Ethics
Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, FAAN
Mitchell C, Truog R. Series Editors, Cases from the Harvard Ethics Consortium, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2002-ongoing
Trachsel M, Mitchell C, Biller-Andorno N. Advance directives—conflict between individualism and paternalism, chapter for publication in Advance Directives: Ethical Issues from an International Perspective, by Lack, P., Biller-Andorno, N., & Brauer, S. (Eds.). Berlin: Springer, forthcoming 2013
Trachsel M, Mitchell C, Biller-Andorno N. Decision-making incapacity at the end of life: conceptual and ethical challenges. Bioethics Forum, 2012
Brown SD, Mitchell C, Sayeed SA, et al. Consulting Pediatricians and Judges: Differing Attitudes of Fetal Care Pediatric and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialists, Pediatrics 2012
Streuli, J, Kohler, B, Werner-Rosen, K, Mitchell C. DSD and Professionalism from a Multilateral View - Supplementing the consensus statement on the basis of a qualitative survey. Advances in Urology. 206; 2012
Brown, SD, Ecker JL, Ward, JRM, Halpern EF, Sayeed SA, Buchmiller TL, Mitchell C, Donelan K. Prenatally diagnosed fetal conditions in the age of fetal care: does who counsels matter? American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2012, e1-e11
Burns J, Mitchell C. Do not resuscitate orders and redirection of treatment. Chapter 9 in End of Life Care for Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, ed by S. Friedman and D. Helm. Washington DC: AAIDD; 147-160; 2010
Diamond D, Ecker J, Holm I, Kornetsky S, Mitchell C, Spack N. Not Fetal Cosmetology, Bioethics Forum, 03/08/2010 http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4528
Truog R, Mitchell C. Futility—From Hospital Policies to State Laws, The American Journal of Bioethics. 6 (5), 2006, 19-21
Diamond DA, Burns JP, Mitchell C, Lamb K, Kartashov AI, Retik AB. Sex Assignment for Newborns with Ambiguous Genitalia and Exposure to Fetal Testosterone: Attitudes and Practices of Pediatric Urologists. The Journal of Pediatrics 2006;148:445-9
Burns J, Mitchell C. Is there Consensus about End-of-Life Care in Pediatrics? Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 2005: 157, 889-891
Mitchell, Christine. Excerpts from the Ethics Consult Report: MT, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 15 (3), 2004, 302-306
Mitchell C, Truog R. Seeking Blinded Consent, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 14 (1-2), 2003, 88-89
Mitchell, Christine. Help with the Hardest Decisions, Dream, Boston: Children’s Hospital, 2003
Mitchell C, Truog, R. A Bridge to Nowhere, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 14 (3):189; 2003
Mitchell C, Truog R. Irene’s Story, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 13 (3):230-231; 2002
Burns J, Mitchell C, Griffin J,Truog, R. End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care physicians and nurses. Critical Care Medicine, 2001 Mar 29 (3): 658-664
Mitchell, Christine. The Moral of the Story, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 13 (2): 153-159; 2002
Mitchell, Christine. An Epilogue to “Jamie’s Story,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 13 (2):151-153; 2002
Mitchell, Christine. When Living Is a Fate Worse Than Death, Newsweek, August 28, 2000. (p12)
Mitchell C, Truog R. From the Files of a Pediatric Ethics Committee, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 11(2):112-120; 2000
Truog R, Mitchell C, Guest Editors, Special Issue on Ethics in Pediatrics, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 11 (2); Summer 2000
Burns JP, Mitchell C, Outwater KM, Geller M, Griffith JL, Todres ID, Truog RD. End-of-Life Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit after the Forgoing of Life-Sustaining Treatment: Attitudes and Practices of Pediatric Critical Care Physicians and Nurses, Critical Care Medicine. Aug 28, 2000 (8); 3060-6.
Comment in: Critical Care Medicine, 2000 Aug 28(8): 3122-3
Rosenbaum G, Burns J, Johnson J, Mitchell C, Robinson M, Truog R. Autopsy Consent Practice at US Teaching Hospitals: Results of a National Survey, Archives of Internal Medicine, 160(3), 374-80, Feb. 14, 2000
Wharton R, Mitchell C, et al. The Child Health Advisory Plan: A Health Care Directive for Families. 1994
Coordinating Council on Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment Decision Making by the Courts, Guidelines for State Court Decision Making in Authorizing or Withholding Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment, first edition 1991, Revised second edition 1993. (St. Paul, Minnesota, West Publishing Co.)
Truog R, Berde CB, Mitchell C, Grier HE. Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill, New England Journal of Medicine. 327:1678-1682, December 3, 1992
Caron E, Mitchell C. Her Only Chance, American Journal of Nursing September 1991
Mitchell, Christine. Ethical Dilemmas, Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 2:3, 427-430, September 1990
Mitchell, Christine. On Heroes and Villains in the Linares Drama, Law, Medicine and Health Care, 17:4, January 1990
Erikson I, Mitchell C. Which Child Gets the Transplant? American Journal of Nursing 287-288, March 1988
Mitchell C, Smith L. If It's AIDS, Please Don't Tell, American Journal of Nursing, 911-14, July 1987
Mitchell, C. Rutherford, PA. Dilemmas in Practice: The Fragile Survivor, The American Journal of Nursing, 603-606, May 1987
Mitchell, Christine. Steadying the Hand that Feeds, American Journal of Nursing, 293-96, March 1987
Mitchell, C. The Nurse-Patient Relationship: A Source of Some Moral Duties, The Connecticut Scholar, 1986
Mitchell, Christine. Considering the Principle of Fidelity, Nursing Life, 26-30, September/October 1986
Mitchell, Christine. Considering the Principle of Justice, Nursing Life, 50-54, May/June 1986
Mitchell, Christine. Considering the Principle of Autonomy, Nursing Life, 26-30, March/April 1986
Mitchell, Christine. Considering the Principle of Beneficence, Nursing Life, 18-23, January/February 1986
Mitchell, Christine. Ethical Issues in Neonatal Nursing, The Practice of Perinatal/Neonatal Nursing: A Clinical Handbook. Angelini, D., Knapp, CW, Gibes, R. (eds), Boston, MA: Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc. 1986: 429-437
Report of the Special Committee on Biomedical Ethics(Chair, Hoffman P, Mitchell C. Values in Conflict: Resolving Ethical Issues in Hospital Care. Chicago, IL, American Hospital Association, 1985. (2nd edition completed 1993)
Mitchell C, Achtenberg B. Study Guide: Code Gray - Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing, Fanlight Productions, Boston, MA. 1984
Mitchell, Christine. Care of Severely Impaired Infant Raises Ethical Issues, The American Nurse Mitchell16(3) 1984
Mitchell, Christine. Legal, Medical and Ethical Problems of the Baby Jane Doe Issue: A Nurse's Reaction. Law, Science, and Technology Monograph Series. Levandoski, D. and Seitz, P. (eds), Concord, NH, Franklin Pierce Law Center, 1984
Mitchell C, Shaw SM. Infant Death Problem Must Go Beyond the Nursery, Boston Globe, p 25, March 1983
Mitchell, Christine. Integrity in Interprofessional Relationships in Responsibility in Health Care, Philosophy and Medicine Series, Agich, GJ, (Ed), Boston, MA and Dordrecht, Holland, D. Reidel Publishing, 163-184, 1982. [Reprinted in Edwards, RB and Graber, GC. Bioethics, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 63-72, 1989]
Mitchell, Christine. New Directions in Nursing Ethics, The Massachusetts Nurse, July 1981
Mitchell, Christine. The Infertile Family in Chapter 1 Prenatal Health, Part II Maternity Nursing in Blakiston Handbook of Clinical Nursing, 1st edition. Dickson, J, et al (eds.). NY, McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1979
Lacasse (Mitchell) Christine. A Dying Adolescent, American Journal of Nursing, 433-34, March 1975
