Medicine

Authors: Callahan, Joan C.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This anthology includes a large number of readings covering topics such as the moral foundations of professional ethics, models of the professional-client relationship, deception, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, profe...
Year: 1988

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Authors: Brandt, AM
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Considers the racist ideas of physicians and the US health service that supported the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study....
Year: 1978
URL: http://sociology101.net/readings/Racism-And-Research.pdf

Authors: Turner, J. ; Boon, K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medical Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses literature about the health needs and problems experienced by medical practitioners as a background to a review of the current efforts in medical education to promote ethical conduct and develop mechanisms for...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2002.002618

Authors: Grodin, Michael A. ; Annas, George J.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Discusses the development of the Nuremberg Code, its history and its lasting effect on human rights legislation and the field of bioethics. ...
Year: 1992

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Authors: Tuskegee Institute ; Gray, Fred D.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Written by the attorney for the African American Men who were patients in the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials, this book describes the background of the study, the investigation and the lawsuit, the events leading up to the Presidential ap...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Dresser, R
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medical Philosophy
Abstract: Much of the public debate over laboratory animal use has focused on either the scientist's demand for absolute freedom of inquiry, or the abolitionist's demand for an end to animal use in science. Yet many recent proposals for refor...
Year: 1988
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/13.2.123

Authors: Tołłoczko, Tadeusz S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the complex nature of medicine, which is both a scientific discipline and also a clinical activity where patients are both the object and also the subject of medical research. The article discusses the importan...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-006-0009-8

Authors: Orlans, F. Barbara
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book begins with a brief introduction with a chapter explaining the main types of ethical theory as distinguished by philosophers and how they have been applied to the issue of the moral status of animals. The following sixteen...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Beauchamp, Tom L. ; Childress, James F.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: A foundational text of biomedical ethics, this book provides a highly insightful and practical guide to morality in the health professions. The authors discuss the four principles that like at the core of moral reasoning in the hea...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Shanks, Thomas, S. J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: What are the ethical questions involved when a company is the only supplier of a high-risk, life-saving product?...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier.html

Authors: Bok, Sissela
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book examines the distinction that can be drawn between secrecy and privacy, why both are needed in many situations, and when secrets are desirable, such as the need to preserve surprise, and situations where secrets can be har...
Year: 1984

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Authors: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Abstract: A small group of editors of general medical journals met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The International Committee of Medical Jo...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.icmje.org/

Authors: Peterson-Iyer, Karen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A case study of an elderly Puerto Rican immigrant to the United States suffering from the effects of diabetes. Includes expert commentaries....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-competent-care/chronic-to-critical.html

Authors: Peterson-Iyer, Karen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A case study raising issues of culturally competent health care for a Muslim woman. When doctors at a local hospital discover brain abnormalities in the unborn child of a young woman from Afghanistan recently admitted to the hospita...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-competent-care/fetal-abnormality.html

Authors: Peterson-Iyer, Karen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A woman working as an immigrant farm laborer in the United States is admitted to the hospital to give birth, and needs an emergency operation. Her primary language is Mixteco, and she speaks only a smattering of English and Spanish...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-competent-care/difficult-birth.html

Authors: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: A collection of essays including the following: U.S. medical researchers, the Nuremberg doctors trial, and the Nuremberg Code: a review of findings of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments -- The Jewish Chronic Dise...
Year: 2003

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Authors: Gillon, Raanan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medical Ethics
Abstract: Editorial. Comments on the use of case studies in medical ethics teaching. Supplementing of theoretical analysis; Problems that count as moral problems; Development of appropriate attitudes and behavior in response to outcome of mor...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1136/jme.22.1.3

Authors: Menkin, Elizabeth
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A physician has questions for a public guardian in charge of the medical care for a conserved patient....
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/conserved-patient/case1.html

Authors: Menkin, Elizabeth
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A public guardian must make decisions for a 78 year-old woman with severe dementia, and multiple illnesses....
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/conserved-patient/case2.html

Authors: Lee, Melinda
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A doctor must decide if a patient's decision to stop dialysis is motivated by depression....
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/patient.html

Authors: Armitage, Bob ; Reid, J. Leighton ; Randall, Vernellia ; Meyer, Michael ; Bachman, Sarah ; Hanson, Kirk O.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As an epidemic spreads through a fictitious country in the developing world, various stakeholders debate the responsibility of a drug company with the patent on a life-saving treatment. This video presentation, from the Ethics Cente...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/pharmaceuticals-and-epidemics.html

Authors: Cirone, Chris
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A selection of medical ethics cases designed to bring up ethical issues in the field if medicine and help students determine whether medicine is the correct calling for them....
Year: 2001
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/cirone/medical-ethics.html

Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This fictionalized case addresses the ethical issues confronting governments, NGOs, and pharmaceutical companies when faced with an epidemic. Includes a video presentation of the case. ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/outbreak.html

Authors: Shanks, Thomas, S. J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: More than 65 million Americans are currently enrolled in managed care plans, which have been promoted as effective ways to deliver quality health care while containing costs. But these plans raise increasingly complicated ethical is...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/cancer.html

Authors: Tran, Anh
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Does a patient have the right to access to non-Western forms of medical treatment? Anh Tran, S.J., Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Associate Director of Health Care Ethics, discusses the issues in this case of a doctor’s refusal ...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/acupuncture.html