John A Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Neonatal Care for Premature Infants
Mark Miller, Brian S. Carter, Gerald. B. Merenstein, Helen Harrison, Amnon Goldworth, William A. Silverman, Nancy Akeson, Lucia D. Wocial, John A. Robertson, Neonatal Care for Premature Infants, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2005), pp. 4-7
Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights after Baby Doe
Contemporary ethical and legal norms hold that all human beings born alive should be treated equally, regardless of disability. Yet there is a strong sense that some lives are so diminished in capacity for interaction or experience that little good is achieved by providing medical treatments necessary to keep them alive. In addition, many persons believe that the parents who have the chief responsibility to provide care should have a dominant say…
Reproductive Ethics
Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Stem Cells
A couple may have a child to provide stem cells for another child. They may also use preimplantation testing--even, troubling though it is, prenatal testing and selective abortion--to ensure a close tissue match
Brca1screening in a woman with breast cancer
Death
The Dead Donor Rule
At Law
The creation of multiple embryos through ovarian stimulation has greatly improved the efficacy of in vitro fertilization (IVF). However, it has also led to conflicts over embryos that are not immediately implanted. With little legislation on these issues, the courts are now writing the rules for disposition of frozen embryos. It is now settled that the couple providing the gametes has dispositional authority over the embryos, and that both partie…
Innovations in infertility treatment and the rush to market
Parenthood in Modern Society
A view in favor of preserving procreative liberty
Symbolic Issues in Embryo Research
The embryo research controversy is a good reminder of the symbolic nature of many bioethical debates. Aside from persons who believe that personhood begins at conception, all parties in the debate agree that the preimplantation embryo is not yet an entity with interests or rights, and therefore can be discarded or used in research in ways that human research subjects cannot. Yet these same parties are also very careful to note that the preimplant…
The Ethics of Babymaking
The Case of the Switched Embryos
Recent reports of "switched" embryos and gametes place already\nfragile couples in unfortunate circumstances, raise vexing questions regarding\nsuch fundamental concepts as parenthood and reproduction, and cast a shadow on\nthe integrity of the infertility industry
Norplant and Irresponsible Reproduction
Procreation is a basic right, but it is not an absolute right. \nIts protected status does not relieve individuals of the moral obligation to\nreproduce responsibly. When they do not, public pressure arises to use\nreversible technologies such as Norplant to limit their reproduction. Unless\nvoluntarily chosen, however, the use of Norplant or other contraceptives can\nrarely be justified as a solution to problems of allegedly irresponsible\nrepro…
Reproduction and Rights
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Reproduction and Rights
We live in a liberal, rights-based society and gain immeasurably from the stability and freedom such a society offers. Yet some persons are highly critical of a rights-based approach to public issues. They think that an emphasis on rights ignores and political realities and hurts persons who lack the power or resources needed to exercise rights effectively. Dorothy Roberts's critical review of Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive …
Autonomy's Dominion
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The Question of Human Cloning
http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3562176
Children of Choice
Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486--these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. Through the lens of procreative liberty--meaning both the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control one's reproductive capacity--John Robertson, a leading legal bioethicist, analyzes the ethical, legal, and social controversies surrounding each major …
Autonomy's Dominion
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Prenatal Duties of Fathers and Mothers to Prevent Harm to Offspring
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The Surgical Solution
Second Thoughts on "Second Thoughts"
Tracy T. Vanto, Giles R. Scofield, Charles W. Burrows, John B. Dillon, F. Norman Higgs, Marvin Fish, John A. Robertson, Second Thoughts on "Second Thoughts", The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1992), pp. 41-42
Casey and the Resuscitation of Roe v. Wade
Casey v. Planned Parenthood Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 60 U.S. 4795 (1992) is a great victory for procreative liberty. The US Supreme Court reaffirmed the principe of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973): a women has a right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability, and thereafter when necessary to protect her life or health. The decision allows the states to impose regulations insuring that abortion decisions are "thoughtful and in…
Parenthood in Modern Society
Autonomy's Dominion
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Involuntary Euthanasia of Defective Newborns
Drugs and the Public
Medical Ethics in the Courtroom
blood and oxygen supply, thus the fetus. The fetus measured 21 centimeters from crown to rump, weighed 700 grams and, according to the prosecution it was between the 24th and 28th week of gestation and viable. Dr. Edelin's actions might have gone unnoticed if the district attorney's office had not been investigating alleged abuses in fetal experimentation at BCH. In late 1973, after four Boston doctors published research based on the use of dead …
Involuntary Euthanasia of Defective Newborns
Compensating Injured Research Subjects
O ne reason for public concern about human experimentation is the awareness that research subjects in the past have suffered physical injury, pain, or even death. Although Institutional Review Boards and informed consent may minimize intentional abuse of subjects, they cannot eliminate subject injury altogether. Injuries will occur because of human error, ignorance about drug or treatment effects, or fraud or abuse. While the frequency of researc…
Law and the Life Sciences
In vitro Conception and Harm to the Unborn
Ten Ways to Improve IRBs
rotection of research subjects in the United States has been vested in a decentralized peer review system, institutional review boards (IRBs), which examine research proposals to assure conformity with ethical and legal requirements for consent and risk-benefit assessment. Initiated in 1966 for Public Health Service grants, the system has been extended to all Department of Health, Education and Welfare research, and to all research, publicly or p…
Research on the Brain-Dead
Under existing law and regulations, research procedures presenting substantial risk and offering no benefit for the subject may not be performed on critically ill incompetent subjects, even with the consent of a guardian. Yet such research may lead to knowledge that would benefit future patients in similar situations. One solution proposed for this problem has been to conduct research on critically ill patients when they become brain-dead. Should…
Dire warnings and baseless fears
Dilemma in Danville
T he scene: the delivery room of a hospital in Danville, Illinois. The date: May 6, 1981. The mother had been in labor for seven hours. Because twins were expected, two doctors were in attendancethe family doctor and a local obstetrician. The first baby was born bruised and blue, with the cord wound around his head. Ventilate, the anesthesiologist said. But the obstetrician, seeing that the mother had delivered Siamese twins joined at the waist w…
The Judicial Conference Experiment
Ethical Review of Social Experiments
Taking Consent Seriously
Surrogate Mothers
A law professor examines the legal, psychological, social, and\nethical issues that arise in surrogate mothering and the problems that this\nprocedure may create for the biological and adoptive parents, the child, and\nthe state. Robertson considers the central issue of this and other\n"collaborative reproduction" methods to be the extent and nature of third\nparty involvement rather than the deliberate separation of biologic and social\nparentag…
Do the Perils of Patenting Outweigh the Plusses
Pregnancy and Prenatal Harm to Offspring
Ethical and legal traditions recognize prenatal duties to avoid harm to offspring. However, applying the harm principle to pregnancy requires a careful balancing of a baby's welfare with a pregnant woman's interest in liberty and bodily integrity. In the case of maternal PKU the mother can prevent harm to her baby by returning to the admittedly unpleasant diet that prevented her from being retarded. Informing, counseling, and access to medical ca…
Rights, Symbolism, and Public Policy in Fetal Tissue Transplants
The architecture of the fetal tissue transplant controversy is\nsimilar to that of many bioethical debates, with a novel twist because of the\ncontested status of the fetus and abortion. Respect for the needs of sick\npatients appears to conflict with respect for prenatal human life and larger\nsocietal concerns
A Response to Burtchaell
Davis
Resolving Disputes over Frozen Embryos
The relation between respect for family and reproductive choice and use of IVF technology is in dispute in recent legal cases on the disposition of frozen embryos. Couples in IVF programs should be encouraged to stipulate in advance binding instructions regarding the disposition of such embryos
The Fetal Tissue Debate on Complicity
Symbols and Rights
Cruzan
In its September/October 1990 issue, the Hastings Center Report published six brief essays with a short introduction by Courtney S. Campbell under the collective title of "Cruzan: clear and convincing?" These articles present a range of responses from participants, parents, constitutional scholars, and caregivers to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (June 25, 1990). Legal scholar John A. Robert…
Second Thoughts on Living Wills
Advance directives such as living wills are attractive in that they give us a sense of control over our futures. But they also tend to obscure conflicts between a patient's competent wishes and later, incompetent interests. They allow caregivers to avoid evaluating quality of life in assessing the best interests of incompetent patients
Dred Scott Revisited
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