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by David Magnus, PhD and Norm Rizk, MD

This issue’s target article by Kirby (2016) raises an incredibly important and challenging set of issues: Whether, when, and how should limits be placed on patient access to intensive medical care? What are limits of shared decision making? Is bedside rationing ever appropriate? Kirby’s move away from bedside rationing to a mesolevel approach is novel and interesting. However, as some of the commentaries note, the question of whether there are limits to what will be offered to patients and their families often has to be made at the bedside.…

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American Journal of Bioethics

VOL. 16 No. 1 | January 2016

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Legal and Ethical Considerations in Allowing Parental Exemptions From Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) Screening

Written by Lisa A. Hom, Tomas J. Silber, Kathleen Ennis-Durstine, Mary Anne Hilliard & Gerard R. Martin

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Neuroimaging, Expert Witnesses, and Ethics: Convergence and Conflict in the Courtroom

Written by Leonard Berlin

AJOB Empirical Bioethics

VOL. 7 No. 1 | December 2015

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Adolescent research participants' descriptions of medical research

Written by Christine Grady, Isabella Nogues, Lori Wiener, Benjamin S. Wilfond MD & David Wendler

American Journal of Bioethics

VOL. 16 No. 1 | January 2016

AJOB Neuroscience

VOL. 5 No. 2 | March 2014

AJOB Empirical Bioethics

VOL. 7 No. 1 | December 2015

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