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John C. Fletcher (1931–2004)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Type
In Memoriam
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

References

Fletcher, J.C., “Moral Problems and Ethical Issues in Prospective Gene Therapy,” Virginia Law Review 69 (1983): 515546.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fletcher’s final book, which he completed after the death of his long time colleague Dorothy Wertz, continued this line of inquiry on a global scale, see Wertz, D. and Fletcher, J.C., Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective (New York: Kluwer, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
See e.g., Fletcher, J. C. and Wertz, D., “Ethics, Law and Medical Genetics: After the Human Genome is Mapped,” Emory Law Journal 39 (1990): 747810; Fletcher, J. C., “The Bioethics Movement and Hospital Ethics Committees,” Maryland Law Review 50 (1991): 859–891; Fletcher, J. C., Book Review Essay: “Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice and Research”, Spece, R. G. Jr., Shimm, D. S., and Buchanan, A. E., eds, 18 Journal of Legal Medicine 387 (1997).Google Scholar
Fletcher, J.C., “Moral Problems and Ethical Issues in Prospective Gene Therapy,” Virginia Law Review 69 (1983): 515546, at 515, note 5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fletcher, J. C., Book Review, “Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics, by George Annas,” Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 10 (1994): 589603.Google Scholar
Fletcher, J.C., “Bioethics in a Legal Forum: Confessions of an Expert Witness,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (1997): 297324, at 316.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Doing bad in the name of good? The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and its legacy [videorecording], Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia (1994).Google Scholar
“The Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study” <http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/apology/index.html> (last visited June 24, 2004).+(last+visited+June+24,+2004).>Google Scholar
See Fletcher, J. C., “A Case Study in Historical Relativism” in Tuskegee’s Truths, Reverby, S., ed., (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) 276298.Google Scholar