Medical ethics is an indispensible and challenging aspect of clinical practice. This is particularly prominent in the field of organ transplantation. In this paper, initially, a clinical case with brain death that ended up as an organ donor will be presented. Following the presentation, important moral challenges which initially formed medical ethics and some highlights of it in organ transplan...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this paper is to discuss principles relevant to ethical deliberation in public health. METHODS Conceptual analysis and literature review. RESULTS Four principles are identified: The Harm Principle, The Principle of Least Restrictive Means, The Reciprocity Principle, and The Transparency Principle. Two examples of how the principles are applied in practice are pro...

("Ethics, Clinical"[Mesh] OR "Bioethical Issues"[Mesh] OR "Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Culture"[Mesh] OR ethics[tiab] OR "value system"[All Fields] OR "Cultural Characteristics"[Mesh] OR "Cultural Diversity"[Mesh] OR "Cross-Cultural Comparison"[Mesh]) AND ("Bioterrorism"[Mesh] OR "Terrorism"[Mesh] OR "Disasters"[Mesh] OR disaster[tiab] OR bioterrorism[tiab] OR hurricane[tiab] OR tornado[tiab] OR flood[ti...

The ethics of contemporary research practice, especially with respect to the design and conduct of clinical trials, has been subjected to considerable scrutiny in recent years. Issues related to informed consent, the use of placebo controls and the tension between the requirement for scientific evidence on the one hand and for patient autonomy on the other have all generated heated debate. In t...

The ethics of clinical research requires equipoise--a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial. Should the investigator discover that one treatment is of superior therapeutic merit, he or she is ethically obliged to offer that treatment. The current understanding of this requirement, which entails t...

This review article describes and analyzes ethical issues in medical practice, particularly those issues encountered by physicians in their relationships with their patients. These relationships often involve ethical conflicts between 2 or more interests, which physicians need to recognize and resolve. The article deals with 4 topics in clinical practice in which ethical conflicts occur: physic...

This article, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Medical Ethics, approaches the question 'what does it mean to do good medical ethics?' first from a general perspective and then from the personal perspective of a Jewish Orthodox physician and ethicist who tries, both at a personal clinical level and in national and sometimes international discussions and debates, to reconcile h...

Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate, especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and describe a team-based approach used at Stanford University in the context of these models. As research ethics consultation services expand, there are many unresolved questions that need to be addressed, includin...

In Turkey, there was no legal regulation of research on human beings until 1993. In that year "the amendment relating to drug researches" was issued. The main objectives of the regulation are to establish a central ethics committee and local ethics committees, and to provide administrative control. There are no compulsory clinical ethics lectures in the medical curriculum, so it is also propose...