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    Advance Directives, Dementia, and Physician-Assisted Death.Paul T. Menzel & Bonnie Steinbock - 2013 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (2):484-500.
    Almost all jurisdictions where physician-assisted death is legal require that the requesting individual be competent to make medical decisions at time of assistance. The requirement of contemporary competence is intended to ensure that PAD is limited to people who really want to die and have the cognitive ability to make a final choice of such enormous import. Along with terminal illness, defined as prognosis of death within six months, contemporary competence is regarded as an important safeguard against mistake and abuse, (...)
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    Advance Directives, Dementia, and Withholding Food and Water by Mouth.Paul T. Menzel & M. Colette Chandler-Cramer - 2014 - Hastings Center Report 44 (3):23-37.
    Competent patients have considerable legal authority to control life‐and‐death care. They may refuse medical life support, including medically delivered food and fluids. Even when they are not in need of any life‐saving care, they may expedite death by refusing food and water by mouth—voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, or VSED. Neither right is limited to terminal illness. In addition, in four U.S. states, competent patients, if terminally ill, may obtain lethal drugs for aid‐in‐dying.For people who have dementia and are no (...)
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  3. The cultural moral right to a basic minimum of accessible health care.Paul T. Menzel - 2011 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 21 (1):79-119.
    In the United States, amid the fractious politics of attempting to achieve something close to universal access to basic health care, two impressions are likely to feed skepticism about the status of a right to universal access: the moral principles that underlie any right to universal access may seem incredibly "ideal," not well rooted in the society's actual fabric, and the necessary practical and political attempts to limit the scope of universally accessible care to make its achievement realistic may seem (...)
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    AEDs are problematic, but Mrs A is a misleading case.Paul T. Menzel - 2019 - Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (2):90-91.
    The case of Mrs A is a provocative example of euthanasia by advance directive to avoid increasingly severe dementia. It is also a ‘perfect storm’ of a disturbing case, revealing both the challenges that can arise with advance euthanasia directives generally and particular issues in the Dutch procedures. Kim, Miller and Dresser have done a distinct service to bioethics in detailing the case, in explaining the basis of the regional euthanasia review committee reprimand of the administering geriatrician and in highlighting (...)
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    Advance Directives for Refusing Life‐Sustaining Treatment in Dementia.Bonnie Steinbock & Paul T. Menzel - 2018 - Hastings Center Report 48 (S3):75-79.
    Aid‐in‐dying laws in the United States have two important restrictions. First, only patients who are terminally ill, defined as having a prognosis of six months or less to live, qualify. Second, at the time the patients take the lethal medication, they must be competent to make medical decisions. This means that an advance directive requesting aid in dying for a later time when the patient lacks decision‐making capacity would be invalid. However, many people are more concerned about avoiding living into (...)
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    Oregon's Denial Disabilities and Quality of Life.Paul T. Menzel - 1992 - Hastings Center Report 22 (6):21.
    In using quality of life as a guide to rationing health services, Oregon laid itself open to charges of bias against the disabled—charges that cannot be dismissed out of hand.
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    Justice and Fairness: A Critical Element in U.S. Health System Reform.Paul T. Menzel - 2012 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 40 (3):582-597.
    The case for U.S. health system reform aimed at achieving wider insurance coverage in the population and disciplining the growth of costs is fundamentally a moral case, grounded in two principles: (1) a principle of social justice, the Just Sharing of the costs of illness, and (2) a related principle of fairness, the Prevention of Free‐Riding. These principles generate an argument for universal access to basic care when applied to two existing facts: the phenomenon of “market failure” in health insurance (...)
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    Oregon's Denial.Paul T. Menzel - 1992 - Hastings Center Report 22 (6):21-25.
    In using quality of life as a guide to rationing health services, Oregon laid itself open to charges of bias against the disabled—charges that cannot be dismissed out of hand.
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    Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Normative Comparison with Refusing Lifesaving Treatment and Advance Directives.Paul T. Menzel - 2017 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 45 (4):634-646.
    Refusal of lifesaving treatment, and such refusal by advance directive, are widely recognized as ethically and legally permissible. Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not. Ethically and legally, how does VSED compare with these two more established ways for patients to control the end of life? Is it more questionable because with VSED the patient intends to cause her death, or because those who assist it with palliative care could be assisting a suicide?In fact the ethical and legal basis for (...)
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    Medical Costs, Moral Choices: A Philosophy of Health Care Economics in America.Paul T. Menzel - 1985
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    Advance Directives for Dementia Can Survive Altered Preferences.Paul T. Menzel - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (8):80-82.
    Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2020, Page 80-82.
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    The Value of Life at the End of Life: A Critical Assessment of Hope and other Factors.Paul T. Menzel - 2011 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (2):215-223.
    “The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead.” Indeed. But even total and honest acceptance of this brute fact about our relationship to death does not diminish the value we see in short remaining life at the end of life. Few just “give in” and no more fight for life because death is seen as an inherent part of life. They still invest small amounts of additional life with huge value. How high may that value plausibly be? (...)
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    Advance directives for oral feeding in dementia: a response to Shelton and Geppert.Paul T. Menzel - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
    In a recent paper in JME, Shelton and Geppert use an approach by Menzel and Chandler-Cramer to sort out ethical dilemmas about the oral feeding of patients in advanced dementia, ultimately arguing that the usefulness of advance directives about such feeding is highly limited. They misunderstand central aspects of Menzel’s and Chandler-Cramer’s approach, and in making their larger claim that such directives are much less useful than typically presumed, they fail to account for five important elements in writing good directives (...)
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    Public philosophy: Distinction without authority.Paul T. Menzel - 1990 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (4):411-424.
    An assumed core of normative ethical principles may constitute a philosophically proper framework within which public policy should be formulated, but it seldom provides any substantive solutions. To generate public policy on bioethical issues, participants still need to confront underlying philosophical controversies. Professional philosophers' proper role in that process is to clarify major philosophical options, to press wider-ranging concistency questions, and to bring more parties into the philosophical debate itself by arguing for particular substantive claims. Though questions of fact that (...)
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    Rescuing Lives Can't We Count?Paul T. Menzel - 1994 - Hastings Center Report 24 (1):22-23.
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    Complete lives, short lives, and the challenge of legitimacy.Paul T. Menzel - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (4):50 – 52.
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    A Conservative Case for Universal Access to Health Care.Paul T. Menzel & Donald Light - 2006 - Hastings Center Report 36 (4):36-45.
    Universal access to health care has historically faced strident opposition from political conservatives in the United States, although it has long been accepted by most conservatives in the rest of the industrialized world. Now, in a global economy where American business is crippled by the rising cost of market-based health care, the time may be ripe for change. The key to fostering a new mindset among American conservatives is to show why universal access fulfills many of the basic values that (...)
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    Against Fairness: Stephen T. Asma, 2012, University of Chicago Press.Paul T. Menzel - 2014 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (1):95-97.
    The book, Against Fairness, by philosopher Stephen T. Asma is reviewed. Concepts of favoritism and justice are explored.
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    Some Ethical Costs of Rationing.Paul T. Menzel - 1992 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (1-2):57-66.
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    Justice and fairness: mandating universal participation.Paul T. Menzel - forthcoming - Hastings Center Report.
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    When Comes “The End of the Day?”: A Comment on the Dialogue between Dax Cowart and Robert Burt.Denis G. Arnold & Paul T. Menzel - 1998 - Hastings Center Report 28 (1):25-27.
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    Are killing and letting die morally different in medical contexts?Paul T. Menzel - 1979 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 4 (3):269-293.
  23. Are patents an efficient and internationally fair means of funding research & development for new medicines?Paul T. Menzel - 2009 - In Denis Gordon Arnold (ed.), Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 62.
     
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    A path to universal access.Paul T. Menzel - 2008 - Hastings Center Report 38 (1):34-36.
    What balance of government and private institution activity might stand a reasonable chance of achieving universal access to basic health care in the United States? David De Grazia makes a strong case that single-payer national health insurance with managed competition in delivery is morally the preferred structure for universal access: it best achieves the combination of universal access, cost control, freedom of patient choice, and quality of care. If we account for the realities of American political and moral culture, however, (...)
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    Double Agency and the Ethics of Rationing Health Care: A Response to Marcia Angell.Paul T. Menzel - 1993 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3 (3):287-292.
    The arguments against doctors as "double agents" that are presented by Marcia Angell in the preceding article do not defeat the core justification for rationing some relatively high-expense, low-benefit care, and they do not enable us to conclude that clinicians should be barred from any active, substantive role in decisions to limit that care. They do, however, reveal several important conditions that need to govern cost-conscious medical practice in order to preserve an ethic of fidelity to patients: insurers' profits and (...)
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    Divine Grace and Love: Continuing Trouble for a Logically Non-Dependent Religious Ethics.Paul T. Menzel - 1975 - Journal of Religious Ethics 3 (2):255 - 269.
    Carney and Graber have recently claimed that religious ethics can have its ultimate foundation in charismatic divine love and grace, without logically presupposing independent ethical principles. While their defense of the autonomy of religious ethics is successful against many typical philosophical critiques, their derivation of ethical principles from divine realities is not essentially but only contextually religious. Since divine elements make no crucial difference to that derivation, religious ethics contains essentially the same derivation of ethical principles from facts as does (...)
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    Dishonesty, Ignorance, or What?Paul T. Menzel - 2011 - Hastings Center Report 41 (2):16-17.
    We hardly regard politics—certainly not the words of politicians—as a realm where truth and honesty are closely protected. Public ignorance undoubtedly often pairs with politicians' disregard for accuracy to allow lies to pass. It is still galling, though, when political process and public reflection are stubbornly resistant to the obvious. It is more disturbing yet if the ignorance seems almost willing—a deeper kind of dishonesty in and with ourselves.By nature I am neither cynic, nor pessimist, nor one who disdains politics (...)
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  28. Determining the.Paul T. Menzel - forthcoming - Free Inquiry.
     
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    Equality, autonomy, and efficiency: What health care system should we have?Paul T. Menzel - 1992 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (1):33-57.
    has a wide range of options in choosing a health care system. Rational choice of a system depends on analysis and prioritization of the basis moral goals of equitable access to all citizens, the just sharing of financial costs between well and ill, respect for the values and choices of subscribers and patients, and efficiency in the delivery of costworthy care. These moral goals themselves, however, tell us little about what health care system the United States should have. Equitable access (...)
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    Epiphenomenalism and metaethical non-naturalism.Paul T. Menzel - 1970 - Journal of Value Inquiry 4 (1):43-55.
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    Economic competition in health care: A moral assessment.Paul T. Menzel - 1987 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (1):63-84.
    Economic competition threatens equity in the delivery of health care. This essay examines four of the various ways in which it does that: the reduction of charity care, increased patient cost-sharing, "cream-skimming" of healthy subscribers, and lack of information to patients about rationed care that is not prescribed. In all four cases, society must guard against distinct inequities and injustices, but also in all four, either the particular problem is not inherent in competition or, though inherent, it is not irremediable. (...)
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    How compatible are liberty and equality in structuring a health care system?Paul T. Menzel - 2003 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (3):281 – 306.
    In their normative role in shaping the basic structure of a health care system, liberty and equality are often thought to conflict so sharply that health policy is condemned to remain an ideological battleground. In this paper, I will articulate my own view of why much of the apparently fundamental conflict between individual liberty and responsibility, on the one hand, and equality and equality's related concern for cost-efficiency, on the other hand, is less intractable than it is usually assumed to (...)
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    Healthy Realism.Paul T. Menzel - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (2):44-45.
    Book reviewed in this article: Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph. By Robert P. Rhodes.
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    Healthy RealismHealth Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph.Paul T. Menzel & Robert P. Rhodes - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (2):44.
    Book reviewed in this article: Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph. By Robert P. Rhodes.
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    It's who you know. Commentary.Paul T. Menzel - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 42 (2):13.
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    Justifying a Surrogate’s Request to Forego Oral Feeding.Paul T. Menzel - 2019 - American Journal of Bioethics 19 (1):92-94.
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  37. Just access to health care and pharmaceuticals.Paul T. Menzel - 2010 - In George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Review essay.Paul T. Menzel - 1989 - Bioethics 3 (3):245–253.
    Rationing Health Care in America:Perceptions and Principles of Justice by Larry R. Churchill. American Health Care:Realities, Rights, and Reforms by Charles J. Dougherty. Should Medical Care Be Rationed by Age? edited by Timothy M. Smeeding, with Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman, Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield.
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    Saved from Themselves.Paul T. Menzel - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 42 (5):18-20.
    With his Affordable Care Act decision, Chief Justice Roberts saved conservatives from themselves. A constitutional regime that prohibited a mandate for basic health insurance while permitting Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration, presumably on the basis of government taxing authority, would have been a conservative nightmare. These partial U.S. versions of single payer and national health service are permissible, but a coherent private health insurance market is not?! The surprising thing is not that the generally conservative Roberts had the historical (...)
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    Technology and Justice. George Parkin Grant.Paul T. Menzel - 1988 - Ethics 98 (4):867-868.
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    To anyone morally perplexed about the politics of US health care.Paul T. Menzel - 1995 - Health Care Analysis 3 (1):68-70.
    For much of the last year and a half, the US has appeared on the verge of extensively reforming its financing and provision of health care, guaranteeing universal coverage for basic care and significantly controlling the long-term growth of costs. But it now appears that with a new Republican-led Congress we will at best adopt only selected insurance reforms: guaranteeing portability of insurance between jobs, banning insurers from excluding preexisting conditions from a person's coverage, and perhaps increasing subsidies for the (...)
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  42. The Health Care Cost Monitor.Paul T. Menzel - 2009 - Hastings Center Report 39 (5):6-6.
     
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    Too hot for politics to handle?: Hard questions about health insurance.Paul T. Menzel - 2008 - Hastings Center Report 38 (5):pp. 12-14.
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    (1 other version)To the Editor.Paul T. Menzel - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 41 (3):7-7.
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    Introduction by the Guest Editors.Bonnie Steinbock & Paul T. Menzel - 2016 - Asian Bioethics Review 8 (3):159-163.
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    Paper four: Non-compliance: Fair or free-riding. [REVIEW]Paul T. Menzel - 1995 - Health Care Analysis 3 (2):113-115.
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    Book Review of If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? and other essays on the ethics of health care. [REVIEW]Paul T. Menzel - 1994 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2):172-173.
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    Physician‐Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know. L. W. Sumner, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2017. xv + 243 pp. US$ 16.95 pbk, ISBN 978‐0‐19‐049017‐1. US$ 74.00 hbk. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐049018‐8. [REVIEW]Paul T. Menzel - 2018 - Bioethics 32 (5):327-328.
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    QALYs: Maximisation, distribution and consent. A response to Alan Williams. [REVIEW]Paul T. Menzel - 1995 - Health Care Analysis 3 (3):226-229.
  50. Wolff's Critics: Confusing the Confusing. [REVIEW]Paul T. Menzel - 1976 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3):308.
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