Robert D Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9008-7696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incorporating Spirituality into Patient Care
Religion and Medicine The histories of medicine and religion have been interwoven for centuries. Many faith-based communities, organizations, and agencies established hospitals and hospices as part of their ministry. In the modern era, however, the two became increasingly separated as medicine became more scientific, developing what became known as the biomedical model in the mid-nineteenth century. During this period of secularization of medicin…
Autonomy, Conscience, and Professional Obligation
“No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.”Thomas Jefferson, speech to the New London Methodists, 1809 [1]
Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions
Professional, practical, clinical and cultural obligations should guide decision making when a funding agency restricts the types of counseling and advice it allows medical professionals to dispense. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Faith-Based Decisions
Physicians need to understand the resources available to them to serve the sometimes conflicting needs of the pediatric patients' best interest and the religious beliefs of the patients' parents. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Christian Ethics and the Delivery of Health Care
Refusals Involving Requests
Madam: In highlighting the difference between patient refusals and patient requests, Gert, Bernat, and Mogielnicki (HCRJuly-August 1994) have contributed to the ever-pressing task of clarifying those vague and ambiguous terms and concepts (such as choice) into which our moral rhetoric frequently retreats. In delineating these concepts, they help us to clarify the moral obligations of physicians for those situations in which hon
Ethics Committees in Small Hospitals
Ethics committees at small hospitals confront most of the same ethical dilemmas present at large hospitals, but must usually deal with them with fewer resources and less access to recognized expertise. Nonetheless small hospital committees can function effectively in the areas of education, policy deliberation, and case consultation. The development of ethics committees at two small Vermont hospitals is described, noting some of the problems asso…
Reflections on Totalitarianism, Leading to Reflections on Two Ways of Theorizing
The Time Motif in Machiavelli
The Time Motif in Machiavelli
Reflections on Totalitarianism, Leading to Reflections on Two Ways of Theorizing
Ethics Committees in Small Hospitals
Ethics committees at small hospitals confront most of the same ethical dilemmas present at large hospitals, but must usually deal with them with fewer resources and less access to recognized expertise. Nonetheless small hospital committees can function effectively in the areas of education, policy deliberation, and case consultation. The development of ethics committees at two small Vermont hospitals is described, noting some of the problems asso…
Refusals Involving Requests
Madam: In highlighting the difference between patient refusals and patient requests, Gert, Bernat, and Mogielnicki (HCRJuly-August 1994) have contributed to the ever-pressing task of clarifying those vague and ambiguous terms and concepts (such as choice) into which our moral rhetoric frequently retreats. In delineating these concepts, they help us to clarify the moral obligations of physicians for those situations in which hon
Christian Ethics and the Delivery of Health Care
Faith-Based Decisions
Physicians need to understand the resources available to them to serve the sometimes conflicting needs of the pediatric patients' best interest and the religious beliefs of the patients' parents. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions
Professional, practical, clinical and cultural obligations should guide decision making when a funding agency restricts the types of counseling and advice it allows medical professionals to dispense. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Autonomy, Conscience, and Professional Obligation
“No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.”Thomas Jefferson, speech to the New London Methodists, 1809 [1]
Incorporating Spirituality into Patient Care
Religion and Medicine The histories of medicine and religion have been interwoven for centuries. Many faith-based communities, organizations, and agencies established hospitals and hospices as part of their ministry. In the modern era, however, the two became increasingly separated as medicine became more scientific, developing what became known as the biomedical model in the mid-nineteenth century. During this period of secularization of medicin…
Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ethics in medical practice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)