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: