The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 20, Issue 3 (2020)

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The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 20, Issue 3 (2020)

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Guest Editorials

Editorial
The Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Program: Fair, Feasible, and Defensible, But Neither Definitive Nor Finished
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, Chris Feudtner, Mary Beth Benner, Felicia Cohn & on Behalf of the Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification Commission
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Editorial
First Steps: Inclusive or Exclusive?
Denise M. Dudzinski
Pages: 6-8
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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What the HEC-C? An Analysis of the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Program: One Year in
Claire Horner, Andrew Childress, Sophia Fantus & Janet Malek
Pages: 9-18
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification: The Big Picture
Alexander A. Kon
Pages: 19-21
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Looking to Other Professions to Advance the Health Care Ethics Consultant Certification Program
Jane Jankowski, Sharon L. Feldman, Georgina Morley & Susannah Leigh Rose
Pages: 21-24
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Ensuring Certified Healthcare Ethics Consultants Are Competent to Practice
Christine Mitchell & Stowe Locke Teti
Pages: 24-27
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Certification Assesses Minimal Competency for Healthcare Ethics Consultants, But What About Assessing Interpersonal Skills?
Katherine Wasson
Pages: 27-29
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Have the Cobbler’s Children Come Home to Roost?
Giles Scofield
Pages: 29-31
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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You Kids Get off My Ethics Lawn!: An Admitted Curmudgeonly Critique of Credentialing Individual Clinical Ethics Consultants
Thomas May
Pages: 32-34
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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HEC-C: From Halsted’s Perspective
Andrew G. Shuman & Christian J. Vercler
Pages: 35-37
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Reconciling the HEC-C and Clinical Ethics Fellowship Training Programs: Implications of the Baylor Experience
Joshua S. Crites & Cristie Cole Horsburgh
Pages: 37-39
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Article Commentary
Worth Our Salt: Reflections of an Early Career Clinical Ethicist
Hilary Mabel
Pages: 39-41
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Examining the Doing of Ethics Support Staff. A Dialogical Approach Toward Assessing the Quality of Facilitators of Moral Case Deliberation
Margreet Stolper, Reidar Pedersen & Bert Molewijk
Pages: 42-44
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Article Commentary
A Profession Without Expertise? Professionalization in Reverse
James A. Hynds & Joseph A. Raho
Pages: 44-46
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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A Call for Diversity and Inclusivity in the HEC-C Program
Julie Aultman & Cynthia Pathmathasan
Pages: 46-50
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Credentialing Ethics Expertise
Abram L. Brummett
Pages: 50-52
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Target Article

Article
Beneficence, Interests, and Wellbeing in Medicine: What It Means to Provide Benefit to Patients
Johan Christiaan Bester
Pages: 53-62
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Goal-Concordant Care Within the Range of the Possible
Wynne Morrison
Pages: 63-65
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Beneficence and Wellbeing: A Critical Appraisal
Laurence B. McCullough
Pages: 65-68
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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When “Objectivity” in Clinical Benefit is Seen Through Different Lenses
William Allen
Pages: 68-70
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Value Theory, Beneficence, and Medical Decision-Making
David DeGrazia
Pages: 71-73
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Virtues and Phronesis: Making Decisions in the Clinical Context
Aisha Y. Malik & Mervyn Conroy
Pages: 73-74
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Revisiting Beneficence: What Is a ‘Benefit’, and by What Criteria?
Leslie C. Avant & Keith Mark Swetz
Pages: 75-77
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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To Be Coherently Beneficient, Be Communitarian
Charles Foster
Pages: 77-79
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Cost Considerations Within a Duty of Beneficence
Jeroen Luyten
Pages: 79-81
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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By Various Ways We Arrive at the Same End
Mark Henderson Arnold & Ian Kerridge
Pages: 81-83
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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A Nudge Without a Wink!
Scott Gelfand & Mark D. Fox
Pages: 83-85
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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A Capabilities-Based Account of Wellbeing
Peter Koch
Pages: 85-87
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Beneficence in Maternity Care: Objective Aspects of Subjective Goals
Paul Burcher & Jazmine L. Gabriel
Pages: 88-90
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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Correspondence

Marginally Represented Patients and the Moral Authority of Surrogates
Jeffrey T. Berger
Pages: W1-W2
Published online: 27 Feb 2020
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