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The breadth of bioethics: core areas of bioethics education for hospital ethics committeesT May
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226 0509, USA
J Med Philos 26:101-18. 2001..At the same time, I evaluate the range of issues examined in each area of the book, in the context of the book's ability to provide an introduction to each area...- Social restrictions on informed consent: research ethics and medical decision makingThomas May
Graduate Program in Bioethics, Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
HEC Forum 16:38-44. 2004 - Public communication, risk perception, and the viability of preventive vaccination against communicable diseasesThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Bioethics 19:407-21. 2005..The paper concludes with an examination of the steps necessary to resolve these threats through better public communication... - Access to hospitals in the wake of terrorism: challenges and needs for maintaining public confidenceThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
Disaster Manag Response 4:67-71. 2006..Importantly, these challenges are related to features of terrorist events that distinguish such events from circumstances of "normal" surge that might result in, for example, closure of emergency rooms... - Free-riding, fairness and the rights of minority groups in exemption from mandatory childhood vaccinationThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Hum Vaccin 1:12-5. 2005..To avoid this unacceptable choice, steps must be taken now to more stringently enforce exemption requirements... 
Expanding Bioshield: a call for cautionThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Am J Public Health 97:S23-5. 2007..However, at the same time, both practical and ethical considerations argue that the good that might be achieved through expanded patent protections come at costs that make this strategy unacceptable...- Viewpoint: IRBs, hospital ethics committees, and the need for "translational informed consent"Thomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Acad Med 82:670-4. 2007.... - 'Clustering of exemptions' as a collective action threat to herd immunityThomas May
Medical College of Wisconsin, Watertown Plank Road, PO Box 26509, Milwaukee, WI 53226 0509, USA
Vaccine 21:1048-51. 2003..Given the growing number of exemptions and the increasing visibility of the anti-vaccine movement, policy makers must be vigilant for dangerous clustering in order to avoid loss of herd immunity... - Do healthcare professionals have an obligation to be vaccinated against smallpox?Thomas May
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
APA Newsl Philos Med 2:209-12. 2003 - Funding agendas: has bioterror defense been over-prioritized?Thomas May
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:34-44. 2005..S. population?.. - Should smallpox vaccine be made available to the general public?Thomas May
Graduate Program in Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 13:67-82. 2003..In the even of a terror-related outbreak of smallpox, the general public's access to voluntary vaccination would become justified, even in areas beyond where the outbreak has occurred... - The smallpox vaccination of health care workers: professional obligations and defense against bioterrorismThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 33:26-33. 2003 
Personal morality and professional obligations: rights of conscience and informed consentThomas May
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Perspect Biol Med 52:30-8. 2009..Sanctioning such claims of conscience not only would supplant one person's moral judgment with another's, it would also allow professional standing to be used as a justification for imposing one person's moral views on another...- Isolation is not the answerThomas May
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Nature 429:603. 2004 - Quality of life, justice, and the demands of hospital-based nursingThomas May
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Public Aff Q 19:213-25. 2005 - Political authority in a bioterror emergencyThomas May
Graduate Programs in Bioethics, Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:159-63. 2004 - The urban and community health pathway: preparing socially responsive physicians through community-engaged learningLinda N Meurer
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:S228-36. 2011..The UCHP enriches the traditional curriculum with individualized, community-based experiences to build knowledge about health determinants and skills in partnering with communities to improve health... - Vaccines as community-focused therapyThomas May
Expert Rev Vaccines 2:341-3. 2003 - Bioterrorism defense prioritiesThomas May
Science 301:17. 2003 - Ethics, pandemics, and the duty to treatHeidi Malm
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:4-19. 2008..Ultimately, it argues that none of the defenses is currently sufficient to ground the kind of duty that would be needed in a pandemic. It concludes by sketching some practical recommendations in that regard... - Bioterror and public health infrastructure: a response to commentatorsThomas May
Am J Bioeth 6:W29-31. 2006 - Terror and triage: prioritizing access to mass smallpox vaccinationRoss D Silverman
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA
Creighton Law Rev 36:359-74. 2003..Only in this way can those most vulnerable--the previously unvaccinated--be protected from a significantly increased risk due to delays that might arise in executing the CDC plan...