title: The inner workings of an ethics committee: latest battle over Jehovah's Witnesses.
abstract: Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds have long created ethical dilemmas for those in the medical profession trying to serve them. A bioethicist working in a clinical setting explores how one hospital ethics committee grappled with the additional problem of pregnant Jehovah's Witnesses, including the complex interdependence of maternal and fetal rights.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Macklin
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002835:Christianity; D004989:Ethics; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D005260:Female; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D033221:Jehovah's Witnesses; D033222:Judicial Role; D033242:Minors; D009519:New York City; D010349:Patient Compliance; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011247:Pregnancy; D037841:Pregnant People; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012068:Religion and Medicine