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My 92-Year-Old Father Didn’t Need More Medical Care

My 92-Year-Old Father Didn’t Need More Medical Care

by External Article | Jan 2, 2020 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Long Distance Caregiving | 0 comments

My 92-year-old father fell one Saturday night a few months ago. My mother could not pick him up. Her brother was not answering his cellphone, so she called 911. An ambulance crew brought him to the hospital. I took the first flight from Washington, D.C., and arrived...
On Vanishing

On Vanishing

by External Article | Apr 7, 2016 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Neighbor, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning, Grief | 0 comments

Janet Adkins, a fifty-four-year-old English teacher, decided to make herself gone before the disease got the chance. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she was Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s first client. A minister friend asked me recently about my grandfather. I...
Should Doctors Take Care of Their Relatives?

Should Doctors Take Care of Their Relatives?

by External Article | May 13, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Death & Dying, Silent generation | 0 comments

[O]ver a roughly 25-year span, my father, Phillip I. Lerner, acted as the primary doctor for his relatives several times. All of the physicians agreed that the prognosis was grim, but that was not enough for my father. Pearl’s worst fear, which she had often stated,...
Disability: a welfarist approach

Disability: a welfarist approach

by External Article | Mar 1, 2011 | Care Work Library, Long Term Caregiving, Planning | 0 comments

In this paper, we offer a new account of disability. According to our account, some state of a person’s biology or psychology is a disability if that state makes it more likely that a person’s life will get worse, in terms of his or her own wellbeing, in a...
Disability: a welfarist approach

A life worth giving?

by External Article | Feb 17, 2011 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child | 0 comments

When is it permissible to allow a newborn infant to die on the basis of their future quality of life? The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant’s future life outweigh the benefits. In this paper I outline...
Disability: a welfarist approach

Brain damage and the moral significance of consciousness

by External Article | Feb 1, 2009 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Death & Dying | 0 comments

Neuroimaging studies of brain-damaged patients diagnosed as in the vegetative state suggest that the patients might be conscious. This might seem to raise no new ethical questions given that in related disputes both sides agree that evidence for consciousness gives...

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