In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely
unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it …

The wordprofessionis derived from the Latin word that means “to declare openly.” On June
13, 2016, the first comprehensive update of the AMA Code of Medical Ethicsin more than 50 …

Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long
proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test …

The attitudes of physicians and drug manufacturers in the US toward patenting
pharmaceuticals changed dramatically from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth …

Das Recht des Patienten auf Selbstbestimmung ist in den Mittelpunkt des Arzt-Patienten-
Verhältnisses gerückt. Ein medizinischer Eingriff darf nur vorgenommen werden, wenn der …

Ethics is not the same thing as morality. For one thing, morality is more of a matter of
accepted social conventions or religious traditions, without the requirement of any rational …