Dear Editor, Medical ethics is an interdisciplinary concept, which deals with ethical issues in medical sciences. Medical ethics can be defined as " Respecting principles and values in medical decisions concerning public health ". 1 Dramatic changes have been made in medical ethics after development in medicine, technology, and ethical issues. Currently, the evaluation of science production is ...

In this paper we consider the use of cases in medical ethics research and teaching. To date, there has been little discussion about the consent or confidentiality requirements that ought to govern the use of cases in these areas. This is in marked contrast to the requirements for consent to publish cases in clinical journals, or to use personal information in research. There are a number of rea...

A dean of a major nursing school recently said. ., "We're not interested in medical ethics; there is virtually nothing there that is pertinent to nursing. Nursing has its own issues, problems, and principles, and they're quite different from, and often opposed to, those of medicine." She might well have gone on to point out that nursing also has its established codes of ethics and doesn't need ...

We critically evaluate the ways in which competence in medical ethics has been evaluated. We report the initial stage in the development of a relevant, reliable and valid instrument to evaluate core critical thinking skills in medical ethics. This instrument can be used to evaluate the impact of medical ethics education programmes and to assess whether medical students have achieved a satisfact...

objective: to review the current situation regarding prenatal diagnosis (pnd) in islamic countries. methods: a descriptive study (narrative review) has been done based on the available data in formal international and national published documents in 2013. the sources were papers, websites and electronic books. time limitation of searches has started 20 years ago. the main languages were english...

The paper gives an analytical synopsis of the problem of developing medical ethics in the early half of the 1990s in China, as perceived by Chinese scholars and medical professionals interested in medical ethics. The views captured and analyzed here were expressed in one of the two major journals on medical ethics in China: Chinese Medical Ethics. The economic reform unleashed profound changes ...

o the best of our knowledge, medical ethics is not taught as a separate subject in Indian medical colleges. St John's Medical College has a programme.for teaching medical ethics to its undergraduate students. We describe here the structure of our programme, the syllabus and the teaching methodology. ite feel that we have an effective way of teaching medical ethics at vur medical college and wou...

This paper engages with the question of what it is to 'do good medical ethics' in two ways. It begins with an exploration of what it might mean to say that health professionals practise good medical ethics as part of practising good ethical medicine. Using the example of the Genethics Club, a well-established national ethics forum for genetics professionals in the UK, the paper develops an acco...

In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy. Although these are distinct activities, they are alike in several critical respects. Good medical ethi...