Objectives: Outbreaks of disease, especially those that are declared a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern, present substantial ethical challenges. Here we start a …

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a
revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as" honor" and" virtue." …

Drawing on research on business associations and physicians' associations, we argue here
for a cultural theory of professions.'Professions'—or professionalism—should be understood …

How can the history of research ethics be expanded beyond the standard narrative of
codification—a story that does not reach back beyond World War II—without becoming so …

The practice of modern medical ethics is largely acute, episodic, fragmented, problem-
focused, and institution-centered. Family medicine, in contrast, is built upon a relationship …

Background Widespread epidemics, pandemics, and other risk-prone disasters occur with
disturbing regularity. When such events occur, how should, and will, clinicians respond? The …

Aim To examine the views of Guinean lay people and healthcare providers (HCPs)
regarding the acceptability of HCPs' refusal to provide care to Ebola patients. Method From …

Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically
appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical …

The inability to reach agreement on what clinical ethics consultants' expertise consists of has
generated a theoretical crisis for this field of practice. After briefly examining some recent …

Our medicine displays what appears to be a strange paradox. On the one hand, it has an
ostensibly patient-centred ethic. On the other hand, it abuses the patient even and mostly …