Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema wrote in their initial paper that it had been the ethics committee’s “consensus” to approve the parents’ requests as “ethically appropriate”. The minute of the committee also says that it was the “consensus.”
It was the consensus of the Committee members that the potential long term benefit to Ashley herself outweighed the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
What was the committee conclusion? What kind of “consensus” was it?
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, pillow angel on August 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Dr.Diekema’s official views on involuntary sterilization: Why did he do everything he himself had said “Don’t” without doing things he had said “Do” in the Ashley case?
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, tagged Ashley X, Dr. Diekema, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, medical ethics, mental disabilities, pillow angel, surrogate decision making on August 24, 2008 | Comments Off
Don’t use permanent lack of competence as your justification for involuntary sterilization because it is just a necessary condition and not by itself a sufficient justification. Don’t sterilize unless it is urgently necessary. Don’t sterilize a person who will not have sex or doesn’t possibly get pregnant. Don’t sterilize before the procedure becomes actually necessary. Don’t ever sterilize anyone prior [...]
Dr. Diekema’s own conditions disapprove Ashley’s hysterectomy
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley X, disabilities, ethics, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, medical ethics, pillow angel on August 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Dr. Diekema wrote the following paper on involuntary sterilization of people with mental disabilities in 2003.
Involuntary sterilization of persons with mental retardation: an ethical analysis.
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2003; 9(1):21-6 (ISSN: 1080-4013)
Its abstract is available here.
According to the abstract, Dr. Diekema gave four conditions for involuntary sterilization of mentally disabled women to be considered. He said [...]
When were they going to write a paper about the breast bud removal portion?
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, breast bud removal, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on August 14, 2008 | Comments Off
As was mentioned in the post Dr. Diekema did hide the breast bud removal, when Dr. Carole Marcus criticized the doctors’ paper for its omission of Ashley’s breast bud removal, Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema wrote in their reply, “ Breast bud removal was a completely separate request and raised a different set of issues that were [...]
Dr. Diekema’s Ashley presentation at ASA/CSCA annual meeting
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, tagged Ashley X, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on August 3, 2008 | Comments Off
The joint meeting of American Scientific Affiliation and Canadian Science and Christian Affiliation is being held Augst 1-4, at George Fox University. Dr. Diekema’s presentation titled, “Love, Justice, and Humility: Reflections on Bioethics and Medicine” was the first plenary session for Saturday. According to the meeting report #2 on the association site, it seems to [...]
Dr. Diekema is basically a cautious ethicist, only contradicts himself in the Ashley case
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, tagged Ashley X. pillow angel, bioethics, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, medical ethics on August 3, 2008 | Comments Off
I imagine the Ashley case has left many people wondering what kind of ethicist Dr. Diekema is. To find out, we have what he has said on other pediatric ethics issues to turn to. He has spoken and written on issues like vaccine refusal, circumcision, and conflicts between parents and physicians in medical decision making as linked [...]
