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Teri Randall

JAMA. 1992;268(17):2352.

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AT A TIME when this nation is scrutinizing numerous health care proposals for their economic, political, and legal palatability (JAMA. 1992;268:2139-2141 and 1992;268:1635-1639), little emphasis has been placed, so it seems, on ethical considerations.

In the eyes of one medical ethicist, the debate is not only about politics and economics, but about "a fundamental moral issue of how we treat people, especially people who are least able to defend themselves."

So contends Charles Dougherty, PhD, professor of philosophy and director of Creighton University's Center for Health Policy and Ethics. (Please see previous article.)

Dougherty (pronounced DOCK er tee) is author or coauthor of five books and three dozen articles in scholarly journals on the ethics of health care. He has helped design the health care proposal of Sen Robert J. Kerrey (D, Neb) and also that of the Catholic Health Association, St Louis, Mo, whose more than 1200 facilities comprise . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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