Section 6. Additional Resources
Consent and Coercion
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/consent/conslink.htm
Fetal Rights
- ACLU
Reproductive Freedom: What's Wrong with Fetal Rights - A look at fetal
protection statutes and wrongful death actions on behalf of fetuses.
-
The Controversy Over Fetal Rights - A select bibliography from the
University of Arizona Library.
- Fetal Abuse
- The rash of women being charged criminally, or having their babies taken
away from them, because they took drugs while pregnant focuses attention
on the notion that unborn babies deserve the same legal protections as
children.
- Fetal Rights
Institute - The Fetal Rights Institute is dedicated to the extension
of human rights to the unborn through lawful, non-violent means.
- Fetal Rights: Unborn
Victim - The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) is a
non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women’s equality worldwide
by guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights.
-
Maternal-Fetal Conflict - Examines the rising awareness of
maternal-fetal conflict from an athical perspective in the medical
profession.
- Rights
of the Unborn Under International Law - Discusses the basis for claims
that the unborn have rights. Site created by Priests For Life.
- Setback For
Fetal Rights - Article republished from the Chicago Tribune of May 27,
1999 covers a Wisconsin alcohol case.
-
Fetuses Gain Legal Status - Bush administration allows states to call
fetus 'unborn child' in order to give mothers prenatal care coverage
enrolling them in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
(February 1, 2002)
-
ABC
News.com : The Fetal Rights Debate - A look at fetal abuse cases,
including drug abuse cases and acts of violence. (June 25, 2001)
Parental Refusal
Here is a listing of reports on cases in which parents refuse treatment
for their children.
http://www.rickross.com/groups/firstborn.html
Truth Telling
Placebos Articles On-Line:
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Informed Consent
- Applebaum PS, Lidz CW, Meisel A. Informed
Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987.
- Brody H.
Transparency: informed consent
in primary Care. Hastings Center Report 1989;19(5):5-9.
- Faden RR, Beauchamp TL, with King N. A
History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press,
1986.
- Meisel A, Kuczewski M.
Legal and ethical
myths about informed consent. Archives of Internal Medicine
1996;156(22):2521-6.
Truth Telling
- Blanchard C. Information and
decision-making preferences of hospitalized adult cancer patients.
Social Science & Medicine 1988;27:1139-45.
- English DC. Truth-telling. In: Bioethics:
A Clinical Guide for Medical Students. New York: W.W. Norton and Company,
1994:38-43.
- Erde E ,Nadan E, Scholl T. On
truth-telling and the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of
Family Practice 1988;4:401-6.
- Gilligan T, Raffin TA.
End-of-life
discussions with patients. Timing and truth-telling. Chest
1996;109(1):11-2.
- Miyaji NT.
The power of compassion:
truth-telling among American doctors in the care of dying patients.
Social Science and Medicine 1993;36(3):249-64.
- Surbone A.
Truth-telling, risk, and hope.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1997;809:72-9.
Confidentiality
- Davidson JR, Davidson T.
Confidentiality
and managed care: ethical and legal concerns. Health and Social Work
1996;21(3):208-15.
- Freedman B.
Violating confidentiality to
warn of a risk of HIV infection: ethical work in progress. Theoretical
Medicine 1991;12(4):309-23.
- Green SA.
The ethical limits of
confidentiality in the therapeutic relationship. General Hospital
Psychiatry 1995;17(2):80-4.
- Tilton SH.
Right to privacy and
confidentiality of medical records. Occupational Medicine
1996;11(1):17-29.
Maternal-Fetal Conflict
- Duden B.
Disembodying Women. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Kolder VEB, Gallagher J, Parsons MT.
Court-ordered obstetrical interventions. NEJM 1987; 316:1192-6.
- Mahowald MB.
Fetus: philosophical and
ethical issues. In: Reich WT, editor. Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Revised
Edition. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1995: 851.
- Mattingly SS.
The maternal-fetal dyad:
exploring the two patient obstetrical model. Hastings Center Report
1992;22(1):13-18.
- Murry TH.
Moral obligations to the
not-yet-born. In: Mappes TA, Zembaty JS. editors. Biomedical Ethics.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Parental Decision Making
- Buchanan AE, Brock DW. Deciding For
Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
- Committee on Bioethics, American Academy of
Pediatrics. Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in
pediatric practice. Pediatrics 1995;95:314-7.
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