Newspaper articles
New York Times series:
- In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift from Person to Patient by Benedict
Carey, New York Times, August 16, 2005
- Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road by
Jan Hoffman, New York Times, August 14, 2005
- Sick and Scared, and Waiting, Waiting, Waiting by Gina Kolata,
New York Times, August 20, 2005
Technical articles and
reports references
Cassell, EJ; The Nature of Suffering and the Goal of Medicine. N Engl
J Med 1982. 306(11): 639-645
Daneault, S. et al; The Nature of Suffering and Its Relief in the Terminally
Ill: a Qualitative Study. J Palliative Care 2004. 20(1): 7-11.
Strandmark, MK; Ill health is powerlessness: a phenomenological study
about worthlessness, limitations and suffering. Scand J Caring Sci;
2004. 18: 135-144.
Sulmasy
National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine reports (www.iom.edu)
- Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life (1997)
- Improving Palliative Care for Cancer (2001)
- When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for
Children and their Families (2002)
Foley
Books
The Nature of Suffering and the Goal of Medicine by
Eric Cassell MD
Oxford University Press 1991
Persons, Society and Value: Towards a Personalist Concept of
Health
Edited ……. Published by Kulv
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Media
The Choice Is Yours Produced by the American Board
of Internal Medicine
Organizations
The Hastings Center
www.thehastingscenter.org
Robert Wood Johnson
www.rwjf.org
Georgetown University Center for Clinical Bioethics
http://clinicalbioethics.georgetown.edu
University of Washington SOM Department of Ethics and History
depts.washington.edu/mhedept
University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
http://ethicscenter.nd.edu
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago link
http://ethics.bsd.uchicago.edu
Princeton University Center for Human Values
www.princeton.edu/~uchv
Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Center_for_Biomedical_Ethics/index.html
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