Joyce Bermel
Biographic Data
| ID | 9271110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Bermel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Bermel |
| SIGNATURE | BERMEL J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Confusion Over the Language of the Baby Doe Regulations
Once an Unwanted Surrogate Baby, Christopher Ray Stiver Turns Three
Organs For Sale
The Pittsburgh Press (3-10 Nov 1985) reported a 23-nation investigation of an international market in the buying, selling, and distribution of kidneys. Among the practices cited are the selling abroad of U.S.-donated kidneys by American companies, line jumping by wealthy foreigners at U.S. transplant centers, and an active trade in buying organs from live donors in several countries. To head off the entrenchment of an allocation system based on m…
Florida Sends Mixed Messages on Tube Feeding
Caring for Newborns
At the Center
Ethics Consultants
Hand‐Me‐Down Devices
Selecting a Sex Before Conception
A brief summary is provided of a paper on the social implications of progress in the development of preconception methods of sex selection. The paper, "Influence of sex pre-selection on global populations," by B.C. Bhattacharya, E.F. Greenwald, and C.F. Westoff, appears in a recent report from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, Human Fertility, Health and Food. Its authors predict that sex preselection techniques may be used withi…
In Minn. and Mass., No Transplants for the Sickest
The Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs and the Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplantation have recommended independently that, given the cost of organ transplants and the shortage of available organs, the selection of eligible recipients should be based on the estimated length and quality of life that the transplant can provide. When not enough organs are available, final selection from those eligible should be by a random process wi…
Very Sick Patients
At the Center
Health Care Decisions
A grass roots effort known as Oregon Health Decisions is involving Oregonians in local discussion groups and town meetings, preparatory to a statewide meeting on bioethical issues that is scheduled for October 1984. Oregon citizens have also been polled about particular issues. According to early tabulations, most of them agree that patients' rights to choose or refuse treatment need better safeguards and that Oregon's health system should provid…
Workers' Health
A study by Diana Chapman Walsh for the Hastings Center (see "Corporate smoking policies: a review and analysis," Journal of Occupational Medicine, Jan 1984) found that employers' attitudes towards smoking are ambivalent. Corporate, as well as public, policy is influenced by relationships with the tobacco industry. The coercive nature of effective antismoking programs raises the ethical question of what restrictions should be placed on individual …
At the Center
At the Centre
Guidelines For Nursing Homes Raise Some Questions
In June 1983, a task force appointed by the Minnesota Board on Aging issued a set of guidelines designed to improve the process of making decisions about when to provide "supportive care," i.e., "care and treatment to preserve comfort, hygiene and dignity, but not to prolong life," to patients in Minnesota nursing homes. The guidelines have been criticized by some groups for not doing enough to protect the interests of patients
The Birth of a Feminist Sperm Bank
The opening of a feminist-oriented sperm bank in Oakland, California, is reported. The increased demand for artificial insemination by single women is briefly discussed in terms of the legal and ethical questions it raises; its potential effects on the institution of marriage and the family; and whether such issues should be a matter of public policy or individual conscience
Health Care Costs
Residents of the Des Moines, Iowa area were surveyed twice--before and after an intensive campaign of citizen education in 1982--to ascertain their views on cutting health care costs. Their willingness to forego some services to control costs increased after the educational campaign, but the vast majority of people remained opposed to cutting back care for the poor, the elderly, or patients with critical illnesses. Rationing resources and trimmin…
Update on Genetic Screening
Recent developments in prenatal diagnosis and screening for congenital defects are summarized. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the unrestricted sale of alpha-fetoprotein test kits to medical personnel and laboratories. Critics of the FDA action fear that unregulated use of the kits, which detect the possibility of neural tube defects, will lead to abortions of normal fetuses if follow-up procedures are not conducted to confirm the d…
Health Hazards in Hospitals
The issue of responsibility for protecting hospital workers from hazardous materials is discussed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reported to be moving very slowly to tighten its regulatory standards for hospitals
The Phoenix Memo
The Phoenix, Arizona, Area Indian Health Service (IHS) has decided to stop covering renal dialysis or skilled nursing care for new patients. Dr. David Ogden, president of the National Kidney Foundation, charges that the decision constitutes an unacceptable form of rationing lifesaving care for one subset of the population. The move has also prompted speculation about further cutbacks in IHS services, raising questions about who should be responsi…
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Case Studies
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Should Physicians Prepare for War
Joyce Bermel, Jay C. Bisgard, James T. Doherty, H. Jack Geiger, James T. Johnson, Thomas H. Murray, Should Physicians Prepare for War?, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 1982), pp. 15-21
Guidelines For Nursing Homes Raise Some Questions
In June 1983, a task force appointed by the Minnesota Board on Aging issued a set of guidelines designed to improve the process of making decisions about when to provide "supportive care," i.e., "care and treatment to preserve comfort, hygiene and dignity, but not to prolong life," to patients in Minnesota nursing homes. The guidelines have been criticized by some groups for not doing enough to protect the interests of patients
The Birth of a Feminist Sperm Bank
The opening of a feminist-oriented sperm bank in Oakland, California, is reported. The increased demand for artificial insemination by single women is briefly discussed in terms of the legal and ethical questions it raises; its potential effects on the institution of marriage and the family; and whether such issues should be a matter of public policy or individual conscience
Health Care Costs
Residents of the Des Moines, Iowa area were surveyed twice--before and after an intensive campaign of citizen education in 1982--to ascertain their views on cutting health care costs. Their willingness to forego some services to control costs increased after the educational campaign, but the vast majority of people remained opposed to cutting back care for the poor, the elderly, or patients with critical illnesses. Rationing resources and trimmin…
Update on Genetic Screening
Recent developments in prenatal diagnosis and screening for congenital defects are summarized. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the unrestricted sale of alpha-fetoprotein test kits to medical personnel and laboratories. Critics of the FDA action fear that unregulated use of the kits, which detect the possibility of neural tube defects, will lead to abortions of normal fetuses if follow-up procedures are not conducted to confirm the d…
Health Hazards in Hospitals
The issue of responsibility for protecting hospital workers from hazardous materials is discussed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reported to be moving very slowly to tighten its regulatory standards for hospitals
The Phoenix Memo
The Phoenix, Arizona, Area Indian Health Service (IHS) has decided to stop covering renal dialysis or skilled nursing care for new patients. Dr. David Ogden, president of the National Kidney Foundation, charges that the decision constitutes an unacceptable form of rationing lifesaving care for one subset of the population. The move has also prompted speculation about further cutbacks in IHS services, raising questions about who should be responsi…
At the Center
At the Center
Health Care Decisions
A grass roots effort known as Oregon Health Decisions is involving Oregonians in local discussion groups and town meetings, preparatory to a statewide meeting on bioethical issues that is scheduled for October 1984. Oregon citizens have also been polled about particular issues. According to early tabulations, most of them agree that patients' rights to choose or refuse treatment need better safeguards and that Oregon's health system should provid…
Workers' Health
A study by Diana Chapman Walsh for the Hastings Center (see "Corporate smoking policies: a review and analysis," Journal of Occupational Medicine, Jan 1984) found that employers' attitudes towards smoking are ambivalent. Corporate, as well as public, policy is influenced by relationships with the tobacco industry. The coercive nature of effective antismoking programs raises the ethical question of what restrictions should be placed on individual …
At the Center
At the Centre
Ethics Consultants
Hand‐Me‐Down Devices
Selecting a Sex Before Conception
A brief summary is provided of a paper on the social implications of progress in the development of preconception methods of sex selection. The paper, "Influence of sex pre-selection on global populations," by B.C. Bhattacharya, E.F. Greenwald, and C.F. Westoff, appears in a recent report from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, Human Fertility, Health and Food. Its authors predict that sex preselection techniques may be used withi…
In Minn. and Mass., No Transplants for the Sickest
The Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs and the Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplantation have recommended independently that, given the cost of organ transplants and the shortage of available organs, the selection of eligible recipients should be based on the estimated length and quality of life that the transplant can provide. When not enough organs are available, final selection from those eligible should be by a random process wi…
Very Sick Patients
At the Center
Confusion Over the Language of the Baby Doe Regulations
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