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Arthur L. Caplan
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 700
Citations - 15574
Arthur L. Caplan is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transplantation & Bioethics. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 664 publications receiving 13978 citations. Previous affiliations of Arthur L. Caplan include University of Strasbourg & University of Pittsburgh.
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Informed consent and provider-patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine.
TL;DR: In rehabilitation, it can be argued that for some patients at some times during their care, a contractual model would be inappropriate, and there may be instances in which paternalistic behavior toward rehabilitation patients is ethically justified.
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The Ethics of Patient Risk Modification Prior to Elective Joint Replacement Surgery.
Wesley H Bronson,Melissa Fewer,Karl Godlewski,James D. Slover,Arthur L. Caplan,Richard Iorio,Joseph A. Bosco +6 more
TL;DR: Ethical questions arise and who pays for risk factor modification and just how surgeons and patients can be incentivized to maximize the health status of the patient prior to surgery remain unclear.
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Caring for organs or for patients? Ethical concerns about the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006).
TL;DR: The reason for updating the act; the ethical concerns involved; and what the authors can learn from the failure of expert, ethical, and well-meaning people to recognize an important and long-standing ethical boundary are outlined.
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What is immoral about eugenics
TL;DR: The moral case against voluntary choices to advance eugenic goals by individuals or couples has not been persuasively made as discussed by the authors, but given the power and authority granted to parents to seek to improve or better their children by environmental interventions, at least some forms of genetic selection or …
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Public education and misinformation on brain death in mainstream media.
TL;DR: The caliber of education mainstream media provides the public about brain death is evaluated to evaluate the public's understanding of brain death.