Subsequently, it became evident that despite numerous reforms,
medical ethics education was inadequately served by formalised coursework curricula, [15] which did not produce the caring and compassionate physician envisaged.
For example, consider four American authors addressing issues in
medical ethics: a Protestant scholar who creatively reads the Bible (Allen Verhey); a feminist Catholic theologian who expands natural law reasoning by promoting participation, justice, and change (Lisa Sowle Cahill); another Catholic theologian who integrates the contributions of virtue ethics (James F.
The content, duration, mode of training in
medical ethics requires a standardized module for evaluating their knowledge and attitudes.
Thus, various concrete rules are being created and initiatives undertaken in regards to
medical ethics.
KEY WORDS: Medical ethicists, Health professionals,
Medical ethics.
One distinctive aspect of the book appears in Chapter 3, '
Medical Ethics of India and China'.
Nevertheless, even after creating a fair and objective system for treating swine-flu patients, health-care providers and
medical ethics committees will still have to address other challenges.
Into these conflicting currents of thought pertaining to military
medical ethics, Gross takes readers on a complicated theoretical journey, evaluating philosophical arguments based on deontology or utilitarianism as well as imperatives grounded in treaties and constitutional law.
I am concerned when there are discussions of psychiatric ethics without reference to the Principles of
Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association.
College-level courses in veterinary medicine will find AN INTRODUCTION TO VETERINARY
MEDICAL ETHICS: THEORY AND CASES, 2ND EDITION an excellent point of discussion for surveying the vet's ethical and medical issues in animal welfare issues.
Dr Sokol is a researcher in
medical ethics at Imperial College, London.
My friend and fellow ethicist, Richard Thompson, MD, wrote an excellent and readily understandable introduction to principal-based ethics and moral intelligence, the latter being a reclaiming of the traditional "virtue ethics" ("Look What's Happened to
Medical Ethics," The Physician Executive, 32(2), March/April 2006).