Robert M Veatch
Biographic Data
| ID | 293470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Veatch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Veatch |
| SIGNATURE | VEATCH R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Should Institutions Disclose the Names of Employees with Covid‐19
Prestigious University is a large, private educational institution with a medical school, a university hospital, a law school, and graduate and undergraduate colleges all on a single campus. In the face of the Covid‐19 pandemic, students were told during spring break to return to campus only briefly to retrieve their belongings. Classes then went online. On March 23, 2020, the faculty, students, and staff were emailed the following by the univers…
Would a Reasonable Person Now Accept the 1968 Harvard Brain Death Report? A Short History of Brain Death
When The Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death began meeting in 1967, I was a graduate student, with committee member Ralph Potter and committee chair Henry Beecher as my mentors. The question of when to stop life support on a severely compromised patient was not clearly differentiated from the question of when someone was dead. A serious clinical problem arose when physicians realized that a patient'…
Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics
The third edition of Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics presents a comprehensive series of cases faced by pharmacists that raise ethical issues, with chapters arranged in a manner that simultaneously presents the topics that would be covered in a course on ethical theory. After an introduction, the book is divided into three parts. The introduction takes up four basic issues in ethical theory: the source, meaning, and justification of ethical claims…
Avoidance of Killing
Avoidance of killing is a moral consideration that arises in health care controversies involving the notions that human life is sacred or that killing is morally wrong. Pharmacists may find themselves in positions where they must reconcile the idea that generally killing is a harm to be avoided based on the principle of nonmaleficence with the idea that death might be perceived by a particular patient as a beneficial outcome. This chapter explore…
What Is the Source of Moral Judgments?
This chapter examines the source or “grounding” of ethical duties. Some believe that for professional ethics, the professional association (in the case of pharmacy in the United States, the American Pharmacists Association) is the source, but, at most, the professional group seems to be only the place where ethical duties of pharmacists are identified, and even that claim is controversial. Others claim the source is the orders of the physician or…
Organs on the Internet
Inactivating a Total Artificial Heart: Special Moral Problems
It seems generally correct that patients (or their valid surrogates) should be able to withdraw consent for the use of the total artificial heart (TAH) just as they presently may withdraw consent for other life-prolonging technologies such as the ventilator, but lingering moral problems remain with such decisions. First, should patients be permitted to demand actual removal of the TAH rather than mere deactivation? Second, foregoing other life-pr…
The Right of Subjects to See the Protocol
Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
Building Bioethics: Conversations with Clouser and Friends on Medical Ethics (Philosophy and Medicine)
Egalitarian and Maximin Theories of Justice: Directed Donation of Organs for Transplant
It is common to interpret Rawls's maximin theory of justice as egalitarian. Compared to utilitarian theories, this may be true. However, in special cases practices that distribute resources so as to benefit the worst off actually increase the inequality between the worst off and some who are better off. In these cases the Rawlsian maximin parts company with what is here called true egalitarianism. A policy question requiring a distinction between…
Abandoning Informed Consent
Which Grounds for Overriding Autonomy Are Legitimate
Autonomy? mains-what will be, that is, the synergistic consequences of a variety of autonomous choices? We now know that it is foolish to look only to how well a new foreign plant does by itself in an old marshland: we need also to know how it will interact with the other plants and what it will do to them. Analogous thinking is necessary in medicine. The vital institution principle-working verticallywould press us to ask about the impact of our …
Abandoning Informed Consent
This paper will defend the thesis that consent is merely a\ntransitional concept. While it emerged in the field as a liberal, innovative\nidea, its time may have passed and newer, more enlightened formulations may be\nneeded. Consent means approval or agreement with the actions or opinions of\nanother; terms such as acquiescence and condoning appear in the dictionary\ndefinitions. In medicine, the physician or other health care provider will,\naf…
The Role of Ethics in Quality and Accountability Initiatives
There are significant moral issues in making a health care system deliver quality health care with accountability. Unfortunately, delivering such care with accountability will have to mean challenging the traditional ethical assumptions of most of the key players in a new health care system. It will mean challenging the traditional Hippocratic ethics of clinicians. At the same time it will also mean challenging the traditional utilitarian ethics …
Momento mori
What Counts as Basic Health Care? Private Values and Public Policy
Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics
Albert R. Jonsen, Shana Alexander, Judith P. Swazey, Warren T. Reich, Robert M. Veatch, Daniel Callahan, Tom L. Beauchamp, Stanley Hauerwas, K. Danner Clouser, David J. Rothman, Daniel M. Fox, Stanley J. Reiser, Arthur L. Caplan, Special Supplement: The Birth of Bioethics, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1993), pp. S1-S16
The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death
No one really believes that literally all functions of the entire\nbrain must be lost for an individual to be dead. A better definition of death\ninvolves a higher brain orientation....It is simply wrong to claim that any\nhigher-brain-oriented concept of death is based on either personhood or\npersonal identity theories....A conscience clause would permit individuals to\nchoose their own definition of death based on their religious and\nphilosop…
Ethical Perspectives on the FDA and ADA Evaluation of Dental Products
Contemporary bioethics is concerned with qualitative decisions rather than quantitative decisions. Several examples are discussed including the role of patients as decision makers in their treatment and in their assignment within clinical trial groups
Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account
Patient Dominance
Advice and Consent
Medical Ethics in the Soviet Union
An American medical ethicist finds the spirit of glasnost and\nperestroika permeating Soviet medical ethics. These times, along with a\nheightened historical consciousness, and a commitment to the Hippocratic\ntradition, have reinforced a conviction about the infinite value of life
More on Clinicians Cutting Costs
Talking about Death: Patterns of Lay and Professional Change
For the past thirty years, researchers have surveyed attitudes of providers and patients to the disclosure of the diagnosis and prognosis to the dying cancer patient. Though the lay population has expressed the wish to know over time, a change in provider attitudes is apparent: physicians are now more likely to inform their dying patients of the truth than before. This trend is viewed against a number of precipitating factors: changes in percepti…
Governmental Population Incentives: Ethical Issues at Stake
Governmental incentives to influence population-related decisions are examined in terms of the ethical issues at stake. A typology of incentive schemes is presented, and ethical implications of various incentives are discussed. It is argued that, in a just scheme, a progressive, negative incentive or fee, calculated as a surtax on a modified income tax or an equivalent standard, would distribute burdens equally. A set of guidelines for ethical ev…
Doing What Comes Naturally
now employed to demonstrate the moral inadequacy, if not deliberate inhumanity, of what he calls the unnatural science of biology as projected by Bacon and Descartes. He is not the only observer to become uneasy about the philosophical heritage of the Enlightenment. A current list, which begins with Lewis Mumford and includes such different writers as Theodore Roszak, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Bernard Williams, has warned us against reductionism, l…
The Genetic Counselor: Responsible to Whom
'Experimental' Pregnancy
Case Studies in Bioethics: Brain Death: Welcome Definition… or Dangerous Judgment
Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age
9JL/tJT by ROBERT M. VEATCH ost of the ethical problems in the practice of medicine come up in cases where the medical condition or desired procecture itself presents no moral problem. Most day-today patient contacts are just not cases which are ethically exotic. For the woman who spends five hours in the clinic waiting room with two screaming children waiting to be seen for the flu, the flu is not a special moral problem; her wait is. When medic…
Informed Consent: When Can It Be Withdrawn
The Unexpected Chromosome… A Counselor's Dilemma
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Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal
From the first, professional ethics has been a hybrid. The Hippocratic Oath exudes that ambiguity. The scientific enterprise, which basically has universalistic tendencies, created a group with special knowledge and interests; eventually it took on a separate identity as a profession. Concern for the ethical point of view, which has the universalizability of normative statements as its foundation, is particularized by focusing on a specialized bo…
Human Experimentation: The Ethical Questions Persist
Brain Death Case
Case Studies in Bioethics: Who Should Pay for Smokers' Medical Care
Case Studies in Bioethics: Interns and Residents on Strike
Human Experimentation Committees: Professional or Representative
A dvisory and other review committees have emerged in the last decade as a major force in the scientific enterprise. Critics plead for increasingly stringent and inclusive review mechanisms while researchers see scientific progress grinding to a halt as ift' someone had deliberately set out to destroy all major research efforts. Human experimentation committees or committees to protect human subjects are particularly critical as a case study, fir…
Special Supplement: Biomedical Ethics and the Shadow of Nazism
Daniel Callahan, Arthur Caplan, Harold Edgar, Laurence McCullough, Tabitha M. Powledge, Margaret Steinfels, Peter Steinfels, Robert M. Veatch, Joseph Walsh, Joel Colton, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Milton Himmelfarb, Telford Taylor, Special Supplement: Biomedical Ethics and the Shadow of Nazism, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Aug., 1976), pp. 1-19
Case Studies in Bioethics: Should Patients Have Access to an Unapproved Drug?: Laetrile: Cancer Cure or Quack Remedy
David W. Crippen, Robert M. Veatch, Case Studies in Bioethics: Should Patients Have Access to an Unapproved Drug?: Laetrile: Cancer Cure or Quack Remedy?, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 6 (Dec., 1976), pp. 18-20
The Technical Criteria Fallacy
Labeling Laetrile
Medicine, Biology, and Ethics
T he teaching of medical and biological ethics is in a rather special position among ethics teaching efforts. Medical ethics in some form has been taught for centuries in some medical schools, in seminaries, and in clinical teaching. For the last decade a new type of teaching has proliferated and, just as important, a research literature has developed. Now Soviet medical journals carry on debates over the appropriate formats for teaching medical …
Ethics Teaching in Nursing Schools
Death and Dying: The Legislative Options
Case Studies in Bioethics: The Homosexual Husband and Physician Confidentiality
Hospital Ethics Committees: Is There a Role
Olin March 31, 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Karen Quinlan. In addition to the personal impact of that decision on those involved in the case, the court's opinion had a significant impact on the broader public. The proposal to establish what Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes called a hospital Ethics Committee gave a major impetus to a new trend. Before the decision, there had been a few attempts to establi…
Governmental Population Incentives: Ethical Issues at Stake
Governmental incentives to influence population-related decisions are examined in terms of the ethical issues at stake. A typology of incentive schemes is presented, and ethical implications of various incentives are discussed. It is argued that, in a just scheme, a progressive, negative incentive or fee, calculated as a surtax on a modified income tax or an equivalent standard, would distribute burdens equally. A set of guidelines for ethical ev…
Refusing Treatment in Nonterminal Illness
Medical Ethics Anthologies: Alternatives for Teaching
Psychology (51 works) · Political science (41 works) · Law (39 works) · Medicine (35 works) · Ethics in medical practice (31 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Business (12 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Engineering ethics (12 works)