The Inner Workings of an Ethics Committee
Latest Battle over Jehovah's Witnesses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Macklin (0000-0001-9749-2037, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15 |
| Publication date | 1988-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3562010 |
| PMID | 3350644 |
| OpenAlex | W2084945215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds have long created ethical dilemmas for those in the medical profession trying to serve them. A bioethicist working in a clinical setting explores how one hospital ethics committee grappled with the additional problem of pregnant Jehovah's Witnesses, including the complex interdependence of maternal and fetal rights
Autonomy · Battle · Beneficence · Bioethics · Engineering ethics · Ethics committee · Medical ethics · MEDLINE · Patient advocacy · Political science · Engineering · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 2001 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |