Carol Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 4179126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hastings Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diagnosing Shosha
In recent decades, physicians have diagnosed fictional and non-fictional characters through portraits, biographies and writing. We argue that such an exercise can be beneficial for a uniquely health humanities reason-better understanding of our current world and the social determinants of health. Drawing on the method of health and social justice studies, we explore the character of Shosha, who appears repeatedly in the writings of Nobel Prize wi…
Vulnerable Children in a Dual Epidemic
Two epidemics—Covid‐19 and opioid use disorder (OUD) —are creating short‐ and long‐term mental and physical health risks for vulnerable children and adolescents. Information about the risks to children from exposure to the coronavirus is still fragmentary, but even many healthy children are not getting appropriate health care, such as vaccinations or monitoring of developmental milestones during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Children living in poverty a…
Who's Responsible for Granny
When a disaster occurs at home or abroad, Americans give generously, and volunteers support many important community services. Yet proposals to spend taxpayer money on services for people who are poor, hungry, homeless, or just frail and elderly are resisted vigorously
What do care recipients owe their caregivers
The Cultures of Caregiving
Every Picture Tells a Story … and Then Some
Young Adult Caregivers
Objectives. We examined the prevalence, characteristics, and responsibilities of young adults aged 18 to 25 years who are caregivers for ill, elderly, or disabled family members or friends. Methods. We analyzed 2 previously published national studies (from 1998 and 2004) of adult caregivers. Results. Young adult caregivers make up between 12% and 18% of the total number of adult caregivers. Over half are male, and the average age is 21. Most youn…
The Limitations of “Vulnerability” as a Protection for Human Research Participants
Vulnerability is one of the least examined concepts in research ethics. Vulnerability was linked in the Belmont Report to questions of justice in the selection of subjects. Regulations and policy documents regarding the ethical conduct of research have focused on vulnerability in terms of limitations of the capacity to provide informed consent. Other interpretations of vulnerability have emphasized unequal power relationships between politically …
Case Study
This case study focuses on the complexities of an adolescent serving as the interpreter for her gravely ill father
One Loss May Hide Another
At a railroad crossing at the edge of a Masai village in the heart of Kenya, the late poet Kenneth Koch saw a puzzling sign: One train may hide another. It turned out to be a warning: Before you cross the tracks, make sure the first train did not block your view of another train coming straight at you. The sign led Koch to ponder its deeper meaning. In his poem One Train May Hide Another, he describes the many ways in which one event, one emotion…
Is Suffering Good
When the Caregiver Needs Care
Objectives. This study examined the characteristics, activities, and challenges of high-risk informal caregivers. Methods. Telephone interviews were conducted with a nationally representative cross-section of 1002 informal caregivers. Vulnerable caregivers with poor health or a serious health condition were compared with nonvulnerable caregivers. Results. Thirty-six percent of caregivers were vulnerable. Compared with nonvulnerable caregivers, vu…
The Cost of "Informal" Care
Agraphic designer starts her own business, which requires most of her time and energy. Her mother, who has become increasingly withdrawn, anxious, and ill, needs to be taken to her doctor's appointments, can't keep track of her medical bills and insurance forms, and can no longer stay by herself. Meanwhile, as her aunt too becomes confused and paranoid, the graphic designer, overwhelmed by her responsibilities to both, has no time for her clients
The Economic Value Of Informal Caregiving
This study explores the current market value of the care provided by unpaid family members and friends to ill and disabled adults. Using large, national data sets we estimate that the national economic value of informal caregiving was $196 billion in 1997. This figure dwarfs national spending for formal home health care ($32 billion) and nursing home care ($83 billion). Estimates for five states also are presented. This study broadens the issue o…
Home Sweet Hospital
Family caregivers, often called "informal" caregivers, are the unpaid relatives, partners, or close friends who provide directly or manage the health care for individuals who are seriously ill or disabled. As a result of changes in the American health care system, family caregivers confront increasing responsibilities, burdens, and challenges. However, there are limits to family responsibility for caregiving, and whereas families may take the fir…
Placebos and HIV Lessons Learned
Lessons is a popular phrase in international circles. Typically used to sum up the results of a review of experiences, it has a reassuring pedagogic tone. The students have done their home- (or field-) work, and have acquired the relevant knowledge. Presumably any mistakes they might have made in the course of their studies will not be repeated, because the have been learned. The real world of international clinical trials differs significantly f…
The Ghosts of Epidemics Past, Present, and Future
What's on TV Tonight? Let's Watch the Ethics Committee Meeting
Building a New Consensus
Carol Levine, Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Robert J. Levine, Building a New Consensus: Ethical Principles and Policies for Clinical Research on HIV / AIDS, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 13, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Apr., 1991), pp. 1-17
Women and HIV / Aids Research
Despite the prevalence of HIV disease among women, drug trials to date have enrolled mostly men. In drug trial recruitment, HIV-infected women typically suffer quadruple jeopardy: first, they may b
Protocols That Exclude Women
Are There Ethical Exceptions
Hospitals Today
At the Center
The Community Blood Supply and Patients' Choice
Is the concept of a community blood supply, in which strangers give\nand receive blood, still viable? Even though the risk of contracting AIDS\nfrom transfusions is relatively small, the consequences for an affected\nindividual are catastrophic. Part of the debate rests on empirical grounds:\nIs blood from strangers more likely to be contaminated than blood from one's\nfamily and friends? But there is another aspect: On grounds of autonomy,\nshou…
Young Adult Caregivers
Objectives. We examined the prevalence, characteristics, and responsibilities of young adults aged 18 to 25 years who are caregivers for ill, elderly, or disabled family members or friends. Methods. We analyzed 2 previously published national studies (from 1998 and 2004) of adult caregivers. Results. Young adult caregivers make up between 12% and 18% of the total number of adult caregivers. Over half are male, and the average age is 21. Most youn…
When the Caregiver Needs Care
Objectives. This study examined the characteristics, activities, and challenges of high-risk informal caregivers. Methods. Telephone interviews were conducted with a nationally representative cross-section of 1002 informal caregivers. Vulnerable caregivers with poor health or a serious health condition were compared with nonvulnerable caregivers. Results. Thirty-six percent of caregivers were vulnerable. Compared with nonvulnerable caregivers, vu…
Home Sweet Hospital
Family caregivers, often called "informal" caregivers, are the unpaid relatives, partners, or close friends who provide directly or manage the health care for individuals who are seriously ill or disabled. As a result of changes in the American health care system, family caregivers confront increasing responsibilities, burdens, and challenges. However, there are limits to family responsibility for caregiving, and whereas families may take the fir…
Home Dialysis and the Medicare Gap
Hospital Ethics Committees
The First Ban
Ethics, Justice, and International Health
Sharing Secrets
Dialysis or Transplant
Case Studies in Bioethics
Depo-Provera and Contraceptive Risk
Although the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone acetate) is currently being used by 1.25 million women worldwide and is available commercially in over 60 countries approval for marketing in the U.S. has not been granted after 12 years of debate. Possibly the final installment in what has become a controversy will probably take place later this year when a special FDA board of inquiry meets to consider the issue. More is at…
Ethics and Health Cost Containment
An Act of Greed
Studying Hunger in the Warsaw Ghetto
And in California
Suffer the Children
At the Center
Depo-Provera
This writer agrees with Carol Levine that the issue involving depo-provera is both complex and confusing. Comment is offered on some of the conclusions reached by Levine in her article, "Depo-Provera and Contraceptive Risk: A Case Study of Values and Conflicts". In the discussion of risks and benefits, problems with administration of estrogens are rarely recommended for depo-provera users. The metabolic side-effects which are identified are also …
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