The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 11 (2022)

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The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 11 (2022)

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Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth
A. A. E. (Eduard) Verhagen
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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OrganEx: What Will It Mean?
Henry T. Greely
Pages: 4-7
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Is It Ethical to Mandate SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations among Incarcerated Persons?
Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz
Pages: 8-10
Published online: 01 Oct 2021
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Vaccination Mandates, Physically Forced Vaccination, and Rationing in the Intensive Care Unit: Searching for Ethical Coherence in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Afschin Gandjour
Pages: 11-14
Published online: 28 Feb 2022
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Postponed Withholding: Balanced Decision-Making at the Margins of Viability
Janicke Syltern, Lars Ursin, Berge Solberg & Ragnhild Støen
Pages: 15-26
Published online: 17 May 2021
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Postponed Withholding Does Not Postpone Attachment
Brian S. Carter
Pages: 27-30
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Deferring Decision-making in the Face of Uncertainty
Dominic J. C. Wilkinson
Pages: 30-33
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis
Pat Tissington
Pages: 33-35
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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The Path More Easily Reversed: Postponed Withholding at Borderline Viability
Mark R. Mercurio
Pages: 35-37
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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What Is the Ethical Goal of Empowering Parents in Emergent Decision-making about Their Premature Newborn?
Lynn Gillam & Trisha M. Prentice
Pages: 38-40
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making
Alice Cavolo
Pages: 40-43
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Delayed Withholding: Disguising Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Interventions in Extremely Preterm Infants
Annie Janvier & Keith J. Barrington
Pages: 43-46
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Default Withdrawal: Exacerbating Mistrust for Our Most Vulnerable Families
Uchenna Anani, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, Bree L. Andrews, Mobolaji Famuyide & Dalia Feltman
Pages: 46-48
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Use Certified Patient Decision Aids to Facilitate Shared Decision Making at the Margins of Viability
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Pages: 49-51
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Article Commentary
Should We Aspire to Be Rational About Letting Babies Die?
John D. Lantos
Pages: 51-53
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Informed Nondissent at the Limits of Viability
Noah M. Kon & Alexander A. Kon
Pages: 54-56
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making
Lien De Proost, Eline Bunnik, Angret de Boer & E. J (Joanne) Verweij
Pages: 56-59
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Article Commentary
The Birth of Tragedy? Extremely Premature Births and Shared Decision-Making
Joseph W. Kaempf & Kevin M. Dirksen
Pages: 59-66
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge
Stephanie Kukora, Naomi Laventhal & Marin Arnolds
Pages: 66-69
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Sharing Decisions When Withdrawing a Technology Is Not the Same as Withholding It
Danton Char, Dana Gal & Seth Hollander
Pages: 69-72
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Target Article

Article
Three Kinds of Decision-Making Capacity for Refusing Medical Interventions
Mark Christopher Navin, Abram L. Brummett & Jason Adam Wasserman
Pages: 73-83
Published online: 03 Aug 2021
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Respecting Patients’ Authority to Make Healthcare Decisions
Philip M. Rosoff
Pages: 84-86
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Against Multiplying Clinical Ethics Standards without Necessity: The Case for Parsimony in Evaluating Decision-making Capacity
Jeremy R. Garrett, John C. Moskop & J. Clint Parker
Pages: 87-89
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Supported Decision Making, Treatment Refusal, and Decisional Capacity
Megan S. Wright
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Reformulating Decision-making Capacity
Simon Walker, Otis Williams, Giles Newton-Howes & Neil Pickering
Pages: 92-94
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Article Commentary
Goals- and Burdens-based DMC as Expressions of Value Rather than Manifestations of DMC
Peter Maloy Koch
Pages: 94-96
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Authority, Autonomy, and Capacity
Daniel Fogal & Ben Schwan
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Article Commentary
Why Not Jump out of Decision-Making Capacity?
Yali Cong
Pages: 100-102
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Correspondence

Postponed Withholding: An Ethical Tool for Health Care Personnel to Empower Parents
Janicke Syltern, Lars Ursin, Berge Solberg & Ragnhild Støen
Pages: W1-W4
Published online: 04 Nov 2022
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Letters to the Editor

Letter
On Certification’s Real Role
Giles Scofield
Pages: W5-W6
Published online: 20 Jun 2022
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Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails
Jennifer E. James
Pages: W7-W8
Published online: 20 Jun 2022
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