The following articles appeared in the literature over the past few months and might be of interest to the readers of HCEUSA.

Vital Conflicts: Pregnancy and Pulmonary Hypertension
Austriaco, N. P.G. "Abortion in a Case of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 3 (Autumn 2011): 503-518.

Flannery, K. "Vital Conflicts and the Catholic Magisterial Tradition." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 4 (Winter 2011):691-704.

Guevin, B. "Vital Conflicts and Virtue Ethics." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 4 (Winter 2011):679-688.

Rhonheimer, M. "Vital Conflicts, Direct Killing, and Justice." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 3 (Autumn 2011): 519-540.

Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
Bedford, E. "Of Food and Water and the Obligation to Provide: John Paul II and Christian Anthropology." Christian Bioethics 17, no. 2 (August 2011): 105-122.

Bishop, J. and E. Bedford. "Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration: The Vegetative State and Beyond." Christian Bioethics 17, no. 2 (August 2011): 97-104.

Blandford, J. "An Examination of the Revisionist Challenge to the Catholic Tradition on Providing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration to Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State." Christian Bioethics 17, no. 2 (August 2011): 153-164.

Perry, J. "May Alzheimer's Patients Refuse Tube Feeding? Yet More Questions on the Papal Allocution — and Perhaps an Answer." Christian Bioethics 17, no. 2 (August 2011): 123-139.

Health Care Reform
Berwick, D. and A.D. Hackbarth. "Eliminating Waste in U.S. Health Care." JAMA 307, no. 14 (April 11, 2012): 1513-16.

Scheffler, R.M. et al. "Accountable Care Organizations and Antitrust: Restructuring the Health Care Market." JAMA 307, no. 14 (April 11, 2012):1493-94.

Singer, S. and S. Shortell. "Implementing Accountable Care Organizations: Ten Potential Mistakes and How to Learn from Them." JAMA 306, no. 7 (August 17, 2011):758-59.

End-of-Life
Nicholas, L.H. et al. "Regional Variation in the Association between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Expenditures." JAMA 306, no. 13 (October 5, 2011): 1447-53.

Quill, T. E. and R. Holloway. "Time-Limited Trials near the End of Life." JAMA 306, no. 13 (October 5, 2011): 1483-84.

Decision-Making
Beauchamp, T. "Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Present Challenges." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20, no. 4 (October 2011):515-523.

Pope, T.M. and Tanya Sellers. "Legal Briefing: The Unbefriended: Making Healthcare Decisions for patients without Surrogates (Part 1)." The Journal of Clinical Ethics 23, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 84-96.

Sessums, L.L., Zembrzuska, H. and J.L. Jackson. "Does this Patient Have Medical Decision-Making Capacity?" JAMA 306, no. 4 (July 27, 2011): 420-427.

Physician-Patient Relationship
Bardes, C.L. "Defining Patient-Centered Medicine." NEJM 306, no. 9 (March 1, 2012): 782-83.

Barry, M.J. and S. Edgman-Levitan. "Shared Decision-Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care." NEJM 366, no. 9 (March 1, 2012): 780-81.

Truog, R. "Patients and Doctors — The Evolution of a Relationship." NEJM 366, no. 7 (February 16, 2012): 581-85.

Varia
Austriaco, N. P.G. "Scientific Certitude, Moral Certitude, and Plan B." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 623-27.

Austriaco, N. P.G. "How Levenorgestrel Works." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 212-213.

Capuzzi, K., Clark, P. and N. Mohammed. "Case Study: Undocumented Patients." Hastings Center Report 42, no. 1 (January-February 2012): 15-16.

Repenshek, M. "Therapeutic Access to the Embryo." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 735-756.

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