I just found some new pieces of information from 2007 and am extremely interested in what Dr. Wilfond says there. One is his 2007 article published in the Hastings Center Report, The Ashley case: the public response and policy implications. Basically he asserts in the article that the Ashley treatment is no different from giving [...]
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Dr. Wilfond’s extraordinary excuse : the 06 paper “based on fading memories”
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on December 22, 2010 |
Emi Koyama explains why she is suspicious of bioethics
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, information, The doctors' medical paper, Uncategorized, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, growth attenuation, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on February 19, 2010 |
Emi Koyama just posted a really great article on the Bioethics Forum site reviewing a research practice of intersex fetus treatment using a synthetic hormone and the Ashley case. She says, “I am starting to question seriously what role bioethics and bioethicists play in medical controversies involving children who cannot make decisions for themselves, and [...]
On some misinformation in Dr. Lantos’ marvelous commentary to the Diekema & Fost article
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, investigation, The doctors' medical paper, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics committee, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel, WPAS on February 17, 2010 |
I just read Dr. Lantos’ commentary to the AJOB article “Ashley Revisited” by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost. Dr. Lantos virtually pointed out the fact that the doctors’ justification has been full of deceptions. It’s the fact that I have been documenting in my blog and I’m so glad that someone officially wrote in an [...]
What is the role Dr. Fost has been playing in the Ashley X case?
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 31, 2010 |
At the beginning of the “debate” between Dr. Fost and Dr. Lantos on the Bioethics Channel, the interviewer said, “Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost were both involved in the Ashley X case”. Dr. Fost himself put a little distance from the case by saying “what the Seattle team had done” in explaining why “we” the [...]
Dr. Lantos “Nobody knows what went on in that ethics committee meeting”
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation on January 29, 2010 |
Visit this bioethics site and go to the Bioethics Channel from the link there. Yes, this debate between Dr. Fost and Dr. John Lantos who wrote a critical commentary in AJOB deserves a listen. Dr. Lantos says court review is absolutely necessary, pointing out three problems of ethics committees in cases like the Ashley case: [...]
“The Ashley Treatment” has been done to a dozen of children, Ashley’s father says, but who sent the email to him?
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 26, 2010 |
In his third anniversary update of January 13, Ashley’s father writes “About dozen parents all over the world who are successful at providing the treatment to their Pillow Angels (boys and girls) are in contact with us.” He also mentions an email from “an attending doctor of a panel on Growth Attenuation at the pediatric [...]
“‘The Ashley Treatment’ is against physician’s moral duty to themselves,” says Naomi Tan
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, medical decision-making, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington on December 26, 2009 |
In the November issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, there’s a great paper on the Ashley case by Naomi Tan of Center for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester and I. Brassington. It is titled “Agency, duties and the ‘Ashley Treatment.’” http://jme.bmj.com/content/35/11/658.abstract Reading its full text, I find it reassuring that the authors, [...]
Dr. Norman Fost’s latest comments on surrogacy
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, breast bud removal, Diekema, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, surrogacy, surrogate mother, University of Washington on December 8, 2009 |
Dr. Norman Fost, who wrote two papers on the Ashley case and growth attenuation with Dr. Diekema this year, says on surrogacy, “It’s paternalistic to tell a competent woman how she can use her body, whether it’s to work in a coal mine or as a surrogate mother. “ He also says, “It’s not clear [...]
Reading “Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics” by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, Diekema, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, Gunther, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, parental decision making, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington on November 15, 2009 |
Reading the article “Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics” written by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost and published in AJOB in April, I find same dishonesties repeated from the initial 2006 paper by Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema. I also find new pieces of information revealed for the first time and newly altered explanation. But it [...]
The mystery of the definition of profound cognitive disability in the new growth attenuation paper
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, medical decision-making, medical ethics, mentally disabled, pillow angel, Seattle Children's on June 20, 2009 |
In their paper published in the June issue of the Pediatrics, the authors define profound cognitive disability “as including nonambulation and requiring assistance with nearly every aspect of daily living, remaining completely dependent on others for even basic care after careful attempts at training, and the inability to understand or express oneself in nuanced [...]
