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Health Care Ethics USA
There has been a substantial expansion of the Catholic Health Ethics Partnership (CHEP) that publishes the electronic journal (ejournal) Health Care Ethics USA. The ejournal will continue to use the year and number identifiers in continuity with the original format. As editor of the ejournal, I welcome our new health system members. The journal is designed to assist ethics committee members and other health professionals in Catholic health care. And the electronic format is adopted to facilitate easy and widespread distribution of the ejournal across different health systems. Moreover, there is a new format for the ejournal, including essays of just 1000 words (previously they were considerably longer) with a brief executive summary - the new format is designed to make it easier for busy health professionals to find time for the essays. The original version of each issue of Health Care Ethics USA is archived online for CHEP members who have online access to the current and all of the previous issues at: http://chce.slu.edu/chep.html. After connecting to "log in to the current issue", the User Name is, hceusa (lower case only), and the Password is, 2005. This new format for Health Care Ethics USA contains three essays. The first essay is by Gerard Magill, PhD (editor of the ejournal), who is Executive Director & Department Chair of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. His essay provides an exhortative reflection rather than a scholarly analysis; the title is, "Shark Fins or Dolphin Leaps? A Reflection on Ethical Leadership in Catholic Health Care." The second essay is co-authored by Mark Repenshek, PhD, who is the health care ethicist at Columbia St. Mary's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and by David Belde, PhD, who is the Director of Ethics at the Center for Ethics in Healthcare at Saint Joseph's Health System in Atlanta, Georgia. Their essay discusses "Honoring Experience in Moral Discourse" in Catholic health care. The final essay is by Ann Suziedelis, PhD who is the Director of Mission Services at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan. Her essay discusses "Requests for Inappropriate Treatment: Can A Doctor Just Say 'No'?" I hope you enjoy the essays and I look forward to receiving suggestions for topics that we might address in future issues. For ejournal email, please contact: hceusa@slu.edu. Professor Gerard Magill, PhD Index | Next: Shark Fins or Dolphin Leaps? A Reflection on Ethical Leadership in Catholic Health Care. |
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