Featured Articles on Current Issues

This Featured Articles section contains a topical listing of articles written by AAME board members, staff, and contributors.* Most articles are the result of comprehensive research by medical professionals, and may be used as authoritative and informative resources for addressing these current issues.

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Articles from Bioethics.net, the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, First Things, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and the Loma Linda University Center for Christian Bioethics are available through their respective Web sites.

Beginning of Life Issues

• The Stones Cry Out [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Human Life Begins with the One-celled Embryo [PDF]
• Men and Abortion (Life Issues Institute)
• Fetal Pain Legislation: Is it Viable? [PDF] - Teresa Stanton Collett
• The Woman and the Physician Facing Abortion [PDF] - Dianne N. Irving, PhD
• New Drug Application 21-045, Levonorgestrel, and Their Possible Abortifacient Effects [PDF] - Dianne N. Irving, PhD
• The Ends Don't Justify the Genes (CBHD)- John F. Kilner, PhD
• Poor Prognosis for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)? (CBHD) - John F. Kilner, PhD
• The Growing Debate About the Abortifacient Effect of the Birth Control Pill and the Principle of the Double Effect [PDF] - Walter L. Larimore, MD
• Ethical Issues Regarding Post-Fertilization Effects of Oral Contraceptives [PDF] - Walter L. Larimore, MD
• Condoms and STDs [PDF] - Gene Rudd, MD
• Emergency Contraception, Abortion and Informed Consent [PDF] - Gene Rudd, MD
• Should the Condom Come with a Health Warning? [PDF] - Graham White
• Why Can't We Love Them Both? [PDF] (Life Issues Institute) - John Willke, MD

Cloning and Stem Cell Research

• Dangers of "Therapeutic" Cloning and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research [PDF]
• Embryonic Stem Cells vs. Adult Stem Cells [PDF]
• Embryonic / Adult Stem Cell Research Resources (Life Issues Institute)
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research is a Dead End [PDF]
• "Therapeutic" Cloning is Potentially Harmful to Women [PDF]
• Human Cloning (CBHD) - John F. Kilner, PhD
• A Scientist Looks At Cloning [PDF] - David A. Prentice, PhD
• Human Cloning: Is It Ethical and Necessary? [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Problematic Portions of MASS HB2039 2005 Stem Cell/Cloning Bill [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Stem Cell Research and Cloning: Science and Ethics [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Oppose E2SSB 5581 [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Oppose EHB 1268 [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Oppose EHB 1268: Letter to Washington Legislators [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Oppose EHB 1268: Letter to Senator Brown [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD

Patient Care and Advance Planning

• Dialysis Patients' Preferences for Family-Based Advance Care Planning [PDF] - Stephen C. Hines, PhD, et al
• Improving Advance Care Planning by Accommodating Family Preferences [PDF] - Stephen C. Hines, PhD, et al
• Age-Based Rationing of Health Care (CBHD) - John F. Kilner, PhD
• ESRD Patient Quality of Life [PDF] - Paul L. Kimmel, MD, et al
• Shared Decision-Making in Dialysis: The New RPA/ASN Guideline on Appropriate Initiation and Withdrawal of Treatment [PDF] - David Z. Levine, MD
• Dialysis Decision Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States [PDF] - John K. McKenzie, MD, et al
• Communicating Prognosis in the Dialysis Consent Process: A Patient-Centered, Guideline-Supported Approach [PDF] - Donna M. Michel and Alvin H. Moss
• Competence, Capacity, and Surrogate Decision-Making (CBHD) - Robert D. Orr, MD
• When “Minimal Risk” Research Yields Clinically-Significant Data, Maybe the Risks Aren’t So Minimal (Bioethics.net) - Helen M. Sharp and Robert D. Orr, MD

Homosexuality

• Quotation Errors in AAP's Technical Report [PDF] - Sharon Quick, MD
• Analysis of AAP's Technical Report on Same-Sex Adoption [PDF] - Testimony of Sharon Quick, MD

End of Life Issues

• Resources for Washington State Members
• Death in the Family (NYT Article)
• Euthanasia... When the Doctor Kills the Patient (Life Issues Institute)
• Development and Outcomes of a Statewide Network of Hospital-Based Palliative Care Teams [PDF] - Angela Reed Demanelis, MPA, et al
• Failure of Advance Care Planning to Elicit Patients’ Preferences
  forWithdrawal From Dialysis [PDF] - Jean L. Holley, MD, et al
• The Need for End-of-Life Care Training in Nephrology: National Survey Results of Nephrology Fellows [PDF] - Jean L. Holley, MD, et al
• Don't Wait to Make Your End-of-Life Wishes Known (CBHD)- John F. Kilner, PhD
• Attitudes of Patients Toward Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Dialysis Unit [PDF] - Alvin H. Moss, MD, et al
• A New Clinical Practice Guideline on Initiation and Withdrawl of Dialysis That Makes Explicit the Role of Palliative Medicine [PDF] - Alvin H. Moss, MD
• Ethics & Life's Ending: An Exchange (FT) - Robert D. Orr, MD, and Gilbert Meilander, PhD
• Is Posthumous Semen Retrieval Ethically Permissible? (JME) - Robert D. Orr, MD, and M. Siegler
• Just Put Me to Sleep... Please! Ethical Issues in Palliative and “Terminal” Sedation (CCB) [PDF] - Robert D. Orr, MD
• Maintain the "Dead Donor Rule" (CCB) - Robert D. Orr, MD
• Withholding andWithdrawing Dialysis: The Role of Physician Specialty and Education and Patient Functional Status [PDF] - Mohamed A. Sekkarie, MD, and Alvin H. Moss, MD

The Medical Profession

• It's All in What You Call It [PDF]
• Addressing Issues of Moral Complicity: When?, Where?, Why?, and Other Questions (CBHD) - Robert D. Orr, MD
• The Hippocratic Oath: Is It Still Relevant? (CCB) - Robert D. Orr, MD
• Personal and Professional Integrity in Clinical Medicine (CCB) - Robert D. Orr, MD
• Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies (CCB) - Robert D. Orr, MD

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