Bioethics: Journal Articles On-Line

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• Canadian Medical Association Journal:
  Bioethics for Clinicians
  Series edited by Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Medicine and Public Issues
  Assisted Suicide University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics Assisted Suicide Consensus Panel (multiple articles)
• Archives of Internal Medicine:
  Lying for Patients: Physician Deception of Third-Party Payers
  October 25, 1999. 159:2263-2270
  Victor G. Freeman, MD; Saif S. Rathore; Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD; Kevin A. Schulman, MD
• JAMA:
  Tube Feeding in Patients With Advanced Dementia: A Review of the Evidence
  October 13,1999. 282(14):1365-1370
  Thomas E. Finucane, MD; Colleen Christmas, MD; Kathy Travis, MD
• JAMA:
  Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care: Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
  March 10, 1999. 281(10):937-941
  Council on Ethical and Judician Affairs, American Medical Association
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  A Consensus-Based Approach To Providing Palliative Care to Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
  May 18, 1999. 130:835-840.
  Jason H.T. Karlawish, MD; Timothy Quill, MD; and Diane E. Meier, MD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  A Consensus-Based Approach To Providing Palliative Care to Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
  May 18, 1999. 130:835-840.
  Jason H.T. Karlawish, MD; Timothy Quill,
• Archives of Internal Medicine:
  Derivation of a Clinical Decision Rule for the Discontinuation of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitations
  January 25, 1999. 159:129-134
  Carl van Walraven, MD, FRCPC, MSc; Alan J. Forster, MD, FRCPC; Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc, FRCPC
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  The Accuracy of Substituted Judgments in Patients with Terminal Diagnoses
  April 15, 1998. 128:621-629.
  Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD; Peter B. Terry, MD, MA; Carol S. Weisman, PhD; Deborah J. Miller, RN, PhD; Rebecca Y. Stallings, MHS; Margaret A. Vettese, RN, PhD; and Karen B. Haller, RN, PhD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Medicine and Public Issues
  The Debate over Physician-Assisted Suicide: Empirical Data and Convergent Views
  April 1, 1998. 128:552-558.
  Timothy E. Quill, MD; Diane E. Meier, MD; Susan D. Block, MD; and J. Andrew Billings, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Perspectives
  Voluntary Death: A Comparison of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide
  April 1, 1998. 128:559-562.
  Franklin G. Miller, PhD, and Diane E. Meier, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Editorial
  Care of the Dying: Clinical and Financial Lessons from the Oregon Experience
  April 1, 1998;128:567-568.
  Susan W. Tolle, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Editorial
  Doctors and Ethics, Morals and Manuals
  April 1, 1998;128:569-571.
  Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD; Arthur Caplan, PhD; Susan Dorr Goold, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Position Paper
  Ethics Manual; Fourth Edition
  April 1, 1998;128:576-594.
  American College of Physicians
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Medicine and Public Issues
  Ethical Practice in Managed Care: A Dose of Realism
  March 1, 1998. 128:395-402.
  Mark A. Hall, JD, and Robert A. Berenson, MD
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  The Slow Code -- Should Anyone Rush to Its Defense?
  February 12, 1998 -- Volume 338, Number 7
  Gail Gazelle, M.D.
• Archives of Internal Medicine: Original Investigation
  Sexual Ethics; Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status to Partners
  February 9, 1998 -- 1998;158:253-257
  Michael D. Stein, MD; Kenneth A. Freedberg, MD, MSc; Lisa M. Sullivan, PhD; Jacqueline Savetsky, MPH; Suzette M. Levenson, MPH; Ralph Hingson, ScD; Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  The Rule of Double Effect -- A Critique of Its Role in End-of-Life Decision Making
  December 11, 1997 -- Volume 337, Number 24
  Timothy E. Quill, M.D., Rebecca Dresser, J.D., Dan W. Brock, Ph.D.
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  The Supreme Court Speaks -- Not Assisted Suicide but a Constitutional Right to Palliative Care
  October 23, 1997 -- Volume 337, Number 17
  Robert A. Burt, J.D.
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Rejecting Assisted Suicide but Embracing Euthanasia
  October 23, 1997 -- Volume 337, Number 17
  David Orentlicher, M.D., J.D.
• New England Journal of Medicine: Legal Issues in Medicine
  The Bell Tolls for a Constitutional Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide
  October 9, 1997 -- Volume 337, Number 15
  George J. Annas
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Editorial
  The Nazi Doctors and Nuremberg: Some Moral Lessons Revisited
  August 15, 1997. 127:307-308.
  Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Dialysis and Continuing Aggressive Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults
  August 1, 1997. 127:195-202.
  Mary Beth Hamel, MD, MPH; Russell S. Phillips, MD; Roger B. Davis, ScD; Norman Desbiens, MD; Alfred F. Connors Jr., MD; Joan M. Teno, MD, MS; Neil Wenger, MD, MPH; Joanne Lynn, MD; Albert W. Wu, MD, MPH; William Fulkerson, MD; and Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH, for the SUPPORT Investigators
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  Patient Preferences for Communication with Physicians about End-of-Life Decisions
  July 1, 1997. 127:1-12.
  Jan C. Hofmann, MD; Neil S. Wenger, MD; Roger B. Davis, ScD; Joan Teno, MD; Alfred F. Connors Jr., MD; Norman Desbiens, MD; Joanne Lynn, MD; and Russell S. Phillips, MD, for the SUPPORT Investigators
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  Overriding a Patient's Refusal of Treatment after an Iatrogenic Complication
  June 26, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 26
  David Casarett, M.D., Lainie F. Ross, M.D., Ph.D
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Perspective
  Genetic Testing Opens Brave New World
  June 15, 1997
  Jill Waalen
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  Ethics of a Paired-Kidney-Exchange Program
  June 12, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 24
  Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D., David T. Rubin, M.D., Mark Siegler, M.D., Michelle A. Josephson, M.D., J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., E. Steve Woodle, M.D
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  Disability and Physician-Assisted Suicide
  June 5, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 23
  Andrew I. Batavia, J.D.
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Perspective
  Learning from Our Patients: One Participant's Impact on Clinical Trial Research and Informed Consent
  June 1, 1997
  Christopher K. Daugherty, MD; Mark Siegler, MD; Mark J. Ratain, MD; and George Zimmer, PhD
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  Unlimited Human Autonomy -- A Cultural Bias?
  March 27, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 13
  Shimon M. Glick, M.D.
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  Can Clinical Interventions Change Care at the End of Life?
  March 1, 1997. 126:381-388.
  Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH, James A. Tulsky, MD, and Marion Danis, MD
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  Withdrawing Intensive Life-Sustaining Treatment -- Recommendations for Compassionate Clinical Management
  February 27, 1997 -- Volume 336, Number 9
  Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., Margaret L. Campbell, R.N., M.S.N., C.S., Kathy Faber-Langendoen, M.D, Karen S. Ogle, M.D.
• Annals of Internal Medicine:
  Perceptions by Family Members of the Dying Experience of Older and Seriously Ill Patients
  January 15, 1997. 126:97-106
  Joanne Lynn, MD, et.al. for the SUPPORT Investigators
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Medicine and Public Issues
  Recognizing Bedside Rationing: Clear Cases and Tough Calls
  January 1, 1997. 126:74-80
  Peter A. Ubel, MD, and Susan Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
• Archives of Internal Medicine: Review Article
  Legal and Ethical Myths About Informed Consent
  December 9/23, 1996 -- 1996;156:2521-2526
  Alan Meisel, JD; Mark Kuczewski, PhD MPH
• New England Journal of Medicine: Clinical Problem Solving
  When Too Much Is Too Little
  December 5, 1996 -- Volume 335, Number 23
  R. Sean Morrison, Diane E. Meier, Christine K. Cassel
• New England Journal of Medicine: Editorial
  Euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Good News or Bad?
  November 28, 1996 -- Volume 335, Number 22
  Marcia Angell, M.D.
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Perspective
  Physician Recommendations and Patient Autonomy: Finding a Balance between Physician Power and Patient Choice
  November 1, 1996
  Timothy E. Quill, MD, and Howard Brody, MD, PhD
• Annals of Internal Medicine:Medicine and Public Issues
  Medical Futility: Response to Critiques
  October 15, 1996. --125:669-674
  Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD; Nancy S. Jecker, PhD; and Albert R. Jonsen, PhD
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Editorials
  Odds and Ends: Trust and the Debate over Medical Futility
  October 15, 1996
  Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
• Annals of Internal Medicine
  Withdrawing Life Support from Mechanically Ventilated Recipients of Bone Marrow Transplants: A Case for Evidence-Based Guidelines
  October 15, 1996. 125:625-633
  Gordon D. Rubenfeld, MD, and Stephen W. Crawford, MD
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  The Purpose of Advance Medical Planning -- Autonomy for Patients or Limitation of Care?
  September 5, 1996 -- Volume 335, Number 10
  Norman G. Levinsky, M.D.
• Annals of Internal Medicine
  Mandated Choice for Organ Donation: Time To Give It a Try
  July 1, 1996. 125:66-69
  Aaron Spital, MD
• New England Journal of Medicine: Sounding Board
  A Proposal to Restructure Hospital Care for Dying Patients
  June 27, 1996 -- Volume 334, Number 26
  Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D., Joseph J. Fins, M.D.