In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation.
This oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract …

LOOKING BACK over the last fifty years, the growth in health law and bioethics has been
nothing short of amazing. Although health law barely existed as a discipline fifty years ago …

With a background as a medical doctor and clinician for many years, my main justification
(besides curiosity) for choosing medical ethics as full-time employment was the strong belief …

Truly professional medical ethics requires a methodology that generates both moral
discernment and consistently right judgments. In this article the author briefly reviews …

1. The principle approach to medical ethics grapples with the four principles of modern
medical ethics: autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. 2. Substituted …

As everybody knows, advances in medicine and medical technology have brought
enormous benefits to, and created vexing choices for, us all–choices that can, and …

I share with Professor Rhodes the view that medical ethics should be thought of as a distinct
species of ethics. 1 I have deliberately chosen the biological metaphor of a 'species' to better …

Objectives: Summarize the common ethical principles that apply to patient care. Outline the
history of ethical principles applied to patient care. Review the meaning of the sanctity of …

principles. A second solution to this problem is to develop a scale for weighing the
significance of the conflicting principles in a given case and for concluding which action …

The “four principles plus scope” approach provides a simple, accessible, and culturally
neutral approach to thinking about ethical issues in health care. The approach, developed in …