A request that an ethics committee or consultant analyze the ethical issues in a case,
delineate ethical options, or make a recommendation need not automatically but often does …

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 6th Edition, has been designed to assist
the reader in a more comfortable transition from the didactics of the classroom to the …

This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics is devoted to the theme of health care ethics
consultation in the United States, whether such consultation is performed individually or as …

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 …

The American Journal of Bioethics increased awareness of the importance of the highest
standards of ethical behavior among members of the medical community versus a simple …

Much of the early development in the public health ethics literature focused on theoretical
development of public health ethics as a separate domain in bioethics. 7 While convergence …

Skepticism remains in many quarters about the value of bioethics for resolving moral
problems in medicine. That skepticism takes a number of forms. One line of attack focuses …

by Robert W. Cantrell, MD thics is the study of the general nature of morals and of the
specific moral choices to E be made by the individual in his relationship with others, ie, the …

Abstract ethics mostly focuses on what we do. One form of action is a speech act. What we
say can have profound effects. We can and should choose our words and how we speak …