I encourage you to see patients as your tutors and to ground your relationships with them in
advocacy, mutual vulnerability and trust.. for this is the heart of medicine. dFaculty covenant …

Using ethnographic material collected between 2003 and 2007 in five HIV clinics in the US,
South Africa, Uganda, and Thailand, this article examines “official ethics” and “ethics on the …

Background: Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a new prenatal screening technology
that became commercially available in the United States in 2011. NIPT's increased accuracy …

Genetic diseases often raise issues of profound importance for human self‐understanding,
such as one's identity, the family or community to which one belongs, and one's future or …

This essay argues that the field of bioethics should concern itself especially with the process
of making moral sense that unfolds among clinicians, patients and family members during …

I write this as a medical educator who has been immersed for the past 8 years in developing
and implementing educational activities designed to improve the care of children with life …

Medicinsk-etiska frågor återkommer ofta i den offentliga debatten eftersom de är avgörande
för både vårdens praktiska inriktning och även hur vi ser, mer teoretiskt, på människolivets …

Résumé La bioéthique anglo-saxonne, principalement nord-américaine, qui atteint
maintenant ses quarante ans, fait, depuis quelques années, l'objet de vifs débats …

Narrow and oversimplified views of children animate the contemporary adult-centric
healthcare landscape. The dominant principlist approach in medical ethics reinforces those …

Communication is a risky adventure without guarantees. Any kind of effort to make linkage
via signs is a gamble. To the question, How can we really know we have communicated …