Howard Brody
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American bioethicist and physician
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Howard Brody's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Texas Medical Branch
- PhD Philosophy University of Texas Medical Branch
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard A. Brody is an American bioethicist and family physician. He was a professor of family medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch prior to his retirement from there in 2016. For much of his time at the University of Texas Medical Branch, he was the director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities there. Brody has performed research in the field of placebo studies.
Howard Brody's Published Works
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Published Works
- Physician Recommendations and Patient Autonomy: Finding a Balance between Physician Power and Patient Choice (1996) (694)
- Withdrawing intensive life-sustaining treatment -- recommendations for compassionate clinical management. (1997) (272)
- Futility and the ethics of resuscitation. (1990) (269)
- Attitudes of Michigan physicians and the public toward legalizing physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. (1996) (248)
- The Healer's Power (1992) (247)
- Ethics and communication in do‐not-resuscitate orders (1988) (237)
- Transparency: informed consent in primary care. (1989) (218)
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians (1995) (217)
- The lie that heals: the ethics of giving placebos. (1982) (185)
- The placebo response. Recent research and implications for family medicine. (2000) (179)
- Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street: the London cholera epidemic, 1854 (2000) (177)
- "My Story Is Broken; Can You Help Me Fix It?": Medical Ethics and the Joint Construction of Narrative (2010) (167)
- Basic curricular goals in medical ethics. (1985) (145)
- Assisted death--a compassionate response to a medical failure. (1992) (127)
- The Clinician-Investigator: Unavoidable but Manageable Tension (2003) (114)
- Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (2006) (112)
- The Systems View of Man: Implications for Medicine, Science, and Ethics (2015) (101)
- Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine: Clinical, Conceptual, and Ethical Issues (1980) (89)
- Managed care. Jekyll or Hyde? (1995) (79)
- Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (2003) (74)
- The Company We Keep: Why Physicians Should Refuse to See Pharmaceutical Representatives (2005) (72)
- Regulating physician-assisted death. (1994) (71)
- BiDil: Assessing a Race-Based Pharmaceutical (2006) (64)
- Ethical Decisions in Medicine (1981) (59)
- Ethics and communication in do-not-resuscitate orders (1988) (58)
- The Changing Face of Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study of Underlying Influences and Unintended Outcomes (2012) (54)
- A rivalry of foulness: official and unofficial investigations of the London cholera epidemic of 1854. (1998) (53)
- Causing, Intending, and Assisting Death (1993) (50)
- Commentary on Billings and Block's “Slow Euthanasia” (1996) (49)
- Dental involvement in histiocytosis. (1972) (43)
- Narrative ethics: a narrative. (2014) (43)
- Studies on recurrent oral aphthae. I. Clinical and laboratory comparisons. (1969) (40)
- The physician's responsibility under the new Medicare reimbursement for hospice care. (1984) (39)
- The Physician's Role in Determining Futility (1994) (33)
- Evidence-Based Medicine: Watching Out for Its Friends (2005) (31)
- A critical review of racial/ethnic variables in osteoporosis and bone density research (2011) (30)
- Autonomy Revisited: Progress in Medical Ethics: Discussion Paper (1985) (28)
- The relationship between oral symptoms, insulin release, and glucose intolerance. (1971) (27)
- The Epidemiology of Bioethics (1999) (25)
- Ethics, Professionalism, and Humanities at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (2003) (25)
- The physician-patient relationship: Models and criticisms (1987) (21)
- Medical Futility: Medical futility: a useful concept? (1997) (21)
- Literature and ethical medicine: five cases from common practice. (1996) (20)
- The Future of Bioethics (2009) (20)
- Gag rules and trade secrets in managed care contracts. Ethical and legal concerns. (1997) (19)
- A challenge to core beliefs. (2001) (18)
- Views of united states physicians and members of the American medical association house of delegates on physician-assisted suicide (2001) (18)
- Narrative Ethics and Institutional Impact (1999) (17)
- Physician-assisted suicide: Toward a comprehensive understanding (1995) (17)
- Relationship-centered Care: Beyond The Finishing School (1995) (15)
- Philosophy of medicine and other humanities: Toward a wholistic view (1985) (15)
- Autonomy revisited: progress in medical ethics. (1986) (14)
- Double effect: does it have a proper use in palliative care? (1998) (14)
- Moving beyond cultural stereotypes in end-of-life decision making. (2005) (13)
- Pens and Other Pharmaceutical Industry Gifts (2003) (13)
- Ethics of life support and resuscitation. (1988) (13)
- The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient (1993) (13)
- The mammalian medical center for the 21st century. (1993) (12)
- Kevorkian and assisted death in the United States (1999) (12)
- Physician-assisted suicide in the courts: moral equivalence, double effect, and clinical practice. (1998) (12)
- John Snow revisited: getting a handle on the Broad Street pump. (1999) (12)
- Understanding and teaching continuity of care. (1987) (12)
- Competence in Preadolescence and Psychological Adjustment and Allostatic Load at Age 19 Related Risk and − Is Resilience Only Skin Deep ? : Rural African Americans ' Socioeconomic Status (2013) (10)
- Shared decision making and determining decision-making capacity. (2005) (10)
- Does Disease Have a Natural History (1983) (10)
- Bringing Clarity to the Futility Debate: Don't Use the Wrong Cases (1998) (10)
- Cost containment as professional challenge (1987) (10)
- After The Cruzan Case: The Primary Care Physician And The Use Of Advance Directives (1992) (9)
- Evidence-based medicine, nutritional support, and terminal suffering. (2000) (9)
- Dietitians' role in decisions to withhold nutrition and hydration. (1991) (9)
- The best system in the world. (1995) (9)
- Medicare reimbursement for hospice care. (1984) (9)
- Glucose tolerance in patients with oral symptoms. (1966) (8)
- Ethics in primary care: setting aside common misunderstandings. (1986) (8)
- Family Medicine, The Physician–Patient Relationship, and Patient-Centered Care (2006) (8)
- The chief of medicine. (1991) (7)
- Commentary: Moral growth in medical students (1995) (7)
- Care at the twilight: ethics and end-of-life care. (1995) (7)
- Withdrawing Versus Withholding Therapy: Still a Pernicious Distinction (1995) (7)
- EDMUND D. PELLEGRINO's PHILOSOPHY OF FAMILY PRACTICE (1997) (6)
- Medical bioethics and cultural diversity (1997) (6)
- Patient Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine—The Good Healthcare Citizen (2005) (6)
- A matter of influence. (2002) (5)
- CPR-Not-Indicated and Futility (1996) (5)
- The physician-patient contract: legal and ethical aspects. (1976) (5)
- Teaching medical ethics. Future challenges. (1974) (5)
- A policy imperative for primary care: reflections on Keystone II. (1990) (5)
- The Welcome Reassessment of Research Ethics: Is “Undue Inducement” Suspect? (2005) (5)
- Commentary: what we have here, is a failure to communicate. (1999) (5)
- A Headache at the End of the Day (2007) (5)
- Euthanasia, letting die and the pause. (1989) (5)
- Literature and Bioethics: Different Approaches? (2010) (4)
- Futility: Definition and Goals (2018) (4)
- The meaning of informed consent. (1984) (4)
- Ethics at the interface: conventional western and complementary medical systems (1996) (4)
- Medicine and Bioethics (2003) (4)
- Nondisclosure of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection in a Patient With Hemophilia: Medical and Ethical Considerations (2001) (4)
- Moral growth, spirituality, and activism: The humanities in medical education (2009) (4)
- Addressing spiritual concerns in family medicine: a team approach. (2004) (4)
- Family Structure and Development (1983) (4)
- Patient autonomy and provider beneficence are compatible. (2013) (3)
- The importance of primary care for theoretical medicine: A commentary (1992) (3)
- Possibilities and perils (2002) (3)
- Medical ethics in sport (1984) (3)
- Integrating ethics into the medical curriculum: one school's progress report. (1975) (3)
- "The vast majority of drug studies offer little if any evidence to support the physiologic effects of the placebo". (2000) (3)
- Comparative effectiveness research: a threat to patient autonomy? (2011) (3)
- Framing the health reform debate. (1994) (3)
- Bioethics, economism, and the rhetoric of technological innovation (2013) (3)
- Meeting the challenge of chronic pain. (2001) (3)
- Character and ethics consultation: Even the ethicists don't agree (2003) (3)
- New forces shaping the patient-physician relationship. (2009) (3)
- Supporting assisted suicide. How do the public and physicians feel about aiding in death? (1997) (3)
- Essays on Ethics Relating to the Practice of Plastic Surgery (1996) (3)
- Informed consent in critical and emergency care research. (1981) (3)
- Patient-Centered Care or Drug-Centered Care: The Influence of Pharmaceutical Marketing on Medical Science and Public Health (2017) (3)
- The better half of the resource-based relative value scale. (1990) (3)
- Introductory guest editorial (1987) (2)
- Ethics, Technology, and the Human Genome Project (1991) (2)
- A new ethic for medicine? (1998) (2)
- Legislative ban on assisted suicide: impact on Michigan's medical practice. (1993) (2)
- Assisted Suicide for Those Not Terminally Ill (2001) (2)
- Psychosomatic oral problems. (1967) (2)
- FAMILY CONSENT TO ORDERS NOT TO RESUSCITATE. AUTOR'S REPLIES (1991) (2)
- Chauncey Leake and the Development of Bioethics in America (2014) (2)
- Methods of Practical Ethics (2013) (2)
- Are There Three or Four Distinct Types of Medical Practice? (2006) (2)
- Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. (1996) (2)
- In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (1989) (2)
- Ethics and Professionalism in Surgery (2012) (2)
- The AAFP Access Plan: Getting It Almost Right (1992) (2)
- Can Relationships Heal — At a Reasonable Cost? (2000) (2)
- 3. The Commercialization of Medical Decisions: Physicians and Patients at Risk (2010) (1)
- Is it beneficial for ethics committee functions to be mandated in statutes and/or regulations? (1992) (1)
- Letter: Teaching students how to talk and act with patients. (1974) (1)
- The skilled specialist's ethical duty to treat. (1994) (1)
- Asking Hard Questions: Engaging Equity and Inquiry for Professional Development (2014) (1)
- Computerized encounter registers in primary care research: Is there a gold standard? (1988) (1)
- Is there a treatment for cynicism? Expanding moral conversation from health care to the public sphere. (1996) (1)
- The Place of Ethics in Health Care Reform (1994) (1)
- Medical Education, Accreditation, and the Nation’s Health: Reflections of an Atypical Dean (1992) (1)
- Moral Values In Health Care Reform: Implications For Family Practice (1994) (1)
- The role of the family in medical decisions. Introductory editorial. (1987) (1)
- Approach to the Patient (1998) (1)
- The Doctor's Dilemma (2002) (1)
- Ethics in managed care. A matter of focus, a matter of integrity. (1998) (1)
- Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest. (2006) (1)
- Physicians pursuing the humanities: Benefits and barriers (1994) (1)
- Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest. Authors' reply (2006) (1)
- Access to health care for the uninsured: the American Academy of Family Physicians. (1991) (1)
- Informed refusal (1996) (1)
- Family Consent to Orders Not to Resuscitate-Reply (1991) (1)
- Methodological difficulties in dying. (1988) (1)
- Confronting a colleague who covers up a medical error. (2006) (1)
- The Patient Package Insert (1976) (1)
- Ethics: A Theory of Medical Ethics. (1982) (1)
- The New Medical Ethics (1986) (1)
- Studies in recurrent oral aphthae. II. Lysozyme levels from the parotid and submaxillary gland. (1969) (1)
- Ethics and Editors (1974) (0)
- Reviewers for The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice in 1992 (1993) (0)
- Managed care bashing. (1998) (0)
- Managed Care: Ethical Issues-Reply (1995) (0)
- TheInverseBenefitLaw:HowDrugMarketingUnderminesPatient SafetyandPublicHealth (2011) (0)
- The Risks of Prozac - Why We Don’t Know Them (2004) (0)
- Futile care treatment: perspectives from the United States and United Kingdom. (1998) (0)
- Health Care Reform (1994) (0)
- Greenbaum Disease: A Nonlinguistic Entity (1976) (0)
- Ethics by the Numbers: Monitoring Physicians’ Integrity in Managed Care (1998) (0)
- The Culture of Pain (1992) (0)
- PHILOSOPHY O F M EDICINE A ND O THER H UMANITIES: TOWARD A WHOLISTIC VIEW (1985) (0)
- MEDICAL NARRATIVE The House of God—Is It Pertinent 30 Years Later? (2011) (0)
- MEDICINE AND SOCIETY New Forces Shaping the Patient-Physician Relationship (2009) (0)
- Professionalism versus Antiharassment in Student Evaluation (2014) (0)
- Living wills in Michigan. Why the time is right. (1990) (0)
- Should a clinical trial coordinator blow the whistle? (2004) (0)
- The David Rivlin case. Implications for Michigan physicians. (1989) (0)
- Influence Of The Pharmaceutical Industry On Research And Clinical Care (2014) (0)
- Letter to the Editor-in-Chief (1991) (0)
- Efforts to Undermine Public Heatlh The Inverse Benefit Law : How Drug Marketing Undermines Patient Safety and Public Health (2011) (0)
- Health Care Reform–Reply–I (1994) (0)
- Ethical Issues in Family Medicine (2005) (0)
- Peabody’s “Care of the Patient” and the Nature of Medical Science (2015) (0)
- Single-Payer System (1993) (0)
- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE 2007-2008 VOTING MEMBERS (2008) (0)
- Culham case not the first of its kind. (1988) (0)
- How Virtue Ethics Informs Medical Professionalism (2012) (0)
- Letter: The "patient package insert". (1976) (0)
- Activism? Yes! The AMA? Maybe Not. (2004) (0)
- Among Stress, Maternal Psychological Functioning, and Family Relationships (2016) (0)
- Teamwork And Informed Consent (1992) (0)
- Informed consent, shared decision-making, and the ethics committee (2012) (0)
- DRGs and ethics: one physician's opinion. (1987) (0)
- The healer's power: the dark side of the force--a conference. (1993) (0)
- Book review (1991) (0)
- Are pay-for-performance programs a threat to medical professionalism? (2008) (0)
- The boy who cried unicorn: a parable. (2005) (0)
- A Theory of Medical Ethics (1982) (0)
- Commentary on “Error, Malpractice, and the Problem of Universals” (1982) (0)
- #195 Nondisclosure of HIV/HCV in a coinfected hemophilic male: medical and ethical dilemma (1999) (0)
- Snow and the Broad Street pump: a rediscovery (2000) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers2005 (2005) (0)
- Is it beneficial for ethics committee functions to be mandated in statutes and/or regulations? (1992) (0)
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: Family Issues (1995) (0)
- Teaching the history of medicine by case study and small group discussion (1991) (0)
- The Culham decision: treatment withdrawal in Mich. (1988) (0)
- CPR-not-indicated and futility. (1996) (0)
- It's almost over--more letters on Debbie. (1988) (0)
- Health Care Reform (1994) (0)
- Letter: Greenbaum disease: a nonlinguistic entity. (1976) (0)
- Predicting the outcome from hypoxic-ischemic coma: ethical implications. (1986) (0)
- Possibilities and perils: The new era of direct-access diagnostic tests (2002) (0)
- ETHICS CASE Professionalism versus Antiharassment in Student Evaluation (2014) (0)
- Update: terminal care decisions in Michigan. (1986) (0)
- Physician-assisted suicide: a very personal issue. (1997) (0)
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