Erica K Salter
Biographic Data
| ID | 9271030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica K Salter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica K |
| FAMILY NAME | Salter |
| SIGNATURE | SALTER E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9766-2200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Parents (of minors) are not surrogates
Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception
Legal precedent, professional‐society statements, and even many medical ethicists agree that some situations may call for a clinician to engage in an act of lying or nonlying deception of a patient or patient's family member. Still, the moral terrain of clinical deception is largely uncharted, and when it comes to practical guidance for clinicians, many might think that ethicists offer nothing more than the rule never to deceive. This guidance is…
“We have nothing left to bury.”
After miscarrying in the hospital at eleven weeks, a patient gratefully accepts the hospital’s offer to take advantage of a program for low‐income patients that provides burial for fetal remains and a memorial plaque for the gravesite. However, a hospital employee accidentally incinerates the remains, and the error is not discovered until after the ashes are discarded. Two commentaries offer opposing arguments in response to the question whether,…
Conflating Capacity & Authority
Whether adolescents should be allowed to make their own medical decisions has been a topic of discussion in bioethics for at least two decades now. Are adolescents sufficiently capacitated to make their own medical decisions? Is the mature‐minor doctrine, an uncommon legal exception to the rule of parental decision‐making authority, something we should expand or eliminate? Bioethicists have dealt with the curious liminality of adolescents—their b…
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Conflating Capacity & Authority
Whether adolescents should be allowed to make their own medical decisions has been a topic of discussion in bioethics for at least two decades now. Are adolescents sufficiently capacitated to make their own medical decisions? Is the mature‐minor doctrine, an uncommon legal exception to the rule of parental decision‐making authority, something we should expand or eliminate? Bioethicists have dealt with the curious liminality of adolescents—their b…
“We have nothing left to bury.”
After miscarrying in the hospital at eleven weeks, a patient gratefully accepts the hospital’s offer to take advantage of a program for low‐income patients that provides burial for fetal remains and a memorial plaque for the gravesite. However, a hospital employee accidentally incinerates the remains, and the error is not discovered until after the ashes are discarded. Two commentaries offer opposing arguments in response to the question whether,…
Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception
Legal precedent, professional‐society statements, and even many medical ethicists agree that some situations may call for a clinician to engage in an act of lying or nonlying deception of a patient or patient's family member. Still, the moral terrain of clinical deception is largely uncharted, and when it comes to practical guidance for clinicians, many might think that ethicists offer nothing more than the rule never to deceive. This guidance is…
Parents (of minors) are not surrogates
Psychology (4 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (2 works) · Nothing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works)