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Community Voices in Medical Ethics

We are a diverse, Boston-based group of citizens providing feedback on medical ethics policies to the Harvard teaching hospitals. Community Voices and its affiliate Community Ethics Committee give the multiple communities of Boston a voice in the care they rely on. Investigate our blog, read our reports, and add your voice!

Publications of CEC

The Community Ethics Committee has published a number of white papers that are available for download.   Please note that these reports should be read in their entirety.   For any replication or duplication please contact medethicsandme@gmail.com.
  • CEC Report on Access to Medical Care for Undocumented and Uninsured Immigrants
    March 2019
  • CEC Report on Palliated and Assisted Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking November 2016
  • CEC Report on Medical Decision-Making for Unknown & Unrepresented Patients March 2016
  • CEC Report on Organ Transplant Recipient Listing Criteria February 2014
  • CEC Recommendations to Massachusetts DPH on Palliative Care, Information and Counseling for End-of-Life Treatment November 2013
  • Medical Futility: Strategies for Dispute Resolution when Expectations and Limits of Treatment Collide   January 2013
  • Prescribing Medicine to End Life: A Conversation Guide  September 2012
  • CEC Executive Summary of White Paper: Choosing Medically Induced Death July 2012
  • CEC White Paper: Choosing Medically Induced Death  July 2012
  • CEC Report on Advocacy for Human Research Participants July 2011 submitted to PCOBI:
  • CEC Report on Palliative Sedation 02102011:
  • CEC Report on pDCD 042008
  • CEC Report on Social Media 03112010:
  • CEC Report on Withholding Non-therapeutic CPR 022009:
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Michelle DeBinion de Contreras gives her perspective as a recent member of the Community Ethics Committee. She comments on the ethical scandal regarding syphilis research conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s which the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has recently addressed. ---
Yvonne Joyner explains how she became involved in the work of the Community Ethics Committee. She shares her point of view on the ethical complexities surrounding the use of CPR on patients at the end of life, and remarks on the difficulty of ethical consideration of children's organ donation. Yvonne gives her perspective on the Tuskegee syphilis study, noting the importance of sensitivity to racial differences in a full understanding of both this scandal and the Guatemalan syphilis research of the 1940s.

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