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A wide array of scholarly inquiry in bioethics takes place at the University of Michigan. Most research combines analytical, conceptual analysis with empirical methods. Contact us if you would like further information on a particular area of research,

PUBLICATIONS

Measuring African American Parents’ Cultural Mistrust While in a Health Care Setting.  Moseley KL, Freed GL, Bullard CM, Goold SD.  J Nat Med Ass 99(1):15-21, 2007 Jan.

 

The Coverage Priorities of Disabled Adult Medi-Cal Beneficiaries.  Danis M, Ginsburg M, Goold SD.  Journal of  Health Care in the Poor and Underserved.  17:592–609, 2006.

 

(De)constructing “Basic:”  Citizens Define the Core Elements of Coverage.  Ginsburg M, Goold SD, Danis M.  Health Affairs, 25(6):1648-55, November 14, 2006.

 

Define “Affordable.”  Goold SD, Baum NM.  Hastings Center Report  36(5):22-24, September-October 2006

 

Ethics and Professionalism: What Does a Resident Need to Learn?  Goold SD and Stern D.  American Journal of Bioethics  6(4):9-17, July-August 2006.

 

 

 

GRANTS

Health Policy, Economics and Management

  • Allocating Scarce Resources, Rationing
  • Public participation in and public values related to health care priority-setting
  • The relationship between hospice location and population income
  • Improving the provision of palliative care in primary care
  • Deliberative democratic approaches to health policy
  • Evaluating deliberative democratic procedures applied to health policy
  • Race, genetics, communities and health policy
  • Person Tradeoff (PTO) Utility Measure

Decision Making and Communication

  • Cultural mistrust and decision making by African American parents of severely ill neonates
  • Decisions to participate in research by those with impairments
  • The role of risk perceptions in decision making
  • The role of emotions in decision making
  • Health Benefit Choices by and about the Uninsured
  • Consent to preventive services in primary care
  • Setting priorities for the use of limited healthcare resources
  • Advance planning for end of life decisions
  • Also see the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine

Trust and Trustworthiness

  • Doctor-patient relationships, communication and trust in the context of severe illness
  • Cultural mistrust and its impact on healthcare decisions
  • Trust in healthcare institutions

Innovation and Evaluation of Ethics Education

  • Teaching and measuring professionalism
  • The "hidden" values curriculum
  • Ethics and Professionalsim: What Does a Resident Need to Learn?
  • Pelvic exams and anesthetized patients

Advances in Medical Science

  • Views on genetics in minority populations
  • Historical analyses of eugenics
  • Ethics, history and reproductive technologies

Culture, Race, and Gender

  • Historical and cultural analyses of Psychotropic Medications
  • Gender, Culture, and Psychiatry
  • African Americans, Trust and decision making

Research Ethics and Integrity

  • Decisions to participate in research by/for those with cognitive impairments
  • Evaluating researchers' competence to obtain Valid Consent or Refusal to Research Participation
  • The history of human experimentation
  • Research and Vulnerable Populations

History and Bioethics

  • The History of Eugenics and Human Genetics
  • Changing Concepts of Death
  • The Relations of Bioethics and History
  • The history of human experimentation
  • History of Schizophrenia
  • History of Psychotropic Medications
  • In Vitro Fertilization in the United States: History, Politics and American Reproductive Imagination

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