Moral Obligations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A gift of life: ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation. 
  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • At what cost? Stewardship of our most important resources 
  • Blame, not ability, impacts moral "ought" judgments for impossible actions: Toward an empirical refutation of "ought" implies "can". 
  • Caution: conscience is the limb on which medical ethics sits. 
  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Commentary: Addressing the Challenges of the Homeless Patient. 
  • Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. 
  • Contractarianism and the "trolley" problem. 
  • Courage and Compassion: Virtues in Caring for So-Called "Difficult" Patients. 
  • Directive counsel and morally controversial medical decision-making: findings from two national surveys of primary care physicians. 
  • Embryo research revisited. 
  • Enhancement and the ethics of development. 
  • Equal Opportunity and Genetic Intervention 
  • Ethical challenges in the new world of maternal-fetal surgery. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Ethical standards for cardiothoracic surgeons' participation in social media. 
  • Ethics: Moral issues of human-non-human primate neural grafting. 
  • How does inequality affect our sense of moral obligation? 
  • I'll be a monkey's uncle: a moral challenge to human genetic enhancement research. 
  • Indecision. 
  • Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective . 
  • Managed care: rationing without justice, but not unjustly. 
  • Medical care for the poor: finite resources, infinite need. 
  • Medical, ethical and legal issues regarding thrombolytic therapy in the Jehovah's Witness. 
  • Myocardial infarction--Case studies of ethics in the consent situation. 
  • Neuroethics: Fostering Collaborations to Enable Neuroscientific Discovery 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Perceptions of Equipoise, Risk-Benefit Ratios, and "Otherwise Healthy Volunteers" in the Context of Early-Phase HIV Cure Research in the United States: A Qualitative Inquiry. 
  • Physicians' duties in an era of cost containment: advocacy or betrayal? 
  • Professional secrecy: a vincible right. 
  • Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs. 
  • Reexpressing Parenthood 
  • SAPs: a different perspective. 
  • Safeguarding the Public's Health: Ethical Nursing. 
  • The Controversy Over Retrospective Moral Judgment 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The moral limits of population control. 
  • The profit motive in medicine. 
  • The right to privacy and the duty to protect. 
  • The role of affect in feelings of obligation. 
  • Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine. 
  • To help the sick: an historical and ethical essay concerning the refusal to care for patients with AIDS. 
  • Trust in Managed Care Organizations 
  • Why Should We Publish All Clinical Trials?