ARTHUR ZUCKER
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ARTHUR ZUCKER |
| GIVEN NAMES | ARTHUR |
| FAMILY NAME | ZUCKER |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCKER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 82 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical ethics as therapy
In this paper, the author examines a style of teaching for a medical ethics course designed for medical students in their clinical years, a style that some believe conflicts with a commitment to analytic philosophy. The author discusses (1) why some find a conflict, (2) why there really is no conflict, and (3) the approach to medical ethics through narratives. The author will also argue that basing medical ethics on the use of narratives has prob…
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Death and Language
Brock Haussamen argues inventively that there are features of language that are the source of our belief in an afterlife, that something deep about language prevents us from talking about the dead as if they are really dead. He speaks of "language as forcing." In this response to Haussamen's article, the author attempts to show that Haussamen's arguments and examples are not strong enough to make his point. The major suggestion is that there is m…
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In 1987, the mother of a severely retarded woman (Cindy) petitioned a Pennsylvania court to have her daughter sterilized. The mother said that she noticed male patients taking a sexual interest in her daughter, who is estimated to have the mental capacities of a 5-year-old. The crucial problem for the retarded woman was severe epilepsy, which could be life-threatening if combined with a pregnancy. Because Pennsylvania law requires the appointing …
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Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
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Angela Holder ends her Journal of Pediatrics article, “Parents, Courts, and Refusal of Treatment” with the summary sentence, “In cases involving high risks or choices of therapy ... courts do seem to al- low parents latitude to make their own decisions” (1). On the other hand, Henry Hyde has said “... a question of life or death for a born person ought to belong to nobody. ... The Constitution ought The relevant history of the Baby Doe debate is …
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Quinlan, Saikewicz, and Brother Fox are names that remind us that people in different states of competence with different sorts of histories have a right to die when the alternative is seemingly endless and useless prolongation of vegetative life. Baby Doe and the Baby Doe regulations questioned our ability to judge quality of life for “defective” infants. Perhaps there is a life not worth living for adults, but can we make the same claim for inf…
To the marriage of true minds
Ethics and law have influenced the practice and the teaching of medicine. This paper traces some of that influence by examining the concepts of paternalism and privacy. Some surprising ways that philosophy has affected medicine are also detailed. What is finally revealed is the value-laden nature of medicine, ethics, and law
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Department of law and ethics
With this issue we announce a change in the editorship of the Department of Law and Ethics. Because of the pressure of other professional responsibilities, Walter Probert and Ron Carson, under whose guidance this department was established, have asked to be relieved of this responsibility. We accept their request with regret, and acknowledge: with thanks the work that they have done. We are proud to present to the readers of Death Studies the new…
Department of law and ethics
Elizabeth Bouvia and the California Courts are giving continuity to “Law and Ethics”. Superior Court Judge Jack Newman appointed two physicians, D. H. Catlin and D. A. Gorelick, to evaluate the differences of opinion on Ms. Bouvia's medical management. Their report said in part that she “has not received comprehensive pain control treatment and that she had not received any help in dealing with the 'psychological and social aspects of pain contro…
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Surrogacy is being challenged. A restrictive abortion law is struck down—again. Unapproved gene-splicing experiments in Montana are dealt with by the EPA. Approved trials for the drug, THA, in the hopes of treating Alzheimer's disease, will begin soon
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals has found that more than 40 percent of hospitals and nursing homes have no formal guidelines for the withholding of resuscitation. As a result of this and as a result of the emphasis on patients rights, the Commission has proposed that all accredited hospitals must have a clearly stated policy on withholding resuscitation
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In early December of 1987, Britain came to some conclusions concerning issues of fertilization and embryology. In passing, they scooped the New Jersey Supreme Court finding on Baby M. The British government proposed a licensing authority to oversee fertilization and embryo research. It was suggested that Parliament be given the authority to decide on whether and how much human embryo research should be allowed
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A federal district judge, Susan Getzendanner, has found twice against the AMA: First, she found that the group had “engaged in a conspiracy to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession.” Second, she found that the AMA had been “restricting, regulating or impeding its members from associating with chiropractors.” She issued a permanent injunction against the AMA's doing this. The AMA is now required to say that it is ethical for a physicia…
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The January 7, 1988 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine has two interesting articles concerning what might generally be termed euthanasia. The article titled Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support represents a consensus among members of the Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics. Its main authors have written a fine example of applied ethics (1)
Davy Refuted Lavoisier Not Lakatos
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The French government commissioned a report on which it could base laws aimed at controlling the frontiers of biomedical research. The report is entitled, “The Life Sciences and the Rights of Man.” The desirability of such a law (or laws) was made evident last year when a surgeon was accused of performing experiments on a brain dead patient. The new laws would clearly make such experimentation illegal
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This issue's Department of Law and Ethics was written by Gershon B. Grunfeld of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The need for the use of anencephalic newborns as organ donors is raised in two distinct ways. First is the fact that there are many chronically ill infants and children who may benefit from organ transplant, while there is a relative scarcity of available donors. Second is the desire of some paren…
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If someone discovers during routine medical studies that I have some special factors in my blood that might prove useful (and profitable) to medical researchers, then I would certainly have the right to want to be paid for the use of my factors. No one would think this odd. I might not be particularly praiseworthy, but that is another issue
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Is There a Constitutional Right to Health Care? William Curran (1) points out that the Supreme Court has twice held that state and federal legislatures do not have legal obligations to fund abortions for the indigent. The cases were Maher v. Roe and Harris v. McRae decided respectively in 1977 and 1980 (1). In the face of these decisions, he discusses a case decided in 1987 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. According to Curra…
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In Florida, Dr. Peter Rosier was acquitted of first degree murder in the death of his wife. She was terminally ill with cancer and had tried unsuccessfully to kill herself. Dr. Rosier gave her morphine with the intention of its killing her, but it failed. Her stepfather wound up smothering her with his hand. Aside from the bizarre and unfortunate manner of Mrs. Rosier's death, two things are noteworthy about this case: (a) the prosecution of some…
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The Cruzan case has been decided by the Supreme Court. On the same day, it released two abortion decisions. Because the general topics of euthanasia and abortion are clearly related, the two decisions are discussed together
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The Supreme Court decided Webster v. Reproductive Health Services on July 3, 1989. The Missouri statute which the Supreme Court upheld, had as its preamble that the life of each human being begins at conception. It went on to stipulate that (1) unborn children be provided all the rights of other (adult) persons; (2) prior to performing an abortion, a physician must make every effort to ascertain the viability of the fetus if that physician has re…
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