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LAWRENCE P. ULRICH, Ph.D.
Lawrence.Ulrich@notes.udayton.edu



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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

Ohio. "Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care" Form.
Ohio. "Living Will Declaration" Form.
Ohio. "A Physician's Guide to Ohio's Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care."

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

National Bioethics Advisory Commission.  "Cloning Human Beings: Ethical Considerations."

ASSISTED SUICIDE

Annas GJ. "The Bell Tolls for a Constitutional Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide."
Annas GJ. "The Promised End --- Constitutional Aspects of Physician-Assisted Suicide."
Brody H. "Assisted Death --- A Compassionate Response to a Medical Failure."
Ganzini L. et al. "Physicians' Experiences with the Oregon Death with Dignity Act."
U.S. Supreme Court. Vacco v. Quill.
U.S. Supreme Court. Washington v. Glucksberg.

BRAIN DEATH

Harvard University Ad Hoc Committee. "A Definition of Irreversible Coma."
Truog RD. "Is it Time to Abandon Brain Death?"

END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS

AMA, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. " Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of  Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders."
Beauchamp TL. "Introduction," Intending Death: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
Engelhardt HT. "Tractatus Artis Bene Moriendi Vivendique: Choosing Styles of Living and Dying."
McCormick, RA. "To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine."
Ruark JE et al. "Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support."
Task Force on Ethics of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. "Consensus Report on the Ethics of Foregoing Life-sustaining Treatments in the Critically Ill."
Wanzer SH et al. "The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients."

ETHICAL CODES

AMA, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Code of Ethics, (1994).
American College of Physicians. Ethics Manual. 3rd edition (1993).

ETHICAL CONCEPTS

Beauchamp TL. "Paternalism."
Engelhardt HT. "Medicine and the Concept of Person."
Feinberg, J. "The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations."
Macklin, R. "Moral Concerns and Appeals to Rights and Duties."
Mappes & Zembaty. "The Language of Rights."
Miller, BL. "Autonomy and the Refusal of Lifesaving Treatment."
President's Commission. "Respecting Self-Determination."
Shaw AA. "Defining the Quality of Life."

FUTILITY

Cher DJ, Lenert LA. "Method of Medicare Reimbursement and the Rate of Potentially Ineffective Care of Critically Ill Patients."
Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. "Consensus Statement of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Ethics Committee Regarding Futile and Other Possibly Inadvisable Treatments."
Schneiderman LJ et al. "Medical Futility: Its Meaning and Ethical Implications."
Schneiderman LJ et al. "Medical Futility: Response to Critics."

INFORMED CONSENT

Appelbaum PS, Grisso T. "Assessing Patients' Capacities to Consent to Treatment."
Lidz EW, Appelbaum PS, Meisel A. "Two Models of Implementing Informed Consent."
Meisel A, Kuczewski M. "Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent."

MANAGED CARE

AMA, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. "Ethical Issues in Managed Care."
Auerbach ML. "Will Managed Care Alter the Art and Soul of Medicine?"
Bloche MG. "Clinical Loyalties and the Social Purposes of Medicine."
Emanuel EJ. "Managed Competition and the Physician-Patient Relationship."

NUTRITION AND HYDRATION

Gillick MR. "Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia."
Lynn J, Childress JE. "Must Patients Always be Given Food and Water?"
Paris JJ, McCormick RA. "The Catholic Tradition on the Use of Nutrition and Fluids."

PAIN MANAGEMENT

Quill TE et al. "Palliative Options of Last Resort."
Truog RD et al. "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill."

PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE AND COMA

AMA, Council on Scientific Affairs and Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. "Persistent Vegetative State and the Decision to Withdraw or Withhold Life Support."
American Academy of Neurology. "Position on Certain Aspects of the Care and Management of the Persistent Vegetative State Patient."
Howsepian AA. "The Multi-Society Task Force Consensus Statement on the Persistent Vegetative State: A Critical Analysis."
Howsepian AA. "Philosophical Reflections on Coma."
Ulrich LP. "Nancy Cruzan."

RELIGIOUS POSITIONS

Ulrich LP. "Bioethical Topics in the Catechism of the Catholic Church."