In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what
makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical …

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

Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically
appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical …

This book presents the core elements of a therapeutic relationship from the patient's
perspective. It is based on extensive discussions with 58 patients with a wide range of …

Like many recent books about medical ethics, Rethinking Health Care Ethics offers a history
of the field's evolution. But unlike philosophers' accounts, which tend to paint a bright picture …

Background Since the late 1960s, the ethics of patient care in the United States has
developed primarily along two, relatively distinct pathways [6]. 1 One pathway developed …

What is bioethics, that it could so rapidly establish its academic and social status in the
United States and then almost as quickly be accepted across the world? The emergence of …

For decades a debate has played out in the literature about who bioethicists are, what they
do, whether they can be considered professionals qua bioethicists, and, if so, what …

While Bioethics is now taught at all medical colleges in the United States as well as in other
nations, and while discussions about Bioethics have become frequent in most medical …

Ethical challenges are prevalent in modern-day medicine. Whether arising in the daily
practice of medicine, in the conduct of research, or in our educational practices, physicians …