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S G Post

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PubMed1995

Medical students in a time of HIV: education and the duty to treat.

This article concerns medical education about the ethics of professional duties and treatment of HIV-infected patients. The issue at hand is not whether medical students have a duty to treat HIV-infected patients, since it is a matter of consensus that they do. Medical schools have reasserted that risks are inherent in medicine, and that medical school admission should be based on the willingness to accept some risks, in addition to intelligence and personal skills. Those who wish to avoid risks are free to enter other professions. While it is imperative to assert a duty to treat, this requires thoughtful explanation to match the understandably high anxiety levels of many medical students.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1995

Fairhill guidelines on ethics of the care of people with Alzheimer's disease: a clinical summary. Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University and the Alzheimer's Association.

These guidelines summarize the content of meetings of family caregivers and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type who identified and spoke on ethical issues in dementia care and who engaged in dialogue with an interdisciplinary and interprofessional group of individuals working in the field of Alzheimer's disease. This inductive method begins with attentive listening to the voices of the affected population and family members, in contrast with a theoretical and deductive approach to ethics.

Alzheimer Disease↗
PubMed1995

Alzheimer disease and the "then" self.

The authority of the intact self over the future severely demented self is based on notions of integrity and precedent autonomy. Despite criticism of this authority, the principle of precedent autonomy in the care of people with Alzheimer disease or other progressive and irreversible dementias retains its moral significance.

Advance Directive Adherence↗
PubMed1994

Genetics, ethics, and Alzheimer disease.

This article considers the emerging research on Alzheimer disease (AD) genetics in relation to ethical questions surrounding presymptomatic and prenatal genetic testing. Given the rapid advance in AD genetics over the past 8 years, it is likely that the attention of clinicians and ethicists will increasingly turn to genetic issues. After a survey of current genetic knowledge, this article addresses 3 areas of likely ethical concern. While AD genetic screening programs are currently rare and restricted to specific pedigrees, they will become more common in the future. It is, therefore, imperative that society and clinicians begin to consider the ethical issues this raises.

Alzheimer Disease↗
PubMed1994

Implantable hormonal contraceptives: emerging controversy.

There is an emerging policy debate over the inclusion of Norplant incentives in welfare reform. Even if women were guaranteed access to the implant and payment for its removal were assured, the possibility of increased human immunodeficiency virus infection would remain a strong argument against its use. Although this article focuses on Norplant, many of the arguments apply to other long-acting contraceptives that may become available in the future.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1994

Alzheimer's disease. Ethics and the progression of dementia.

This article provides an overview of the ethical issues raised by the experience of progressive dementia of the Alzheimer type. The discussion follows the chronology of this progression, reviewing significant literature and, at times, offering normative resolutions. Guidelines on dementia ethics will be increasingly important for good care.

Alzheimer Disease↗
PubMed1993

Psychiatry and ethics: the problematics of respect for religious meanings.

Over the past two decades American psychiatrists have had to address the emergence of an increasingly fervent religious pluralism. Particularly in cases of socially controversial new religious movements (NRMs), distressed families have pressured psychiatrists to assess the mental state of recruits to such sects, often labeled "cults." At this inevitably acrimonious interface between family values and religious liberties, psychiatrists have for the most part resisted pressures to medicalize religious conversions. This article provides an historical review of American psychiatric response to NRMs with respect to nosology and practice. It introduces this response in the more general context of ethics and the problematics of respect for religious meanings.

Behavior Control↗