Center for Bioethics Papers
Papers from 2015
What Mediators Can Teach Physicians about Managing 'Difficult' Patients, Autumn Fiester
Papers from 2014
Clinical Ethics Credentialing and the Perilous Cart-Before-the-Horse Problem, Autumn Fiester
Neglected Ends: Clinical Ethics Consultation and the Prospects for Closure, Autumn Fiester
'Quality Attestation' and the Risk of the False Positive, Autumn Fiester
Teaching Nonauthoritarian Clinical Ethics: Using an Inventory of Values and Positions, Autumn Fiester
Weaponizing Principles: Clinical Ethics Consultations & the Plight of the Morally Vulnerable, Autumn Fiester
When It Hurts to Ask: Avoiding Moral Injury in Requests to Forgo Treatment, Autumn Fiester
Papers from 2012
A Dubious Export: The Moral Perils of American-Style Ethics Consultation, Autumn Fiester
Mediation and Advocacy, Autumn Fiester
Mediation and Recommendations, Autumn Fiester
The "Difficult" Patient Reconceived: An Expanded Moral Mandate for Clinical Ethics, Autumn Fiester
Commentary: The Questions We Shouldn't Ask, Lance Wahlert and Autumn Fiester
Papers from 2011
What "Patient-Centered Care" Requires in Serious Cultural Conflict, Autumn Fiester
Failing Those at Ground Zero… Again: American Public Health Responses to AIDS and 9/11, Autumn Fiester and Lance Wahlert
Papers from 2010
Desktop Medicine, Jason Karlawish
The Queering of HIV Testing Practices and the Reinforcement of Stigma, Lance Wahlert and Autumn Fiester
Papers from 2009
Right to reform, Arthur L. Caplan
Older Adults’ Attitudes Toward Enrollment of Noncompetent Subjects Participating in Alzheimer’s Research, Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Rubright, David Casarett, Mark Cary, Thomas Ten Have, and Pamela Sankar
Papers from 2008
Does the biomedical revolution spell the end of sport?, Arthur L. Caplan
A Proposed Ethical Framework for Vaccine Mandates: Competing Values and the Case of HPV, Robert I. Field and Arthur L. Caplan
Justifying a Presumption of Restraint in Animal Biotechnology Research, Autumn Fiester
Papers from 2007
Halfway there: the struggle to manage conflicts of interest, Arthur L. Caplan
Casuistry and the moral continuum: Evaluating animal biotechnology, Autumn Fiester
The Failure of the Consult Model: Why "Mediation" Should Replace "Consultation", Autumn Fiester
The Principlist Paradigm and the Problem of the False Negative: Why the Clinical Ethics We Teach Fails Patients, Autumn Fiester
Voting by Elderly Persons with Cognitive Impairment: Lessons from Other Democratic Nations, Jason Karlawish and Richard J. Bonnie
The Triumph of Autonomy in Bioethics and Commercialism in American Healthcare, Jonathan Moreno
Re-examining ethical obligations in the intensive care unit: HIV disclosure to surrogates, Anthony T. Vernillo, Paul Root Wolpe, and Scott D. Halpern
Papers from 2006
No Method, Thus Madness?, Arthur L. Caplan
Evaluating the Case Against Pet Cloning, Autumn Fiester
Why the Omega-3 Piggy Should Not Go to Market, Autumn Fiester
Review of Mark D. Bennett and Joan McIver Gibson, A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action, Vardit Ravitsky
Papers from 2005
"Who Lost China?" A Foreshadowing of Today's Ideological Disputes in Bioethics, Arthur L. Caplan
Creating Fido's Twin: Can Pet Cloning be Ethically Justified, Autumn Fiester
Ethical Issues in Animal Cloning, Autumn Fiester
A qualitative study of women’s views on medical confidentiality, G Jenkins, Jon F. Merz, and Pamela Sankar
What Are Gene Patents and Why Are People Worried about Them?, Jon F. Merz and Mildred K. Cho
Timers on Ventilators, Vardit Ravitsky
Respondent Burden in Clinical Research: When Are We Asking Too Much of Subjects?, Connie M. Ulrich, Gwyneth R. Wallen, Autumn Fiester, and Christine Grady
Papers from 2004
Monitoring and manipulating the human brain: new neuroscience technologies and their ethical implications, Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe
Physicians and Strikes: Can a Walkout Over the Malpractice Crisis Be Ethically Justified?, Autumn Fiester
Ethical Considerations in Treating the Horse with Laminitis, Autumn Fiester and Lori Mann
Embryo disposal practices in IVF clinics in the United States, Andrea D. Gurmankin, Dominic Sisti, and Arthur L. Caplan
Addressing the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Raised by Voting by Persons with Dementia, Jason H. Karlawish, Richard J. Bonnie, Paul S. Appelbaum, Constantine Lyketsos, Bryan James, David Knopman, Christopher Patusky, Rosalie A. Kane, and Pamela S. Karlan
The prevalence of patent interferences in gene technology, Jon F. Merz and Michelle R. Henry
'Iceland Inc.'?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics, Jon F. Merz, Glenn E. McGee, and Pamela Sankar
Posthumous Reproduction Guidelines in Israel, Vardit Ravitsky
Communication and Miscommunication in Informed Consent to Research, Pamela Sankar
Research Issues in Genetic Testing of Adolescents for Obesity, Mary E. Segal, Pamela Sankar, and Danielle R. Reed
Papers from 2003
Improving Informed Consent: The Medium Is Not the Message, Patricia Agre, Frances A. Campbell, Barbara D. Goldman, Nancy Kass, Maria L. Boccia, Laurence B. McCullough, Jon F. Merz, Suzanne M. Miller, Jim Mintz, Bruce Rapkin, Jeremy Sugarman, James Sorenson, and Donna Wirshing
Brain Research and Neuroethics, Martha J. Farah, Paul Root Wolpe, and Arthur L. Caplan
Bioethics and the Brain, Kenneth R. Foster, Paul Root Wolpe, and Arthur L. Caplan
Israel: Bioethics in a Jewish-Democratic State, Michael L. Gross and Vardit Ravitsky
A Pilot Survey on the Licensing of DNA Inventions, Michelle R. Henry, Mildred K. Cho, Meredith A. Weaver, and Jon F. Merz
All Gifts Large and Small, Dana Katz, Arthur L. Caplan, and Jon F. Merz
Human Experiments and National Security: The Need to Clarify Policy, Jonathan Moreno
Conducting Empirical Research on Informed Consent: Challenges and Questions, Greg A. Sachs, Gavin W. Hougham, Jeremy Sugarman, Patricia Agre, Marion E. Broome, Gail Geller, Nancy Kass, Eric Kodish, Jim Mintz, Laura W. Roberts, Pamela Sankar, Laura E. Siminoff, James Sorenson, and Anita Weiss
Review of John H. Evans, Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate, Paul Root Wolpe
Papers from 2002
Bioethics Consultation in the Private Sector, Baruch Brody, Nancy Dubbler, Jeff Blustein, Arthur L. Caplan, Jeffrey P. Kahn, Nancy Kass, Bernard Lo, Jonathan Moreno, Jeremy Sugarman, and Laurie Zoloth
Cloning Human Embryos: Decisions must not be made by private corporations behind closed doors, Arthur L. Caplan and Glenn McGee
Solid-Organ Transplantation in HIV-Infected Patients, Scott D. Halpern, Peter A. Ubel, and Arthur L. Caplan
The Search for a Coherent Language: The Science and Politics of Drug Testing and Approval, Jason Karlawish
Successes and Failures of Hospital Ethics Committees: A National Survey of Ethics Committee Chairs, Glenn E. McGee, Joshua P. Spanogle, Arthur L. Caplan, Dina Penny, and David A. Asch
Diagnostic testing fails the test: The pitfalls of patents are illustrated by the case of hemochromatosis, Jon F. Merz, Antigone T. Kriss, Debra G. B. Leonard, and Mildred K. Cho
Protecting Subjects' Interests in Genetics Research, Jon F. Merz, David Magnus, Mildred K. Cho, and Arthur L. Caplan
Pilot Study: Does the White Coat Influence Research Participation?, Jon F. Merz, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Pamela Sankar, and Emma A. Meagher
A Taxonomy of Value in Clinical Research, Jonathan Moreno
Making Sense of Consensus: Responses to Engelhardt, Hester, Kuczewski, Trotter, and Zoloth, Jonathan D. Moreno
Genetics and Education: The Ethics of Shaping Human Identity, Vardit Ravitsky
The Neuroscience Revolution, Paul Root Wolpe
Papers from 2001
Open Label Extension Studies and the Ethical Design of Clinical Trials, David Cassarett, Jason Karlawish, Pamela Sankar, Karen Hirschman, and David A. Asch
Goodbye to All That: The End to Moderate Protectionism in Human Subjects Research, Jonathan D. Moreno
Protectionism in Research Involving Human Subjects, Jonathan D. Moreno
Papers from 1999
What is immoral about eugenics?, Arthur L. Caplan, Glenn McGee, and David Magnus
Critical Issues Concerning Research Involving Decisionally Impaired Persons, Jonathan D. Moreno
Papers from 1998
What’s So Special about the Human Genome?, Arthur L. Caplan
Paradigms for Clinical Ethics Consultation Practice, Mark Fox, Glenn McGee, and Arthur L. Caplan
Disease Genes Are Not Patentable: A Rebuttal of McGee, Jon F. Merz
Bioethics Inside the Beltway: IRBs Under the Microscope, Jonathan Moreno
Regulation of Research on the Decisionally Impaired: History and Gaps in the Current Regulatory System, Jonathan D. Moreno
Papers from 1989
The Meaning of the Holocaust for Bioethics, Arthur L. Caplan
Papers from 1988
Professional Arrogance and Public Misunderstanding, Arthur L. Caplan
The Bioethics of Chronic Illness, Arthur L. Caplan, Bruce Jennings, and Daniel Callahan
Papers from 1987
Special Supplement: Ethical and Policy Issues in Rehabilitation Medicine, Arthur L. Caplan, Daniel Callahan, and Janet Haas
Papers from 1984
Is There a Duty to Serve as a Subject in Biomedical Research?, Arthur L. Caplan
Papers from 1983
Organ Transplants: The Cost of Success, Arthur L. Caplan
