An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical
principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and …

The paper describes a two week course that has been offered as a special study module to
intermediate level (second and third year) undergraduate medical students at Dundee …

The clinical ethics framework that is typically taught to medical students and residents is
deeply flawed, and the result of using this framework exclusively to resolve ethical conflicts …

Shared decision making, along with an explosion in costs and the alternatives associated
with the technological revolution in medicine, has moved medical ethics from the status of a …

Background In the UK, higher education and health care providers share responsibility for
educating the workforce. The challenges facing health practice also face health education …

Background: Physicians face ethical difficulties daily, yet they seek ethics consultation
infrequently. To date, no systematic data have been collected on the strategies they use to …

General practice provides the first point of contact to medical care for patients across the
world. GPs have obligations to patients in their care, to the government for responsible use …

A purely deductive medical ethics cannot properly account for the varieties of circumstances
which arise in medical practice. By contrast, a purely inductive medical ethics lacks sufficient …

The purpose of this book is to assist health care professionals in understanding some of the
complex contemporary issues that they confront and to provide guidance in making …