A two-year series about ethical issues in physical medicine and rehabilitation draws to a
conclusion with this article. Several features of rehabilitation medicine render it particularly …

This article introduces a two-year series on ethical issues in physical medicine and
rehabilitation. Beginning in 1993, articles will appear in each issue of the Journal. The series …

Rehabilitation medicine, like all of medicine, is intensely judgmental, and clinical judgments
are inevitably value laden. One of the great contributions of the relatively youthful discipline …

Ethical Issues in Rehabilitation: Conceptualizing the Next G... : American Journal of Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation Ethical Issues in Rehabilitation: Conceptualizing the Next …

As the number of patients with chronic illness or disability grows, rehabilitation professionals
will face increasingly difficult questions. Traditional concepts of medical ethics can help find …

D ue to the slow growth of rehabilitation medicine and the high-profile decisions
engendered by acute care medicine, ethical dilemmas in rehabilitation settings are only …

Rehabilitation is a qualitatively and quantitatively different experience for patients and staff
than acute or long-term care. Acute care focuses on effecting a cure and returning a person …

Kirschner KL, Stocking C, Wagner LB, Foye SJ, Siegler M. Ethical issues identified by
rehabilitation clinicians. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001; 82 Suppl 2: S2-8. Objectives: To …

With the support of a grant from the Mabel Pew Myrin Trust, The Hastings Center set out in
1985 to rectify that situation. Various friends and colleagues in rehabilitation medicine had …

And now Alice (the rehabilitationist) found her-self in a dark forest with no idea where to go
to find the white rabbit. For our purpose the white rabbit will represent the answer to an …