Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care
system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge …

The rise of quality improvement research and comparative effectiveness research in health
care settings constitutes progress toward the goal of what the Institute of Medicine has called …

Medical ethics assumes a clear boundary between clinical research and clinical medicine:
one produces knowledge for the benefit of future patients, while the other provides optimal …

The authors raise questions regarding the wide-spread calls emanating from lay and
medical audiences alike to intensify the formal teaching of ethics within the medical school …

Foundation for their emotional, intellectual, and financial support of this endeavor. Without
their help, the project could not have come to fruition. Aspecial thank-you also goes to Joel …

A traditional approach to teaching medical ethics aims to provide knowledge about ethics.
This is in line with an epistemological view on ethics in which moral expertise is assumed to …

In the wake of the successful cloning of animals and the promises-or fears-of stem cell
research, new discoveries in science and medicine need more than ever to be accompanied …

Medical ethics education is instruction that endeavors to teach the examination of the role of
values in the doctor's relationship with patients, colleagues, and society. It is one front of a …

Abstract Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 3E is designed to guide health
care students and practitioners through a wide variety of areas involving ethical …

Despite its impressive achievements, modern medicine still seems to have failed to satisfy
public expectations. Government regulation of hospitals and doctors is tightening in most …