Respecting human individuals enrolled in a trial while trying to improve the knowledge for
the entire human race is not always easy but a necessary tasks. Ethics has become …

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 …

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 …

Specialists in rehabilitation have shown growing interest in ethical issues. This paper is my
contribution to the debate. Problems related to the evaluations and outcomes of …

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 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 …

Pain management in contemporary American health care is a persistent and perennial
problem. What distinguishes the contemporary problem from the one of 25–30 years ago is …

Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine. By Regina Markell
Morantz-Sanchez. New York. Oxford University Press, 1985. x+ 464 pp. $24.95. nineteenth …