LOVELAND, OHIO - LOVELAND HIGH GRADUATE PUBLISHES ETHICS ARTICLE

LOVELAND, OHIO - The DePauw University News reports that senior biochemistry and philosophy major, Robert R. Lavieri from Loveland has co-authored an article in the November/December 2006 issue of American Journal of Bioethics titled "Ethical Considerations in the Communication of Unexpected Information with Clinical Implications,"

The article was the result of Lavieri's summerlong internship at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. That experience was made possible by a fellowship awarded by the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw, accordiing to the press release issued by the university.

"Implicit ubiquitously in beneficence is our obligation to make informed decisions and aid others in doing so as well," begins the article by Lavieri and Samual A. Garner. "Therefore, cases involving the unanticipated discovery of information with clinical implications can create an ethical dilemma. We ought to always respect an individual's autonomy by allowing an individual to choose whether or not to know the results of an unrequested genetic test, yet we simultaneously have a general obligation to tell people the truth in clinical research settings."

The complete text is available to subscribers at the journal's Web site. You can read the summary report from Lavieri's internship here.

Lavieri also contributes a review of a DePauw professor's book to the new issue (Volume 12, Number 4) of Skeptic magazine.