Harold Braswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Braswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Braswell |
| SIGNATURE | BRASWELL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8469-1969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”
Many bioethicists have recently shifted from using “physician-assisted suicide” (PAS) to “medical aid-in-dying” (MAID) to refer to the act of voluntarily hastening one’s death with the assistance of a medical provider. This shift was made to obscure the practice’s connection to “suicide.” However, as the charge of “suicide” is fundamental to arguments against the practice, “MAID” can only be used by its proponents. The result has been the fragmen…
Ethicizing history. Bioethical representations of Nazi medicine
The article presents and analyzes different approaches of U.S. bioethicists in comprehending the Nazi medical crimes after 1945. The account is divided into two sections: one dealing with discussions on research ethics and the Nuremberg Code up until the 1970s and the other ranging from the 1970s to the present and highlighting bioethics' engagement with Nazi analogies. The portrayal of different bioethical scholars, institutions, and documents—m…
Instacash
Some medical students leverage their medical student status for profit as social media influencers on platforms such as Instagram. Depending on the size of their following and the brand they are promoting, students can make thousands of dollars per year by advertising products ranging from scrubs to protein powder to mattresses. Yet, they receive few tools as part of their education to help them understand how to reconcile their professional obli…
Removing a Disabled Person from Her Treasured Independent Living
Ms. X is a person with cerebral palsy and schizophrenia. She has intractable bedsores that are a result of her immobility and to poor wound care related to her delusional thinking. Despite intensive community support, the wounds have worsened to the point that she has needed multiple hospitalizations to prevent systemic sepsis, a life‐threatening condition. She is capable of placement decisions and wishes for independence at home but is incapable…
David Clark, Cicely Saunders
David Clark’s biography of Cicely Saunders is a great book about a great person. Building on the earlier work of Shirley Du Boulay, but expanding it through his own voluminous research—including ‘twenty-nine recorded conversations’ with Dame Cicely herself—Clark has given us the most thorough portrait available of the founder of what came to be known as the modern hospice movement (p.4). The result is a model of biography and a deep look into the…
A Death of One's Own
A Death of One's Own, by Jared Stark, is a challenging intervention, from a comparative literature scholar, in legal and bioethical debates about the so-called “right to die.” Though clearly based in relevant bioethical scholarship, it is highly resistant to being assimilated within the existing frameworks in which euthanasia is discussed. This resistance is on purpose, for it is only by unsettling these frameworks that a robust understanding of …
The Crisis of US Hospice Care
Old and Sick in America
Reviewed by: Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System by Muriel R. Gillick Harold Braswell Muriel R. Gillick. Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xxii + 300 pp. $29.95 (978-1-4696-3524-8). Growing old can, even in the best circumstances, be disorienting. But in America today, the circumstances in which we age are far from best. Old a…
Emily K. Abel, The Inevitable Hour
Emily K. Abel's The Inevitable Hour examines the care of the dying in the United States from 1868 to 1960. Abel argues that the late nineteenth century saw a change in the care of the dying in the USA. Prior to this period, death had been understood within a larger Christian worldview that considered it to be a regrettable, but inevitable component of life. As such, the care of the dying was considered essential to both familial and communal life…
My Two Moms
Dominant Western discourses of motherhood have depicted disabled women as incapable of being mothers. In contrast to these representations, recent literature in disability studies has argued that disabled women can provide maternal care and should therefore retain custody over their children. This literature is commendable, but its emphasis on custodial rights excludes from the category of “mother” those disabled women who cannot maintain child c…
Suicide, social integration, and masculinity in the U.S. military
Taking Representation Seriously
My Two Moms
Dominant Western discourses of motherhood have depicted disabled women as incapable of being mothers. In contrast to these representations, recent literature in disability studies has argued that disabled women can provide maternal care and should therefore retain custody over their children. This literature is commendable, but its emphasis on custodial rights excludes from the category of “mother” those disabled women who cannot maintain child c…
Taking Representation Seriously
Suicide, social integration, and masculinity in the U.S. military
Emily K. Abel, The Inevitable Hour
Emily K. Abel's The Inevitable Hour examines the care of the dying in the United States from 1868 to 1960. Abel argues that the late nineteenth century saw a change in the care of the dying in the USA. Prior to this period, death had been understood within a larger Christian worldview that considered it to be a regrettable, but inevitable component of life. As such, the care of the dying was considered essential to both familial and communal life…
My Two Moms
Dominant Western discourses of motherhood have depicted disabled women as incapable of being mothers. In contrast to these representations, recent literature in disability studies has argued that disabled women can provide maternal care and should therefore retain custody over their children. This literature is commendable, but its emphasis on custodial rights excludes from the category of “mother” those disabled women who cannot maintain child c…
The Crisis of US Hospice Care
Old and Sick in America
Reviewed by: Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System by Muriel R. Gillick Harold Braswell Muriel R. Gillick. Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xxii + 300 pp. $29.95 (978-1-4696-3524-8). Growing old can, even in the best circumstances, be disorienting. But in America today, the circumstances in which we age are far from best. Old a…
Instacash
Some medical students leverage their medical student status for profit as social media influencers on platforms such as Instagram. Depending on the size of their following and the brand they are promoting, students can make thousands of dollars per year by advertising products ranging from scrubs to protein powder to mattresses. Yet, they receive few tools as part of their education to help them understand how to reconcile their professional obli…
Removing a Disabled Person from Her Treasured Independent Living
Ms. X is a person with cerebral palsy and schizophrenia. She has intractable bedsores that are a result of her immobility and to poor wound care related to her delusional thinking. Despite intensive community support, the wounds have worsened to the point that she has needed multiple hospitalizations to prevent systemic sepsis, a life‐threatening condition. She is capable of placement decisions and wishes for independence at home but is incapable…
David Clark, Cicely Saunders
David Clark’s biography of Cicely Saunders is a great book about a great person. Building on the earlier work of Shirley Du Boulay, but expanding it through his own voluminous research—including ‘twenty-nine recorded conversations’ with Dame Cicely herself—Clark has given us the most thorough portrait available of the founder of what came to be known as the modern hospice movement (p.4). The result is a model of biography and a deep look into the…
A Death of One's Own
A Death of One's Own, by Jared Stark, is a challenging intervention, from a comparative literature scholar, in legal and bioethical debates about the so-called “right to die.” Though clearly based in relevant bioethical scholarship, it is highly resistant to being assimilated within the existing frameworks in which euthanasia is discussed. This resistance is on purpose, for it is only by unsettling these frameworks that a robust understanding of …
Ethicizing history. Bioethical representations of Nazi medicine
The article presents and analyzes different approaches of U.S. bioethicists in comprehending the Nazi medical crimes after 1945. The account is divided into two sections: one dealing with discussions on research ethics and the Nuremberg Code up until the 1970s and the other ranging from the 1970s to the present and highlighting bioethics' engagement with Nazi analogies. The portrayal of different bioethical scholars, institutions, and documents—m…
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”
Many bioethicists have recently shifted from using “physician-assisted suicide” (PAS) to “medical aid-in-dying” (MAID) to refer to the act of voluntarily hastening one’s death with the assistance of a medical provider. This shift was made to obscure the practice’s connection to “suicide.” However, as the charge of “suicide” is fundamental to arguments against the practice, “MAID” can only be used by its proponents. The result has been the fragmen…
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