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AU  - Cohen, Cynthia B. ; Jennings, Bruce ; Veatch, Robert M. ; Ross,
Judith Wilson
TI  - Ethics committees: Who will guard the guardians; The limits of
moral objectivity; Advice and consent; Why cases sometimes go
wrong.  [Introduction and three articles].
SO  - Hastings Center Report. 1989 Jan/Feb; 19(1): 19-23.
AB  - Three commentators explore the accountability of institutional
ethics committees and the case review functions they must develop
if they are to serve as their own guardians.  Recommendations are
made about whose conception of "the Good" is to prevail in ethics
committee review of surrogate decisions (Jennings), about issues
in the protection of patient confidentiality (Veatch), and about
the common understanding of ethics committees concerning the
purposes of case review (Wilson).  Each position assumes that
ethics committees now are sufficiently mature that they can
cogently explain in some detail the substantive and procedural
framework within which they carry out case reviews.  All the
comments maintain that these committees can do more to make their
Platonic search for "the Good" open to rational account and
common understanding.

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AU  - Thomasma, David C. ; Monagle, John F.
TI  - Hospital ethics committees: roles, membership, and structure.
SO  - In: Monagle, John F,; Thomasma, David C., eds.  Medical Ethics: A
Guide for Health Professionals. Rockville, Md.: Aspen Publishers;
1988: 397-407.