Alan Meisel
Professor of Law and Bioethics, and Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh
Posts by Alan Meisel
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End-of-Life Care
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsFraming the Issue End-of-life care and its many dilemmas capture public attention when they make national news, often involving a family seeking a court order to remove life support from a patient who, medical experts say, is in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery. The Schiavo case in 2...Read the Post
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The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
Read the PostPage“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though it has roots tracing back decades or generations earlier, modern bioethics is widely held to have aris...Read the Post - IRB: Ethics & Human Research
When Will We Learn?
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PRESS RELEASE 2-18-14: Hastings Center Announces Journalists Bootcamp on Covering End-of-Life Care
Read the PostPageDebates about when life ends and treatment decision-making are regularly in the news – most recently with the California teenager and the pregnant woman in Texas declared brain dead. To help journalists with their reporting, The Hastings Center will present special sessions on understanding and wr...Read the Post - Page
PRESS RELEASE: Exploring a Legal and Ethical Gray Area for People with Dementia
Read the PostPageMany of the legal and ethical options for refusing unwanted interventions are not available to people with dementia because they lack decision-making capacity. But one way for these people to ensure that they do not live for years with severe dementia is to use an advance directive to instruct caregi...Read the Post - Page
Fellows
Read the PostPageHastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment. Hastings Center Fellows may be academic bioethicist...Read the Post
