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Consortium Ethics Program Consortium Ethics Program Community Ethics / Volume 4, Number 1 Previous Article : Issue Contents Survival on the Ethics Committee: A Nurse's Guide by Benjamin Phillips, R.N., Ph.D., VA Medical Center, Buffalo, NY When the kidney dialysis machine first came into service in the early 1960s, needy patients outnumbered the rare and expensive devices in discouraging numbers. Patients who got the machines lived, while those who didn’t died. That selection process, about who would get a machine and who would not, in large part marked the beginning of modern bioethics.1 Today, the study of bioethics has burgeoned into numerous journals and books, is canonized as a formal discipline of study in philosophy departments, and has seen the coming of age of interdisciplinary “bioethics centers” in many American universities. Moreover, bioethics courses are increasingly required for university-level degrees in nursing. Discussion of bioethical issues has become a fact of everyday life in modern medical centers in the form of ethics committees. Full Article: http://www.pitt.edu/%7Ecep/41-6.html


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