upstate medical university center for bioethics and humanities

Bioethics in Brief

This newsletter is written and published under the direction of Center faculty on behalf of University Hospital. Bioethics in Brief is written for patients, families, and clinicians who confront bioethical issues. The newsletter features case discussion, a review of recent "hot topics," ethical issues confronting nurses, and the overlap of ethics with the law. We welcome dialogue and feedback, as well as suggestions of issues you might like to see explored in the newsletter. For further information, contact the newsletter's Editor, Deirdre Neilen at neilend@upstate.edu

Highlights of each issue:

Should we send illegal immigrants back home when they seek medical care? Three myths about the ethics of health care reform, Paying physicians to talk about end-of-life decisions...October 2009 text
When parents say no to medical treatment for their children, Ethics consult FAQs, President's council on Bioethics...May 2009 text
Multifetal reduction, NYC diabetes registry, Mental health parity...December 2008 text
Dying patients, the FDA, Unproven drugs, The costs of health insurance...September 2008 text
Drug money, Gifts to clinicians, Restricting physician's duty hours...January 2008 text
When patients refuse treatment, HPV mandatory, Conscientious objection...July 2007 text
Brain death, Pandemic flu, Autonomy, Public health
& trans fats...March 2007 text
Informed consent unnecessary, Tissue issue, Prisoners
in medical research...December 2006 text
Surfing for organs, Culture and transplantation, View
from a patient...March 2006 text
Caregiver's perspective, Culture & caregiving, When
primary caregiver is not family...November 2005 text
Law reform after Schiavo, Clinicians & military prisoner
abuse, Five wishes...September 2005 text
Medical Futility, Human growth hormone, Clinical
drug trials...April 2005 text
Problematic DNR orders, Malpractice frustration, Abuse
of nurses...October 2004 text
Determining patient capacity, Bodies for sale, Hospital
policy watch...April 2004 text

RX promotion, Supreme Court and The ADA, CT scan
or CT scam, Artificial nutrition...September 2002 text

Health care proxy, Kissing cousins, Hospitalized
prisoners, It's ethical, but is it legal...Summer 2002 text

Can patients refuse a transplant, AIDS vaccine, Sex selection,
Genetic testing, Jehovah's Witnesses refusal...November 2001 text

HIV children forced to take meds, Baby banking, Euthanasia
legalized, Joined at birth, separated by law...February 2001 text

Weighing "clear and convincing evidence," Human eggs for sale,
DNA mapping, Protecting basic human rights...October 2000 text

Can she handle the news, Supreme Court agrees, Gene
therapy experiments halted, Minding the gap...May 2000 text