Lois L. Shepherd

University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics

Box 800758

Charlottesville, VA 22901

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University of Virginia School of Law

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Charlottesville, VA 22903

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1.

Shattering the Neutral Surrogate Myth in End-of-Life Decisionmaking: Terri Schiavo and Her Family

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Feb 2005
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 423 (148,454)

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End-of-life, Schiavo, surrogate, family, persistent vegetative state, life-sustaining treatment, incompetent patient, treatment withdrawal, mediation, artificial nutrition and hydration, Pinette, proxy, feeding tube, permanently unconscious, self-determination, neutrality

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Looking Forward with the Right of Privacy

Number of pages: 107 Posted: 19 May 2000
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 407 (154,768)

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In Respect of People Living in a Permanent Vegetative State - and Allowing Them to Die

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 08 Apr 2005
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 364 (175,184)
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dying, vegetative, death, feeding, nutrition, hydration, schiavo, pvs, disability, unconscious, life-sustaining, life-prolonging, surrogate, proxy, tube, presumption, instrument, object, coma, florida, cruzan, life support, tube feeding, gastronomy, advance directive, living will, patient rights

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Face to Face: A Call for Radical Responsibility in Place of Compassion

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 07 Apr 2003
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 335 (191,831)
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The End of End-of-Life Law

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1693, 2014, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-35
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 256 (254,341)
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end-of-life, advance care planning, surrogate decision-making, life-sustaining treatment, life-prolonging procedures, living wills, dying, health care decisions, patient preferences, patient autonomy, pinette, artificial nutrition and hydration, futility, disability, right to know, best interests

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Aging Populations and Public Health Ethics

Oxford Handbooks Online 10 January 2019 The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics Edited by Anna C. Mastroianni, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and Nancy E. Kass, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-02
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Jan 2020
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
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healthy aging, aging in place, health inequities, public health ethics, social justice, aging populations

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The Over-Medicalization and Corrupted Medicalization of Abortion and Its Effect on Women Living in Poverty

Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Lois L. Shepherd and Hilary Turner
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and University of Virginia - School of Law, Alumnus or Degree Candidate Author
Downloads 202 (319,847)
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Abortion, TRAP Laws, Women’s Health, Poverty, Medicalization, Whole Woman’s Health

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Terri Schiavo and the Disability Rights Community

University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2006, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 188
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 199 (324,215)

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schiavo, profoundly disabled, developmentally disabled, disability, disability rights, end of life, nutrition, hydration, feeding tube, persistent vegetative state, permanent vegetative state, pouloit, cantor, dignity, bodily integrity, best interests, life support, life-sustaining treatment

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Asking Too Much: Autonomy and Responsibility at the End of Life

Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, Vol. 26, p. 72, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 196 (328,789)

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autonomy, patient, end-of-life, life-sustaining treatment, hand feeding, futile treatment, suicide, minimally conscious, michael martin, advance directive, living will, health care proxy, patient responsibility, patient rights, Wooltorton, Motl Brody, surrogate decision-making, substituted judgment

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Medical Research Without Consent? It’s Like Dé Jà Vu All Over Again

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 99, Issue 3 (2024)., Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-51
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 10 Jul 2023
Lois L. Shepherd and Donna T. Chen
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
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human subjects research; informed consent; research ethics; research regulation; Common Rule; comparative effectiveness; research injury; research risk; doctor-patient relationship; medical battery; fiduciary duty

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Rethinking Health Law: Assuming Responsibility

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 189
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
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health law, responsibility, autonomy, rights, duty, health care, medicine, medical care, health care access, trust, suffering, goals of medicine, consumer-driven health care, patients, health habits, vulnerability

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Terri Schiavo: Unsettling the Settled

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 165
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Sep 2005
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 171 (371,949)
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Schiavo, end-of-life, surrogate, nutrition and hydration, persistent vegetative state, permanent vegetative state, permanently unconscious, minimally conscious state, life-prolonging procedures, treatment refusal, life-sustaining procedures, hand feeding, tube feeding, proxy, right to life, Cruzan

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Patient-Centered Health Law and Ethics

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-34
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Oct 2010
Lois L. Shepherd and Mark A. Hall
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and Wake Forest University - School of Law
Downloads 155 (404,827)

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Patient-Centered, Health Law, Trust, Illness, Suffering, Academic Health Law, Patient-Individualized, Vulnerability, Patient Autonomy, Health Care Delivery, Relational, Centered, Healing Relationships

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In Plain Sight: A Solution to a Fundamental Challenge in Human Research

Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-54
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 24 May 2014
Lois L. Shepherd and Margaret Foster Riley
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 154 (406,989)

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conflict of interest, research, physician, investigator, medical monitors, institutional review boards, research ethics, research subject advocate, clinical research, biomedical research, clinical trials, therapeutic misconception, informed consent, patient-subject, Belmont Report, risk/benefit

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State Legislative Proposals Following Schiavo: What are They Thinking?

Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Vol. 15, 2006, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 193
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 118 (502,995)

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schiavo, end-of-life, living will, starvation, dehyrdration, will to live, right to life, patient choice, liberty, permanent vegetative state, advance directive, life-sustaining treatment, nutrition, hydration, life-prolonging treatment, persistent vegetative state, right to die, cruzan

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Organ Procurement Now: Does the United States Still 'Opt in?'

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-29
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 May 2017
Leili Monfared and Lois L. Shepherd
Research Foundation and University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 112 (523,177)

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organ donation, organ procurement, opt-out, opt-in, presumed consent, deceased body, human organ, transplant, mandated choice, donor registry

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Different Ways to Understand Patient-Centered Health Law

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-35
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 26 Oct 2010
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 110 (530,246)

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Health Law, Patient-Centered, Patient Autonomy, Health Care Consumer, Patient, Reasonable Patient, Family-Centered, Relational, Centering

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HIV, the Ada, and the Duty to Serve

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 05 Dec 2000
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 103 (556,635)

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Rationing Health Care at the End of Life

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2017
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 92 (599,917)

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rationing, end-of-life, health care, medical spending, death panels, health care reform

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Informed Consent for Comparative Effectiveness Research Should Include Risks of Standard Care

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 45 (2017): 352-364
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 91 (604,043)
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comparative effectiveness research, research on medical practices, usual care studies, research ethics, informed consent, SUPPORT Study, pragmatic trials, standard of care studies, randomized clinical trials

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Welcome, Healing, and Ethics

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Aug 2015
Lois L. Shepherd and Margaret Mohrmann
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and University of Virginia - School of Medicine
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bioethics, welcome, responsibility, health law, relationship-centered, professionalism, healing, Payton v. Weaver, disruptive patient, difficult patient, medical ethics, clinical ethics, dialysis patient

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Heroes, Lawyers, and Writers - A Review of Two Schiavo Books

Nova Law Review, 2007 , FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 255
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Lois L. Shepherd
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Downloads 71 (697,510)

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Schiavo, Gibbs, Colby, Cruzan, feeding tube, end-of-life, right to die, right to life, life-sustaining treatment, right to refuse treatment, life support, unplugged, book review

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Erosion of Informed Consent in U.S. Research

Bioethics 2018:1-9
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Jun 2020
Lois L. Shepherd and Ruth Macklin
University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Downloads 31 (1,007,568)

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comparative effectiveness studies, informed consent, organ transplantation research, research subjects

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Rethinking Health Law

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 41, p. 341, 2006, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 905887, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 204
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Mark A. Hall, Carl E. Schneider and Lois L. Shepherd
Wake Forest University - School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics

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