John C Fletcher

Dados Biográficos

ID308917
NOMEJohn C Fletcher
PRENOMESJohn C
SOBRENOMEFletcher
ASSINATURAFLETCHER J C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Virginia
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES25
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1971
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2004
ÍNDICE H3

  • Bioethics in America

    John C FletcherARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    M. L. Tina Stevens's book aims to explain how and why bioethics became prominent in American culture. These questions bear sharp scrutiny, given the growth of bioethics as a field, its prominence in political deliberations, and the attention given to it by the media

  • Ethical and social issues in prenatal sex selection

    Open AccessDorothy C Wertz, John C FletcherARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1998Citada por: 11Referências: 10

  • How Do Americans Want to Die? A Factorial Vignette Survey of Public Attitudes about End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making

    Open AccessCharles E Denk, John M Benson et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research1997Citada por: 5

  • The Consultant's Credentials

    John C Fletcher, John LaPuma et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1995

    Book reviewed in this article: Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide. By John LaPuma and David Schiedermayer. The Health Care Ethics Consultant. Edited by Francoise E. Baylis

  • Criticism or Caricature

    Franklin G Miller, John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1995

  • Respect for Autonomy

    James F Childress, John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1994

  • Germ-Line Gene Therapy

    Open AccessJohn C FletcherARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1994Referências: 1

    Symposium: Regulating Germ-Line Gene Therapy

  • On Restoring Public Bioethics

    Open AccessJohn C FletcherARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1994Citada por: 1

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  • Prenatal diagnosis and sex selection in 19 nations

    Open AccessDorothy C Wertz, John C FletcherARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1993Citada por: 7Referências: 8

  • The Huguenot Diaspora

    John C Fletcher, John FletcherARTICLEDiaspora A Journal of Transnational…1992

    Diaspora 2:2 1992 The Huguenot Diaspora John Fletcher University of East Anglia Diasporas are often set in motion by an act of persecution, massacre , or other violent action on the part of the majority against a minority. The persecuted minority is then dispersed; more often than not, it includes the elite responsible for much ofthe commercial and cultural activity ofthe persecuting nation and goes on to enrich the cultural and commercial life o…

  • Legal and ethical implications of the Cruzan decision for the elderly, their families, and health care providers

    Bethany Spielman, John C FletcherARTICLEFamily & Community Health1991

    1Instructor in Biomedical Ethics University of Virginia School of Medicine 2Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Religious Studies University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia

  • Case Studies

    Abbyann Lynch, John C Fletcher et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

    Mrs. S, at age forty-five, has just been told dud she has Huntington disease, following a workup--including CAT scanning of the brain-after she developed abnormal body-jerking movements. Huntington disease (HD) is a disorder of genetic origin, appearing without warning between the ages of thirty and sixty. It causes irreversible mental and motor deterioration, leading to death after several years of intense suffering for both patient and family. …

  • Geneticists and Sex Selection

    Celia I Kaye, John La Puma et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

  • The Patient Self-Determination Act

    John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

    The "Ethics committees" column in this issue of the Hastings Center Report features an introduction by Cynthia B. Cohen and four brief commentaries on the roles hospital ethics committees may play in the making of institutional and public health care policy in the 1990s. The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," …

  • The Oxford Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare, John C Fletcher et al.BOOKThe two noble kinsmen1989

    A critical edition of Shakespeare's play with an introduction which concentrates on the play's relevance to Elizabethan political issues and the role played in it by women by legal concepts and practices and by the family. The First Folio (1623) and the play's stage history are studied.

  • Ethics and Genetics

    Dorothy C Wertz, John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1989

    Wertz and Fletcher briefly summarize the findings of their 1985-86 survey of responses to ethical dilemmas by medical geneticists in 19 countries. Geneticists identified six categories of ethical problems encountered in practice: (1) the duty to warn third parties of genetic harm vs. the duty to preserve patient confidentiality; and (2) full disclosure of sensitive information; (3) full disclosure of test results; (4) directive vs. nondirective c…

  • Fatal Knowledge? Prenatal Diagnosis and Sex Selection

    Dorothy C Wertz, John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1989

    Moral and social arguments weigh heavily against performing medical procedures solely for purposes of sex selection. The medical profession has a responsibility to abandon its posture of ethical neutrality and take a firm stand now against sex selection

  • Medical Genetics

    John C Fletcher, Dorothy C WertzARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1988

  • Fetal Research

    John C Fletcher, Joseph D SchulmanARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1985

    With the demise of the Department of Health and Human Services'\nEthics Advisory Board in September 1980, there has been little federal review\nof fetal research proposals. Now fetal research is reviewed mainly at the\nlocal level by institutional review boards, and is funded primarily by the\nprivate sector. The authors summarize the pre-1980 history of the federal\nreview and funding of fetal research, and the role of the National Commission\nf…

  • A Trial Policy for the Intramural Programs of the National Institutes of Health

    John C Fletcher, F William Dommel et al.ARTICLEIRB Ethics and Human Research1985

    John C. Fletcher, F. William Dommel, Jr., Daniel D. Cowell, A Trial Policy for the Intramural Programs of the National Institutes of Health: Consent to Research with Impaired Human Subjects, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1985), pp. 1-6

  • Is This Clinical Trial Necessary

    Ronald S Gabriel, Mortimer B Lipsett et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1984

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  • Do Vitamins Prevent Neural Tube Defects (And Can We Find out Ethically)

    Mortimer B Lipsett, John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1983

    Proposals have been made to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a clinical trial to determine the role of vitamin supplements in the prevention of neural tube defects. In view of incomplete British studies suggesting a positive effect, American researchers and ethicists have debated the scientific validity and ethical implications of various research design options. Policy makers are faced with the dilemma that, while…

  • Genetic Counseling

    Philip R Reilly, Philip Reilly et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1983

    Book reviewed in this article: Coping with Genetic Disorders. By John C. Fletcher. Genetics, Ethics and Parenthood. Edited by Karen Lebacqz. Screening and Counseling for Genetic Conditions: The Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of Genetic Screening, Counseling, and Education Programs. A report of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research

  • Ethics and Amniocentesis for Fetal Sex Identification

    John C FletcherARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1980

    Two types of parents request fetal sex identification by amniocentesis: the first group risk transmitting a sex-linked hereditary disorder and the second want to select the gender of their next child. Physicians generally encourage the first type of parent but discourage the second. Prenatal diagnosis for sex choice is controversial because of ethical objections to the use of abortion for such a reason and because of the question of whether amnio…

  • Research Review at NIH

    Mortimer B Lipsett, John C Fletcher et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1979