Alan Meisel
Biographic Data
| ID | 226682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Meisel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Meisel |
| SIGNATURE | MEISEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Fading Decision
Mrs. F, seventy‐five, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She and her spouse often discussed how to handle the progression of the disease. She was adamant about not coming to the point where she would be unable to recognize herself, her husband, or their son and daughter. The manner she chose was voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and she chose a specific date on which to carry out her plan. She asked her husband to promise, should she …
Quality of life and end-of-life decisionmaking
Deciding for Others
Chronic disease
Psychiatric Treatment and the Romance of the Law
Case Studies
Mrs. X and the Bone Marrow Transplant
The case is presented in which a leukemia patient sought an order from an Iowa district court to compel the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) to recontact, specifically on the patient's behalf, a potential bone marrow donor who had refused a general request to participate in the transplant program. Charles Lidz, Alan Meisel, and Loren Roth argue against judicial intervention, primarily on the grounds that a follow-up letter woul…
Confidentiality and Rape Counseling
C enters that provide counseling for the victims of rape and sexual assault have proliferated in the last half-dozen years or so, paralleling the increased public awareness of the frequency with which these offenses occur, the devastating consequences for the victims, and the difficulties that face those who wish to report and prosecute rape. Counseling can help a victim deal with the emotional trauma of rape, as well as with the intricacies of t…
Must a Man Be His Cousin's Keeper
ing to compel one person to donate a portion of his body to Yet recent events in Pittsburgh raised just that question. Robert McFall, a thirty-nine-yearold, unmarried asbestos worker, suffering from a usually fatal aplastic anemia, filed a suit in Judge Flaherty's court seeking an injunction to compel David Shimp, his unwilling cousin, to undergo a bone marrow transplant that doctors claimed was necessary to save McFall's life. The average citize…
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Must a Man Be His Cousin's Keeper
ing to compel one person to donate a portion of his body to Yet recent events in Pittsburgh raised just that question. Robert McFall, a thirty-nine-yearold, unmarried asbestos worker, suffering from a usually fatal aplastic anemia, filed a suit in Judge Flaherty's court seeking an injunction to compel David Shimp, his unwilling cousin, to undergo a bone marrow transplant that doctors claimed was necessary to save McFall's life. The average citize…
Confidentiality and Rape Counseling
C enters that provide counseling for the victims of rape and sexual assault have proliferated in the last half-dozen years or so, paralleling the increased public awareness of the frequency with which these offenses occur, the devastating consequences for the victims, and the difficulties that face those who wish to report and prosecute rape. Counseling can help a victim deal with the emotional trauma of rape, as well as with the intricacies of t…
Case Studies
Mrs. X and the Bone Marrow Transplant
The case is presented in which a leukemia patient sought an order from an Iowa district court to compel the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) to recontact, specifically on the patient's behalf, a potential bone marrow donor who had refused a general request to participate in the transplant program. Charles Lidz, Alan Meisel, and Loren Roth argue against judicial intervention, primarily on the grounds that a follow-up letter woul…
Chronic disease
Psychiatric Treatment and the Romance of the Law
Deciding for Others
Quality of life and end-of-life decisionmaking
A Fading Decision
Mrs. F, seventy‐five, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She and her spouse often discussed how to handle the progression of the disease. She was adamant about not coming to the point where she would be unable to recognize herself, her husband, or their son and daughter. The manner she chose was voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and she chose a specific date on which to carry out her plan. She asked her husband to promise, should she …
Psychology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Alternative medicine (2 works) · Bone marrow (2 works) · Bone marrow transplant (2 works) · Bone marrow transplantation (2 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (2 works)