Ethics Articles & Resources
Resources
Articles
U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help
May 10, 2021: The Hastings Center
Read ArticleDr. Mildred Solomon on Disability Rights and Bioethics
March 18, 2021: INCLUDED The Disability Equity Podcast
Listen to this episodeSurrogate Decision-Making for Incarcerated Patients: A Pandemic-Inspired Call to Action
March 24, 2021: The Hastings Center
Read ArticleWhat Is Death? How the Pandemic is Changing Our Understanding of Mortality
December 18, 2020: The New York Times
ReadSome Lives Matter: The Dirty Little Secret of the U.S. Health Care System
October 23, 2020: The Hastings Center Report
ReadHastings Center President Speaks on Systemic Racism, Health Inequities, and Covid-19
October 17, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadLawsuits of Last Resort: Employees Fight for Safe Workplaces during Covid-19
July 29, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadBefore We Turn to Digital Contact Tracing for Covid, Remember Surveillance in the Sixties
July 10, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadCovid-19 Makes Clear that Bioethics Must Confront Health Disparities
July 9, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadMost People With Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
June 30, 2020: The New York Times
ReadBlack Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End-of-Life Care
June 29, 2020: The Hastings Center Report
ReadThe COVID-19 Pandemic Shows Why We Must—And How We Can—End Racial Injustice in Health
June 18, 2020: TIME
Read“You Can See Your Loved One Now.” Can Visitor Restrictions During Covid Unduly Influence End-of-Life Decisions?
June 18, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadQuestions of Bias in COVID-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families
May 10, 2020: The New York Times
ReadUnblinded: Systematic Racism, Institutional Oppression, and Colorblindness
May 7, 2020: Bioethics.net
ReadImmigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery
April 23, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadDenying Ventilators to COVID-19 Patients with Prior DNR Orders is Unethical
April 21, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadStructural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies
April 20, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadEthics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for COVID-19
April 15, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadFair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines – Not Business as Usual – Will Save More Patients with Disabilities
April 7, 2020: The Denver Post
ReadNY State Task Force on Life and the Law Ventilator Allocation Guidelines: How Our Views on Disability Evolved
April 7, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadWhy I Support Age-Related Rationing of Ventilators for Covid-19 Patients
April 9, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadWhat You Should Know Before You Need a Ventilator (The New York Times)
April 4, 2020: The New York Times
ReadU.S. Civil Rights Office Rejects Rationing Medical Care Based on Disability, Age
March 28, 2020: The New York Times
ReadDisabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation
April 1, 2020: The Hastings Center
ReadNew York’s Bioethics Experts Prepare for a Wave of Difficult Decisions
March 28, 2020: The Washington Post
ReadAid in Dying Soon Will Be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It.
July 8, 2019: The New York Times
ReadStem Cell Treatments Flourish With Little Evidence That They Work
May 13, 2019: The New York Times
ReadExploring the Science, and the Snake Oil, Behind Regenerative Stem Cell Therapy
November 7, 2018: Seven Days
Read ArticleTexas couple has 10 days to find hospital willing to keep daughter on life support
October 5, 2018: CBS News
ReadShould Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?
March 22, 2016: New York Times
ReadAid-In-Dying Laws Only Accentuate Need For Palliative Care, Providers Say
December 1, 2015: Kaiser Health News
ReadChoosing Wisely Initiative: a step forward in effort to curb unnecessary imaging
August 28, 2012: Fierce Health IT
ReadBig Med: Restaurant chains have managed to combine quality control, cost control, and innovation. Can health care?
August 13, 2012: The New Yorker
ReadMedicare May Penalize Hospitals that Readmit Too Many Patients
December 12, 2011: Washington Post
ReadPay Ban on Donor Organs Doesn't Include Bone Marrow, Court Says
December 2, 2011: Los Angeles Times
ReadSelected Rural Health Care Ethics Bibliography
General Health Care Ethics
- American College of Physicians. Ethics manual: 4th ed. Annals of Internal Medicine 1998;128 (7): 576-594.
- Lo, B. 2008. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Singer PA, Viens AM, eds. The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press; 2008.
Ethics Committees
- Aulisio, M., R. Arnold, and S. Youngner. Health care ethics consultation: nature, goals, and competencies.” Annals of Internal Medicine 2000;133 (1): 59-69.
- Post, L., Blustein, J. and N. Dubler. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 2006.
Rural Health Care Ethics
- Bushy A. When you client lives in a rural area. Part I: rural health care delivery issues. Issues Ment Health Nurs 1994;15:253-66.
- Cook AF, Hoas H, Joyner JC. No secrets on main street. Am J Nurs 2001;101:67,69-71.
- Cook AF, Hoas H, Guttmannova K. Bioethics activities in rural hospitals. Camb Q
Healthc Ethics 2000;9(2):230-238. - Cook A, Hoas H. Are healthcare ethics committees necessary in rural hospitals? HEC
Forum. Jun 1999;11(2):134-139. - Cook AF, Hoas H. Where the rubber hits the road: implications for organizational and
clinical ethics in rural health care settings. HEC Forum 2000;12(4):331-340. - Cook AF,Hoas H. Voices from the margins: a context for developing bioethics-related
resources in rural areas. Am J Bioeth 2001;1(4), W12. - Cook A F, Hoas H. Re-framing the question: what do we really want to know about rural
healthcare ethics? Am J Bioeth 2006;6(2):51-53. - Cook AF, Hoas H. Ethics and rural healthcare: what really happens? What might help?
Am J Bioeth. Apr 2008;8(4):52-56. - Klugman CM, Dalinis PM, eds. Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care. Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press; 2008. - Nelson WA. Addressing rural ethics issues. The characteristics of rural health care settings pose unique ethical challenges. Healthc Exec 2004;19:36-7.
- Nelson WA. Ethics programs in small rural hospitals. Ethics committees are essential all healthcare facilities, not just large ones. Healthc Exec. 2007;22(6):30, 32-33.
- Nelson W, Pomerantz A, Howard K, Bushy A. A proposed rural healthcare ethics agenda. J Med Ethics. 2007;33(3):136-139.
- Nelson WA, Schmidek JM. Rural healthcare ethics. In: Singer PA, Viens AM, (eds). The Cambridge textbook of bioethics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2008:289-298.
- Nelson WA. Rural health care ethics: an overview. In Klugman C, (ed). Rural Ethics Reader. Baltimore: The Hopkins Press. 2008.
- Nelson WA, (ed). Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide for
Professionals. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College; 2009 (http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cfm/resources/ethics/). - Nelson WA, Greene MA, West, A. Rural health care ethics: no longer the forgotten
quarter. Camb Q Healthc Ethics 2010;19(4):510-517. - Purtilo RB, Sorrell J. The ethical dilemmas of a rural phycisian. Hastings Cent Rep
1986;16(4):24-28. - Purtilo RB. Rural health care: the forgotten quarter of medical ethics. Second Opin
1987(6):10-33. - Rurtilo RB. The ethical life of rural health care professionals In: Nelson WA, ed.
Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide For Professionals. Lebanon,
NH: University Press of New England; 43-59. - Roberts LW, Battaglia J, Epstein RS. Frontier ethics: mental health care needs and ethical dilemmas in rural communities. Psychiatr Serv 1999;50:497-503.
- Roberts LW, Battaglia J, Smithpeter M, et al. An office on main street: health care dilemmas in small communities. Hastings Cent Rep 1999;29:28-37.
