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Ethical Issues: Engaging Patients
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-11)
The Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association initiated the Ethical Force Program in 1997. The purpose of E Force is to develop performance measures for ethical behavior and practices that can be useful throughout the health care...
Ethical Issues: Ethical Research
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-12)
In academic medicine we are ruled by many masters—the need to see patients, the expectations of teaching, the desire (and expectation) to advance our careers through scholarship and research, and the ever present specter ...
The Ethical Use of New Drugs
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-10)
The practice of medicine requires clinical judgments within the context of an inexact and very complicated science, the end result of which has profound implication for the welfare of patients. The ethical question for the practitioner is whether...
Ethical Issues: The Pope and Terri's Tube
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-07)
On March 20, 2004, in a papal allocution delivered at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II made statements regarding the feeding of patients diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. These statements have rekindled the longstanding ethical...
Ethical Issues: Communication
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-05)
the comprehension and application of often-vast amounts of information. The first step in fostering patient centered communication is to encourage providers to understand their own health-related values and beliefs, recognizing that everyone may not share in those...
Ethical Issues: “The Patient Just Wants to Go Home”
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-08)
desire to respect the patient's wishes while at the same time recognizing their obligation to do what is in the best interest of the patient medically. Fear of possible professional or legal retribution may also loom large if the family...
Ethical Issues: The Difficult Family
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-01)
Some of the most difficult situations faced by physicians have been when loving and caring families, often out of guilt or misunderstanding, disagree or become demanding. This challenge intensifies when those demands do ...
Ethical Issues: Spirituality and Health Care
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-02)
Faith and spirituality, and their place in professional relationships, are getting a great deal of press these days. From an airline pilot proselytizing to his captive passengers at the beginning of a four hour coast to ...
Ethical Issues: Disparities in End of Life Care
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-09)
Market strategies tend to work as a negative force when it comes to ensuring adequate health care for the underserved in our society. When it comes to health care, and in particular end of life care, color still divides.
Ethical Issues: Caring for the Caregiver
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-03)
One of the important details we tend to overlook when taking care of patients with debilitating or life-threatening disease is the welfare of those family members taking care of the patient at home. The burden of providing ...
Ethical Issues: Malpractice Crisis
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-04)
Medicine is in crisis. Doctors, especially those in high-risk specialties like obstetrics and neurosurgery, are leaving their practices in response to ballooning malpractice costs. Malpractice rates for physicians are ...
Ethical Issues: Tribute to Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-10)
Edmund Pellegrino's influence has spanned over 60 years of service. His insight and ability to articulate the importance of beneficence and trust through the healing relationship have continued to provide a grounding force ...
Ethical Issues: Communication and Prevention
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-05)
Health illiteracy is a serious and growing problem in this country. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) nearly half of all American adults (that's 90 million people) have difficulty understanding and using health ...
Ethical Issues: Assisted Suicide Upheld
(Center for Health Ethics, 2006-01)
The ethical controversy invited by legally allowing physician assisted suicide is a familiar and complex one in which personal rights, states' rights, professional obligation, and the federal government's sense of global obligation to protect human...
Ethical Issues: Saying I'm Sorry
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-06)
disclosure will prevent a lawsuit. In general, though patients may trust their physicians more if they are truthful, they expect restitution of some kind if they are harmed....
The Ethical Challenges Farming: A Report on Conversations with Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers
(2004-09)
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers consider are important ethical challenges in agriculture. In contrast to the literature, which characterizes ethical challenges in term of philosophical debates about soil...
Answers to Five Questions on Normative Ethics
(Automatic Press, 2007)
This article comprises the author's answers to five questions on Normative Ethics posed by the editors of the collection....
Transforming the ethical behavior of clinicians through pedagogical innovation: sensemaking as a means to promote ethical practice in the face of moral ambiguity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
for Community Health Outcomes) leads to improved sensemaking by clinicians. This study examined the effect of type of ethics training on ethical response self-efficacy scores. Using a series of univariate analyses of variance, the study found that participants...
Perceived Economic Pressures and Farmer Ethics
(2008)
We consider the effect of perceived economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We hypothesize that an increase in the economic pressures a farmer faces could result in that farmer being more tolerant of unethical conduct than farmers...
The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior
(2004-06)
options a farmer has available to him. Second, because of the industrialization of agriculture and the resulting economic pressures it creates for farmers, the fact that decisions are constrained creates new ethical challenges for farmers. Having fewer...