This chapter introduces the field of values and ethics in health and social care, traditions or
schools of thought in ethics, the distinction between ethical issues and ethical dilemmas …

Healthcare professionals face moral uncertainty in their work as they confront human
vulnerability in a variety of situations between life and death. This multiprofessional analysis …

Increasingly, medical students are required to face up to ethical issues in their training and
practice. At the same time, there is growing interest in philosophy courses in the ethical …

Purpose The authors' primary goal was to provide a comprehensive and current review of
the literature surrounding ethics education for medical students. Following this review, the …

Ethics for Health Professionals provides a foundational understanding of ethics for
healthcare students and clinicians. With a conversational tone and features within each …

This book submits for discussion the first results of an undertaking that is still going on. It
aims to stimulate a broad reflection on the general question of the meaning of ethics and …

Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician provides students with the theoretical
background and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical …

This chapter provides a general discussion of medical ethics and professionalism. The
authors examine the development and history of Western ethical thinking in medicine as a …

What is the proper content of a course in professional ethics, such as business ethics,
engineering ethics, or medical ethics? Though courses in professional ethics have been …

As some formal bioethics instruction has become the norm in American medical schools, a
trend has emerged toward increased attention to context in both bioethics education and …