Journal ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB · October 2024
Recent calls to address racism in bioethics reflect a sense of urgency to mitigate the lethal effects of a lack of action. While the field was catalyzed largely in response to pivotal events deeply rooted in racism and other structures of oppression embedd ...
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Journal ArticleThe Hastings Center report · March 2022
As a field concerned with ethical issues in health and health care, particularly how structures, policies, and practices unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, bioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism h ...
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Journal ArticleThe Hastings Center report · March 2022
This essay takes as its starting point the claim that addressing anti-Black racism is essential to the work of bioethics in the United States. The essay examines whether and how racism has been addressed in the field's central reference work, the Encyclope ...
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ConferenceThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · January 2022
Health justice seeks, both conceptually and in practice, to strengthen community engagement and empowerment as an integral means of addressing health disparities. In this essay, we explore the nature of communities and their roles in health care/public hea ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Philosophical Quarterly · September 1, 2019
This essay highlights an argument for the moral impermissibility of physician-assisted death based on the prohibition of killing innocents that unfolds in four phases. First, I identify the operative moral principle and then develop a moral argument based ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of religion and health · August 2018
Community-based clergy are highly engaged in helping seriously ill patients address spiritual concerns at the end of life (EOL). While they desire EOL training, no data exist in guiding how to conceptualize a clergy-training program. The objective of this ...
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Journal ArticleChristian Bioethics · June 26, 2018
Ramsey sees life as a gift and a trust given to people by God. This theological understanding of human life frames his judgment of the immorality of euthanasia in its many forms. Assuming Ramsey's theological insights and framing of this issue, I highlight ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management · January 2018
ContextAlthough religion often informs ethical judgments, little is known about the views of American clergy regarding controversial end-of-life ethical issues including allowing to die and physician aid in dying or physician-assisted suicide (PAD ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of palliative medicine · October 2017
BackgroundPeople with serious illness frequently rely on religion/spirituality to cope with their diagnosis, with potentially positive and negative consequences. Clergy are uniquely positioned to help patients consider medical decisions at or near ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management · June 2017
ContextAlthough clergy interact with approximately half of U.S. patients facing end-of-life medical decisions, little is known about clergy-congregant interactions or clergy influence on end-of-life decisions.ObjectiveThe objective was to ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management · April 2016
ContextCommunity-based clergy are highly engaged in helping terminally ill patients address spiritual concerns at the end of life (EOL). Despite playing a central role in EOL care, clergy report feeling ill-equipped to spiritually support patients ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of palliative medicine · December 2015
BackgroundClergy are often important sources of guidance for patients and family members making medical decisions at the end-of-life (EOL). Previous research revealed spiritual support by religious communities led to more aggressive care at the EO ...
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Journal ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · September 2015
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine how oncology nurses and physicians view their role in providing spiritual care (SC), factors influencing this perception, and how this belief affects SC provision.MethodsThis is a survey-ba ...
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Journal ArticleChristian Bioethics · January 1, 2014
This article should be thought to be more of an engagement with the Christian bioethics approach of Engelhardt as opposed to a response. There is much in Engelhardt's critique of secular bioethics and his proposal for Christian bioethics that is right-head ...
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