Medical Ethics
MEDICAL ETHICS. Religious beliefs are central to the process of deliberation in medical ethics. An awareness of the rich diversity of perspectives both within and among different religi...
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Ethical Issues of Modern Genetics
Modern genetics poses some of the most significant ethical problems that science has ever faced. As a result of recent advances, scientists are now able to engineer l...
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Medical Ethics
From the beginning of the history of medicine, healers have had to deal with questions of ethics. However, the separate discipline of medical ethics has existed for less than 50 years, ...
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Medical Ethics
Medical ethics is the most prominent branch of the broader field of bioethics. In general, medical ethics concerns itself with issues arising in the relationship between a health care p...
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Medical Ethics
A basis for medical ethics can be found in the Hippocratic oath. These ethics, in sum, emphasize that doctors should keep confidences, soothe their patients' suffering, and not o...
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A BABY GIRL is born in Boston, nearly dead as she enters the world. While still in her mother's womb, she has suffered severe asphyxia, or lack of oxygen. As a result, the baby—called Baby L. in...
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Physicians have always been confronted with life-and-death choices—having to make difficult decisions is part of the responsibility of being a doctor. But the predicaments that doctors find them...
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Ethics are a set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong and provide a standard of conduct or code of behavior. Three rules of ethics that apply in most health care occupations a...
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Medical Experimentation on Humans
Medicine is defined as an agent, such as a drug, used to treat disease or injury. However in order to have medicines, they need to be developed. Medicines begin in ...
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Confidentiality
Toby Kiwi is a college graduate and a newlywed. He is sitting nervously in the waiting room of Doctor Rawb's clinic after taking a HIV test. Mr. Kiwi thinks he really has no reason ...
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