Stuart J. Youngner
American medical professor
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Stuart J. Youngner's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stuart J. Youngner is Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received his BA from Swarthmore. and his MD from Case, where he also did an internship in pediatrics and a residency in psychiatry. Youngner subsequently studied bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in the areas of definitions of death, ethics of organ transplantation and procurement, clinical ethics consultation, and end-of-life decision making.
Stuart J. Youngner's Published Works
Published Works
- Consensus statement on the live organ donor. (2000) (540)
- The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families (1994) (444)
- Who defines futility? (1988) (306)
- 'Brain death' and organ retrieval. A cross-sectional survey of knowledge and concepts among health professionals. (1989) (263)
- Drs. Sullivan and Youngner Reply (1995) (217)
- Health Care Ethics Consultation: Nature, Goals, and Competencies: A Position Paper from the Society for Health and Human ValuesSociety for Bioethics Consultation Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation (2000) (215)
- Do Formal Advance Directives Affect Resuscitation Decisions and the Use of Resources for Seriously Ill Patients? (1994) (183)
- Death and organ procurement: public beliefs and attitudes. (2004) (177)
- Choices of Seriously Ill Patients About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (1996) (158)
- Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is it Wrong to Erase the “Sting” of Bad Memories? (2007) (150)
- The Dead Donor Rule: Should We Stretch It, Bend It, or Abandon It? (1993) (148)
- Depression, competence, and the right to refuse lifesaving medical treatment. (1994) (146)
- Choices of seriously ill patients about cardiopulmonary resuscitation: correlates and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. (1996) (139)
- 'Do not resuscitate' orders. Incidence and implications in a medical-intensive care unit. (1985) (136)
- Ethical incentives--not payment--for organ donation. (2002) (135)
- Physician burnout in pediatric critical care medicine. (1995) (134)
- Increased risk of death in patients with do-not-resuscitate orders. (1999) (134)
- Ethical, psychosocial, and public policy implications of procuring organs from non-heart-beating cadaver donors. (1993) (127)
- Patient autonomy and "death with dignity": some clinical caveats. (1979) (120)
- When is "dead"? (1999) (119)
- When Doctors Marry Doctors: A Survey Exploring the Professional and Family Lives of Young Physicians (1999) (111)
- Psychosocial and ethical implications of organ retrieval. (1985) (105)
- The definition of death : contemporary controversies (1999) (102)
- Quality attestation for clinical ethics consultants: a two-step model from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. (2013) (101)
- A national survey of hospital ethics committees (1983) (98)
- Human death and high technology: the failure of the whole-brain formulations. (1983) (98)
- Financial incentives for cadaver organ donation: an ethical reappraisal1 (2002) (92)
- Variation in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders in patients with stroke. (1997) (90)
- Do-not-resuscitate orders: no longer secret, but still a problem. (1987) (88)
- Is economic hardship on the families of the seriously ill associated with patient and surrogate care preferences? SUPPORT Investigators. (1996) (79)
- Ethics guidelines for research with the recently dead (2005) (77)
- Death and Organ Procurement: Public Beliefs and Attitudes (2004) (75)
- Philosophical debates about the definition of death: who cares? (2001) (73)
- Futility in context. (1990) (61)
- The OHRP and SUPPORT. (2013) (61)
- Transfer of the hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient to the intensive care unit: does it really matter? (2006) (61)
- Human Death and the Destruction of the Neocortex (1988) (54)
- A Pilot Evaluation of Portfolios for Quality Attestation of Clinical Ethics Consultants (2016) (53)
- For experts only? Access to hospital ethics committees. (1991) (50)
- Evaluation of a treatment limitation policy with a specific treatment-limiting order page. (1994) (50)
- Defining death. A superficial and fragile consensus. (1992) (49)
- Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (2005) (47)
- Intrinsic Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research: A Need for Disclosure (2003) (46)
- Patient-satisfaction surveys on a scale of 0 to 10: improving health care, or leading it astray? (2015) (45)
- Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice (2003) (44)
- ICU visiting policies (1984) (44)
- Organ transplantation : meanings and realities (1996) (43)
- Physicians’ Quantitative Assessments of Medical Futility (1994) (38)
- Time is of the essence: the pressing need for comprehensive non-heart-beating cadaveric donation policies. (1995) (37)
- One or two types of death? Attitudes of health professionals towards brain death and donation after circulatory death in three countries (2013) (36)
- Back to the Future: Obtaining Organs from Non-Heart-Beating Cadavers (1993) (35)
- Should physicians withhold highly active antiretroviral therapies from HIV-AIDS patients who are thought to be poorly adherent to treatment? (2001) (35)
- Prior capacity of patients lacking decision making ability early in hospitalization (1994) (34)
- In our best interests: experience and working of an ethics review committee. (1986) (34)
- Risk‐based decision making and ethical considerations in donor compensation for plasma‐derived medicinal products (2016) (33)
- Some Must Die (2003) (33)
- Chronic Factitious Illness: A Behavioral Approach (1984) (32)
- Organ retrieval: can we ignore the dark side? (1990) (31)
- DNR in the operating room. Not really a paradox. (1991) (28)
- Staff attitudes towards the care of the critically ill in the medical intensive care unit (1979) (27)
- Clinical ethics consultation (1995) (27)
- Patients' Attitudes toward Hospital Ethics Committees (1984) (26)
- Should psychiatrists serve as gatekeepers for physician-assisted suicide? (1998) (26)
- The Definition of Death (2009) (25)
- Casting light and doubt on uncontrolled DCDD protocols. (2013) (24)
- Organ salvage policies. A need for better data and more insightful ethics. (1994) (24)
- Applying Futility: Saying No Is Not Enough (1994) (23)
- Psychological impediments to procurement. (1992) (21)
- Who will watch the watchers? (2002) (20)
- Prosecutors and end-of-life decision making. (1999) (19)
- “Allow natural death” is not equivalent to “do not resuscitate”: a response (2008) (18)
- End-of-life decisions : a psychosocial perspective (1998) (18)
- The Texas Advanced Directive Law: Unfinished Business (2015) (17)
- Resolving Problems at the Intensive Care Unit/Oncology Unit Interface (2015) (16)
- Pig experiment challenges assumptions around brain damage in people (2019) (16)
- Dialysis patient attitudes toward financial incentives for kidney donation. (1997) (15)
- Ethical, psychosocial, and public policy implications of procuring organs from non-heart beating cadavers. (1993) (15)
- Clinical Ethics Consultation: Examining how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimer's case (2008) (14)
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry and clinical ethics. Historical parallels and diversions. (1997) (14)
- Two distinct Do-Not-Resuscitate protocols leaving less to the imagination: an observational study using propensity score matching (2014) (13)
- A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship. (2016) (13)
- Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Assessing the Dutch Experience (2012) (12)
- Evolution of a Remedial CME Course in Professionalism: Addressing Learner Needs, Developing Content, and Evaluating Outcomes (2013) (12)
- Should individuals choose their definition of death? (2008) (12)
- Treatment and care of "do not resuscitate" patients in a medical intensive care unit. (1985) (11)
- An annotated bibliography for ethics training in consultation-liaison psychiatry. (1999) (10)
- Factors Associated With Two Different Protocols of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in a Medical ICU* (2014) (10)
- Psychological problems of medical students during a core psychiatry clerkship. (1978) (9)
- Patient autonomy, informed consent, and the reality of critical care. (1986) (8)
- Beyond DNR (1995) (8)
- A Call for a Patient-Centered Response to Legalized Assisted Dying (2016) (8)
- Orchestrating a dignified death in the intensive-care unit. (1990) (8)
- PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE AS A CAREER (1994) (8)
- How to Communicate Clearly about Brain Death and First-Person Consent to Donate. (2016) (7)
- Decision making in SUPPORT: sentinel decisions. (1990) (7)
- Response to Open Commentaries for “Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is It Wrong to Erase the ‘Sting’ of Bad Memories?” (2007) (7)
- Informed consent to tissue donation: policies and practice (2009) (7)
- Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy and Practice (2003) (6)
- Family wishes and patient autonomy. (1980) (6)
- Brain death and organ procurement : some vexing problems remain (1990) (6)
- Implementing the Patient Self-Determination Act. (1993) (6)
- The Outcome of Patients With 2 Different Protocols of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders (2015) (5)
- A Physician/Ethicist Responds: A Student's Rights Are Not So Simple (1992) (5)
- Thoughts of Hastening Death among Hospice Patients (2000) (5)
- Moving the Conversation Forward (1999) (5)
- School DNAR in the Real World (2005) (5)
- Neonatal Organ and Tissue Donation for Research: Options Following Death by Natural Causes (2020) (4)
- HealthCare Ethics Forum '94: ethics committees: living up to your potential. (1994) (4)
- Human Values in Critical Care Medicine (1986) (4)
- Disclosure of adverse outcomes in medicine: A questionnaire study on voice intention and behaviour of physicians in Germany, Japan and the USA (2016) (4)
- Brain death and organ transplantation: confusion and its consequences. (1994) (3)
- The Stakes Are Not Very High in This Game (2007) (3)
- Two times what? Quantity and quality of life in tube feeding decisions. (1997) (3)
- An Ongoing Conversation: The Task Force Report and Bioethics Consultation (1999) (3)
- Nonfinancial conflicts of interest in research. (2002) (3)
- When slippery slope arguments miss the mark: a lesson from one against physician-assisted death (2018) (3)
- Medical futility. (1996) (3)
- Poverty: Not a Justification for Banning Physician-Assisted Death. (2018) (3)
- Character and ethics consultation: Even the ethicists don't agree (2003) (3)
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: Finding a Path Forward in a Changing Legal Environment (2017) (2)
- Drawing the line in brain death. (1987) (2)
- A Model System Works: Looking Deeper than Suicide (1993) (2)
- Kidney donation from brain-injured patients before a declaration of death (2010) (2)
- Orchestrating a dignified death in the intensive-care unit. (1990) (2)
- Protocols for uncontrolled donation after circulatory death – Authors' reply (2012) (2)
- Autonomy and the need to preserve life. (1982) (2)
- Editorial: The Language of the Marketplace and the Language of Medical Care (2015) (2)
- Fatal outcome in untreated adolescent ulcerative colitis: an unusual case of child neglect. (1983) (2)
- Special issue: Death and organ procurement: Public beliefs and attitudes - Introduction (2004) (1)
- The Smell of Chlorine (2016) (1)
- MANDATED CHOICE FOR ORGAN DONATION. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (1)
- Bureaucratizing suicide. (2000) (1)
- Clinical Ethics Consultation: Attention to Cultural and Historic Context (2008) (1)
- How Can You Be Transparent About Labeling the Living as Dead? (2017) (1)
- Clinical ethics and cost containment: promises and pitfalls. (1992) (1)
- Comprar The Oxford Handbook Of Ethics At The End Of Life | Stuart J. Youngner | 9780199974412 | OXFORD (2016) (1)
- Ellen Grass Memorial Lecture: Brain Death: Useful Myth or Problem Waiting to Happen? (2015) (1)
- Phase II: influencing decision making in SUPPORT. (1990) (1)
- The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects who are Mentally Ill (2006) (1)
- DNR in the OR-Reply (1992) (1)
- When Requests Do Not Result in Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide. (2012) (1)
- The Psychological and Moral Consequences of Participating in Human Fetal-Tissue Research (1993) (1)
- Family Wishes And Patient Autonomy: Commentary (1980) (1)
- DNR IN THE OR. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1992) (1)
- Ethical and social perspectives in critical care. (1983) (1)
- Commentary on "Is Mr. Spock Mentally Competent ?" (1998) (1)
- Classification and Definitions: Dutch Developments (2012) (1)
- Organizational ethics: promises and pitfalls (2003) (1)
- Dilemmas in Practice: Implementing the Patient Self-Determination Act (1993) (1)
- Voluntary Organ Donation: Autonomy... Tragedy-Reply (1993) (1)
- Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do (2020) (0)
- ‘THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE: The Right to End-of-Life Care’ (2003) (0)
- The Future of Psychiatry (1990) (0)
- ? Seeing ethics committees as the locus of competing responsibilities allows us to respond to the questions posed by a patient rights model and to acknowledge more the complex moral dynamics of clinical medicine (2003) (0)
- Bending the rules that bent the rules. (1996) (0)
- Withdrawing treatment in the persistent vegetative state. (1994) (0)
- 'Do Not Resuscitate' Orders-Reply (1985) (0)
- Neonatal Organ and Tissue Donation for Research: Options Following Death by Natural Causes (2020) (0)
- Nontreatment of fever. (1979) (0)
- Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Texas Advanced Directive Law: Unfinished Business” (2015) (0)
- AGS Survey Actually Supports Engaged Neutrality for Physician‐Assisted Death (2020) (0)
- Matters of "life" and "death". (2006) (0)
- One or two types of death? Attitudes of health professionals towards brain death and donation after circulatory death in three countries (2011) (0)
- REFUSING LIFESAVING TREATMENT. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (0)
- Talking about death is not the same as communicating about death (2015) (0)
- Reappraisal of DNR Orders in Long-term-Care Institutions-Reply (1989) (0)
- Primary Topic Article (2014) (0)
- Ethics Without Borders? Why The United States Needs an International Dialogue on Living Organ Donation (2014) (0)
- Antitumor Activity ofaBrucella abortus Preparation (1977) (0)
- Bioethical Issues in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (2004) (0)
- Editorial statement (2003) (0)
- BURNOUT IN PEDIATRIC INTENSIVISTS (1994) (0)
- Ethical issue in tissue banking and transplantation (2004) (0)
- For Experts Only? Access to Hospital Committees (1991) (0)
- DEMOGRAPHICS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVISTS (1994) (0)
- SURVEY OF HOUSE OFFICER AND TEACHING FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARD PATIENT AUTONOMY IN AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (1980) (0)
- PATIENT AUTONOMY AND THE RIGHT TO DIE: SOME CLINICAL CAVEATS (1979) (0)
- Disagreement About Consent (2006) (0)
- Compositions that cold adapted equine influenza viruses containing, for the treatment of existing viral infections of the respiratory system (2001) (0)
- New Pathways for European Bioethics (2008) (0)
- Task Force on Standards for Ethics Consultation: Response to “Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?” (CQ Vol 2, No 4) (1996) (0)
- Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Quality Assurance (2012) (0)
- REGIONAL SURVCY OF INTENSIVE CARE UNIT VISITING POLICIES (1983) (0)
- The Authors Reply. (2015) (0)
- When Should We Accept Consent (2006) (0)
- Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Introduction (2012) (0)
- To the Editor (2010) (0)
- Pig experiment challenges assumptions around brain damage in people (2019) (0)
- Ethical Issues in Neurology (1996) (0)
- Fine-tuning the future. (2010) (0)
- DNR ORDERS IN A MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (MICU): INCIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS (1984) (0)
- 4734 Endoscopists' perspective on percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement. (2000) (0)
- Mandated Choice for Organ Donation-Reply (1995) (0)
- Conflicts of Interest and Informed Consent (2006) (0)
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