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Commentary 6 - Reflections on Part VI

from Part VI - Human Guinea Pigs and Miracles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2025

By
Kaarkuzhali B. Krishnamurthy
Edited by
Paul J. Ford  and
Denise M. Dudzinski
Paul J. Ford
Affiliation:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Denise M. Dudzinski
Affiliation:
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
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In this chapter of Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us, the author discusses how the four cases in Part VI remain relevant as medical science continues to provide clinical innovations and as patients and their families research and request unorthodox treatments. Considerations about the limits of autonomy, moral distress, and the role of medical advocacy continue to be discussed and debated today as they were when these cases were originally written. However, ethics consultation as a practice has evolved to include awareness and inclusion of cultural context and equity as important factors that can inform decision making, and ensuring more comprehensive consideration of these features in all consultation work should be a goal as medical science progresses.

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hauntingorgan donationsurrogate conflictaltruismmoral distressclinical ethics

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Complex Ethics Consultations
Cases that Haunt Us
 , pp. 194 - 200
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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