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Non-Beneficial Care?
Who decides to continue treatment – the medical team or the DPOA?
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Resources
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Medical Ethics – Narrative Ethics
Narrative ethics help tell the story and provide a framework for ethical decision making.
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Medical Ethics – Ethics and Complementary Medicine
Ethical issues abound in alternative and complementary medicine.
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Medical Ethics – Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Ethical Issues in Healthcare of Persons with Developmental Disabilities A Threat to Disabled Persons? On the Genetics Approach to Developmental Disabilities This essay by Hans S. Reinders explores the claim that the genetics approach to intellectual disability does not imply a negative evaluation of disabled persons because there is a distinction between the person and…
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Elder Abuse
An estimated 120 million adult Americans (57 percent) are either providing unpaid care to an adult family member or friend or have provided this care in the past.
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The Case of John: Refusal to Eat in a Long-Term Care Facility
Is there clear and convincing evidence that John is done eating?
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The Case of Mary Jo Hoffman: The Wanted, Unwanted Doctor
The Case of Mary Jo Hoffman: The Wanted, Unwanted Doctor Print This Case Study Bioethics Forum 16 (3) Case by David Emmott, MD, and Helen Emmott, RN Discussion Questions Compiled by Robert Potter, MD, PhD. Mary Jo Hoffman, a lovely forty-nine-year-old female, came to Dr. Clarke, urologist, after being seen by her…