Historical Aspects of Medical Ethics, Bioethics and Medical Deontology

Professional deontology and medical practice in prisons.

OBJECTIVE To study the knowledge on professional deontology amongst doctors in prisons. MATERIALS AND METHOD Descriptive, transversal and multi-centre study. Labour, collegiate, social, demographic and deontological variables were collected. A descriptive analysis of the variables was performed. A bivariate analysis was made by binary logistic regression models, attending to the odds ratio, a...

Bioethics down under--medical ethics engages with political philosophy.

T he beginning of November last year was a busy time in the bioethics calendar with four conferences taking place in New Zealand and Australia. The Fifth International Conference on Priorities in Health Care took place in Wellington; the Fifth Feminist Approaches to Bioethics congress, the Seventh World Congress of Bioethics, and the meeting of the Australasian Bioethics Association were all in...

Bioethics in practice - a quarterly column about medical ethics: ethics of chart review research.

Patients presume their medical records are private. They think their records are not seen by anyone other than their physicians and that this privacy is guaranteed under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as the HIPAA law. Patients are surprised that many other people have access to their medical records and their private health information (PHI). In additio...

Abortion / Abortion Pill Ru-486 / Assisted Reproduction and Ivf / Bioethics / Cloning / Embryonic Stem Cells / Emergency Contraception / Ethics of Scientific Research / Genetics and Genomics / Medical Deontology / Special Reports

In order to determine the nature of the human embryo, we need to know its biological, anthropological, philosophical, and even its legal reality. In our opinion, however, the anthropological, philosophical and legal reality of the embryo — the basis of its human rights — must be built upon its biological reality (see also HERE). Consequently, one of the most widely debated topics in the field o...

About boxing: review of historical and medical aspects.