The Seattle Children’s Hospital Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics is convening its fourth pediatric bioethics conference today and tomorrow. The conference theme this year is genetic testing in children. The real time live webcast is available on the site linked above.
Yesterday, Paul Nyhan of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who was going to cover it wrote a post [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Dr. Diekema’s comment on genetic testing
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, breast bud removal, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, mastectomy, pillow angel on July 25, 2008 | Comments Off
ACOG Opinion “Sterilization of Women, Including Those With Mental Disabilities
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, ethics, ethics committee, pillow angel, hysterectomy, Ashley X, involuntary sterilization on July 21, 2008 | Comments Off
In July 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updated their ethics committee opinion “Sterilization of Women, Including Those With Mental Disabilities” in Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second Edition, 2004.
You will find the updated version here.
I find some parts of the opinion particularly relevant to the Ashley case. For example;
The presence of a [...]
It was “mastectomy”, not “breast bud removal” in 2004
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, ethics committee, pillow angel, Ashley X, breast bud, Dr. Diekema, breast bud removal, mastectomy, medical ethics on July 10, 2008 | Comments Off
One of the questions about Ashley’s breast bud removal that have been nagging me is “Is breast bud a legitimate medical term at all?”
Does the term breast bud really refer to the subcutaneous, almond-sized tissue which contains the milk glands that Ashley’s father calls breast bud in his blog?
So many people including the doctors [...]
