Clinical medical ethics provides a special perspective on medical practice and health care.
The goal of clinical ethics is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analyzing …

During the 1970s and 1980s, the new disciplines of biomedical ethics and clinical ethics
emphasized the development of medical school teaching programs, the creation of ethics …

In 1972, I created the new field of clinical medical ethics (CME) in the Department of
Medicine at the University of Chicago. In my view, CME is an intrinsic part of medicine and is …

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has developed and evaluated an
extensive teaching program in clinical ethics coordinated primarily through the Center for …

In the first of two recent articles in this journal we offered a definition of clinical medical
ethics, 1 and in the second we outlined its research content and methodology. 2 In this …

This article is the last in a series of articles describing the field of clinical ethics. 1 In this
essay we anticipate some likely directions for clinical ethics. We have chosen to make …

Medical practice is an inherently ethical enterprise. More than ever before, medical practice
requires that medical professionals develop and exercise high ethical standards. Health …

Should a brain-dead woman be artificially maintained for the sake of her fetus? Does a
physician have the right to administer a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's religious …

The clinical ethics framework that is typically taught to medical students and residents is
deeply flawed, and the result of using this framework exclusively to resolve ethical conflicts …

​ The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics
that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant …