Ethics and clinical medicine

Clinical Ethics: the Art of Medicine

1944 The third of seven images from the series The Seven Ages of a Physician. This image depicts the education of a group of medical students at the bedside of a patient. Clinical ethics helps to focus the medical treatment on the patient as a person who functions within a complex network of social relationships and personal needs, rather than as just an " entity " with a biomechanical dysfunct...

[Clinical research ethics in respiratory medicine].

Clinical research plays an increasingly strong role in the development of respiratory medicine. Familiarity with issues that affect research on human subjects is therefore essential, particularly so with regard to the conduct of clinical trials of medical with medications. This paper begins with a brief introduction to the ethics of clinical research. We highlight the importance of directives o...

Ethics and laboratory medicine.

Ethical issues have been given limited attention by professionals in laboratory medicine. Professional ethics is the moral bond that links a profession, the people it serves, and society. Understanding the complexities of individual and common good is essential for full professional participation in major issues in health care. Specific issues that challenge laboratory professionals in clinical...

Ethics and e-medicine.

Ethics and reproductive medicine.

This article surveys relevant moral and ethical implications of reproductive medicine, excluding any aspects of contraception. To maintain the methodological priority of a moral perspective, it focuses on moral theory and ethics in general before looking at the impact of ethics on the different techniques applied in reproductive medicine. We suggest that discourse ethics should be centre-stage ...