Carol Levine
Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Health Care Fund
Posts by Carol Levine
- Bioethics Forum Essay
Bioethics, Nazi Analogies, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe year 2020 will be remembered as the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. But the pandemic was not alone in creating fear and dismay and raising ethical questions. Think of the rise in antisemitism, police violence against Black people, protests against immigration, and rallies by groups espousing Nazi slogans and symbols. Hate crimes, including murder, are the highest in years, according to the most recent FBI report, and were particularly aimed at Jews and Hispanics. Asian-Americans have been targeted as carriers of the so-called “China virus.”Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Quixote Reimagined: Magical Realism Meets the Opioid Epidemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayWhat is Don Quixote, Cervantes’ 17th-century Spanish “Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha,” doing in a 21st-century novel about America? He’s on a quest to wed his Beloved. And what does this obsession have to do with the present-day opioid epidemic? Salman Rushdie’s new novel Quichotte lin...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
Read the PostBioethics Forum Essay“Improving patient experience” has become the mantra of many health care facilities in a highly competitive and regulated environment. But just what is it about the patient experience that needs to be improved? Will better food and gift bags do the trick? Or are more basic changes required?Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFor the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life without him. Ten years later, these occasions happen less frequently, usually connected with an anniversary or a family event. In my i...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAn old woman desperately needs medical attention. Yet she fiercely refuses every offer of help from friends, neighbors, and the local doctor. No one will get past her door, she vows. Respecting her autonomy means leaving her alone, possibly to die. Intervening to save her means risking her wrath and ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Hastings, Botswana, and Edinburgh: Bioethics Meets Detective Fiction
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn the bioethics world, all roads eventually lead to Hastings, whether that means the Center in Garrison, N.Y., or Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., where the Center was born in 1969 and lived for almost 20 years. The relationships among those who have worked at or visited Hastings make up a global network o...Read the Post - From Bioethics Briefings
Family Caregiving
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsFraming the Issue Families have always taken care of their ill and disabled relatives. Why should it be any different now? This disarmingly simple question often opens a policy discussion of the role of families in providing care to aging or chronically ill family members. Underlying this question is...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Goldilocks and the Three Hospice Patients
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayGoldilocks, all grown up and working as a Medicare hospice auditor, checks the records of three patients. She frowns at Mr. Brown Bear’s record. He was referred to hospice three days before he died, after spending several costly weeks in an acute care hospital, the last two in an intensive care...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Robot and Frank, and Maybe Me
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIf movies are one window into the soul of America, “Robot and Frank” has some funny/sad things to say about our current approach to aging. Frank (Frank Langella, as charismatic as ever) is a retired cat burglar, losing his memory and generally deteriorating in his country home. Hunter, his con...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
“Beware the Ides of March” 2.0
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe ancients looked to omens and portents to recognize signs of impending death. Today we do not rely on the ominous words of soothsayers, interpreting the entrails of chickens, or the appearance of owls to discern the odds of someone dying. We are more rational and sophisticated. We believe that ...Read the Post
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