As such, it is worth revisiting the controversial science behind mask mandates. keywords: face; health; mandates; mask; public; use cache: bioethics01-9616.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9616.txt item: #421 of 430 id: bioethics01-9639 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9639 date: 2022-07-08 words: 2922 flesch: 49 summary: Compelling Methodological Reasoning Finally, the FDA authorizes placebo use in cases where for compelling scientifically sound methodological reasons, the use of placebo is necessary to determine the efficacy or safety of an intervention, and the parties who receive placebo or no treatment will not be subject to any risk of serious or irreversible harm. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.11011-6; Ibrahim MS, Ovosi JO, Bello-Ovosi BO. Randomized controlled trials: Ethical and scientific issues in the choice of placebo or active control. keywords: fda; intervention; placebo; research; trials; use cache: bioethics01-9639.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9639.txt item: #422 of 430 id: bioethics01-9677 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9677 date: 2022-06-10 words: 1848 flesch: 42 summary: Bioethicist John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University advocates for a registry of conflicts of interest involving the food industry and suggests that nutrition researchers disclose their activist work and dietary preferences, if relevant to their particular research.1 These changes to the ethical standards of nutrition research are necessary in today’s fast-paced internet world. Nutrition researchers must often rely on observational studies, which only show a correlation between nutrition intake and outcome, not cause and effect.4 keywords: diet; nutrition; research; researchers; studies cache: bioethics01-9677.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9677.txt item: #423 of 430 id: bioethics01-9679 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9679 date: 2022-05-20 words: 1785 flesch: 59 summary: 10 Even with reductions in annual fees over the last two decades, DPC practices often charge between $500 and $1,499 per year, and this does not include the cost of hospitalization or the cost of insurance that patients choose – or may be required – to buy for coverage of services their DPC doctor does not offer.11 Notably, DPC practice covers some of the same services that patients can get through insurance, but it does not supplant the need or requirement for overall insurance. Instead of fitting appointment times to the physician’s schedule, DPC patients have the additional freedom to choose visits convenient to them and aligned with the urgency of their medical issues. keywords: autonomy; care; dpc; patient cache: bioethics01-9679.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9679.txt item: #424 of 430 id: bioethics01-9680 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9680 date: 2022-06-10 words: 4401 flesch: 52 summary: Climate migration falls in between—it requires helping strangers, yet it may move forward without anyone seeing themselves as uniquely positioned to help until HOFFMAN ET AL., EXPANDING THE DUTY TO RESCUE TO CLIMATE MIGRATION, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. HOFFMAN ET AL., EXPANDING THE DUTY TO RESCUE TO CLIMATE MIGRATION, VOICES IN BIOETHICS, VOL. keywords: change; climate; climate migration; duty; help; migration; need; people; rescue cache: bioethics01-9680.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9680.txt item: #425 of 430 id: bioethics01-9685 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9685 date: 2022-07-07 words: 2624 flesch: 44 summary: If healthcare resources ought to be distributed to maximize health utility for the highest number of patients, futility judgments for prolonged disorders of consciousness patients are justified. Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness William Choi* ABSTRACT Medical futility judgments for patients in prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) frequently lead to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (LST), which is the leading cause of death for patients with traumatic brain injuries. keywords: consciousness; disorders; futility; life; patients; treatment cache: bioethics01-9685.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9685.txt item: #426 of 430 id: bioethics01-9894 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9894 date: 2022-06-15 words: 3838 flesch: 49 summary: While medical tourism has great economic benefits to the host country and calls for the increase of professionalism and skill of physicians, it also influences doctors locating to private hospitals and skewing healthcare costs and access for locals. Further, it will outline why tourists choose Turkey as a medical tourism destination, the reasons to favor medical tourism, and the reasons to oppose it. keywords: destination; health; healthcare; tourism; tourism destination; tourists; turkey cache: bioethics01-9894.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9894.txt item: #427 of 430 id: bioethics01-9903 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9903 date: 2022-08-05 words: 3828 flesch: 49 summary: Traditional bioethical teaching may seem disconnected from the experiences of diverse students and their communities. While one of our goals in creating this course was to inspire diverse students to pursue bioethics, we recognized that most students will not. keywords: bioethics; class; communities; course; diversity; georgia; issues; students; survey cache: bioethics01-9903.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9903.txt item: #428 of 430 id: bioethics01-9958 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9958 date: 2022-07-22 words: 2584 flesch: 52 summary: Humanizing the Physician-Patient Relationship: How Gift-Giving and -Receiving Can Be Ethical Gyan Moorthy* Keywords: Gift-Giving, Autonomy, Benefit, Physician-Patient Relationship, Personal, Value, Culture INTRODUCTION Gift-giving by patients or their families to physicians has happened since there were patients and physicians, and in many places, it’s still quite common. It is my belief a consensus could quickly be formed about which types of gifts would clearly be wrong to accept. keywords: gifts; giving; medical; moorthy; patient; physician; relationship cache: bioethics01-9958.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9958.txt item: #429 of 430 id: bioethics01-9966 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9966 date: 2022-09-26 words: 2793 flesch: 48 summary: This reflects a faulty conception of philosophy that plagues much of bioethics, wherein the only contribution of philosophy pertinent to bioethics is moral philosophy elucidated by European thinkers in the Enlightenment Era. The landscape of moral philosophy has evolved significantly from the 18th century. keywords: bioethics; farmer; philosophy; place; shadow; thinking cache: bioethics01-9966.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9966.txt item: #430 of 430 id: bioethics01-9991 author: Anne Zimmerman title: bioethics01-9991 date: 2022-09-17 words: 4259 flesch: 39 summary: Although the transition from contingency standards to crisis standards is defined by the inability to provide functionally equivalent care, the difference in practice may merely be a distinction between visible, immediate sacrifices to patient well-being during crises and less-obvious, long-term decrements in community health due to protracted contingency care alterations. To mitigate these ethical issues, I offer recommendations for reimagining resource allocation during contingency standards of care. keywords: allocation; care; contingency; contingency standards; crisis; crisis standards; health; measures; patient; resources; standards cache: bioethics01-9991.pdf plain text: bioethics01-9991.txt