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  • "As much as I would prefer to avert my moral gaze, a late abortion forces me to confront the reality of abortion and my own incompletely suppressed doubts," writes ethicist Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, a medical-ethics research institute in New York.

    Re: Am I Blue? - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • The majority decision in this case asserts that there is no consensus among health care professionals about the precise boundaries of the legitimate practice of medicine (a legal notion similar to the medical-ethics notion of proper ends of medicine).

    The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics Beauchamp, Tom 2008

  • Helping Families On Big Questions In hospitals, medical-ethics teams are increasingly the arbiters of agonizing health decisions: helping parents and doctors plan care for a dying child, mediating among family members who disagree about removing a parent from life support, or steering patients in denial about a terminal illness toward end-of-life care.

    Life and Death: 2008

  • According to a hospital medical director, who asked not to be identified because of the medical-ethics issues posed by lethal injection, available stores of thiopental have been further depleted because of a shortage of the drug propofol, the anesthetic that killed pop star Michael Jackson.

    azcentral.com | news 2010

  • World Report included medical-ethics programs -- there are about a dozen large centers and many more small ones around the country -- in its annual survey of colleges, and the center got the nod as number one.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • He became a fellow three years ago and is now director of the medical-ethics program at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Stern said he is willing to discuss his resignation with medical-ethics groups, but he has avoided anti-death-penalty groups.

    unknown title 2009

  • Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a medical-ethics watchdog, is putting pressure on the National Institutes of Health to do all it can to curb the practice.

    chron.com Chronicle 2009

  • Arthur Caplan, is chairman of the medical-ethics department at the University of Pennsylvania

    Free Democracy 2008

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; green = 1; living = 1; politics = 1; nickname = michael-eisen; entry_id = 173352; bioethics = 1; ethics = 1; medical-ethics = 1; morality = 1; sceince-ethics = 1; science-scientists = 1; stem-cell-research = 1; stem-cells = 1",

    Michael Eisen: Hey Mr. Bioethicist, Scientists are Not Amoral 2009

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