1. On why medical ethics is exciting

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Michael Dunn ◽  
Tony Hope
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Healthcare Resources ◽  
Moral Questions

‘On why medical ethics is exciting’ provides an introduction to medical ethics, which deals with some of the big moral questions: easing death and the morality of killing, for example. It takes us into the realm of politics. How should healthcare resources, necessarily limited, be distributed; and what should be the process for deciding? It is concerned with legal issues. Should it always be a crime for a doctor to practise euthanasia? When can a mentally ill person be treated against his will? Medical ethics ranges from the metaphysical to the mundanely practical. It is concerned not only with these large issues, but also with everyday medical practice.

Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Omparkash Singh Kande
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Medical Documentation ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Safe Practice ◽  
Medicolegal Issues

Legal Issues in Medical Practice Medicolegal Guidelines for Safe Practice has presented essential information on various medicolegal aspects involved in day-to-day clinical practice. Most of the pertinent issues like medical ethics, informed consent, medical documentation, medical negligence, and various laws applicable to the medical professionals have been elaborated in the book. A separate section on medicolegal issues related to various specialties has presented ‘practice management strategies’ for safe clinical practice. Chapters on various medicolegal issues are written by the specialists who are well experienced in clinical as well as medicolegal domain. The book comprises of 24 chapters divided into five sections: <bold>Sec I</bold> (Medical Ethics and Law); <bold>Sec II</bold> (Documentation of Patient Care: The Legal Aspects); <bold>Sec III</bold> (Litigation against Medical Practitioners); <bold>Sec IV</bold> (Medical Laws and Judgments Governing the Medical Professionals); <bold>Sec V</bold> (Medicolegal Issues in Various Specialties). Dr. VP Singh, an authority in medical laws has edited the chapters, and presented a reliable medicolegal book with a problem solving approach. The guiding principles recommended in the book are well supported by relevant judgments from Indian Courts. This book is a step-by-step guide that provides basic understanding of medicolegal principles in a simple language, and enables a busy medical practitioner to establish safe clinical practice. In nutshell, this book is a must read for every healthcare professional.

Letter to the British Medical Journal , Prefrontal Leucotomy

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-120
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Problems ◽  
Electroshock Therapy

A letter from Winnicott to the British Medical Journal stating his views that leucotomy is the “worst honest error” to emerge in recent medical practice. He believes that the increased use of surgery, instead of psychotherapy, has led mentally ill patients to fear being subjected to the procedure and that doctors are using it, and electroshock therapy, as quick fixes to complex mental problems.

Why a New Approach to Medical Ethics Is Needed

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-43
Author(s):  
Rosamond Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Common Morality ◽  
Medical Professionalism ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Everyday Ethics ◽  
The Common

The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism rejects the well-entrenched views of medical ethics as everyday ethics or common morality applied to medicine. This chapter lays the foundation for the original account of medical ethics that follows in the book’s succeeding chapters. By presenting vivid examples and general arguments the author demonstrates ways in which the ethics of medicine is distinct and different from common morality. The chapter discusses the most popular common morality views, namely, the four principles approach expounded by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics and the ten rules approach presented by Bernard Gert, Charles Culver, and K. Danner Clouser in Bioethics: A Systematic Approach by presenting arguments that challenge their applicability to medical practice. A chart identifies some stark differences between the common morality approach and good medical practice and shows how everyday ethics is incompatible with medical professionalism.

scholarly journals Etiese perspektiewe vir die bantering van konflik in die mediese wetenskap

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. O.K. Lategan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Ethical Conflict ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

Ethical perspectives in dealing with conflict in the medical sciences Medical practice is daily confronted with the problem how to deal with ethical conflict. This matter becomes even more difficult when one deals with boarder-situations such as abortion and euthanasia. Here a choice is required between life and death. But it is important to bear in mind that approaching ethical situations requires knowledge of powers such as ideology, technique, etc and paradigms such as Christian anthropology which influence our decisions. Therefore, it seems that ethical models such as situation ethics and casuistry are insufficient to deal with the problem of conflict. In this paper a ethical model is presented to deal with conflict in medical ethics. This model - contextual normative ethics - tries to compromise an ethical dilemma.

scholarly journals History and development of medical ethics- the international norms

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jay N. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Publication Ethics ◽  
Broad Field

 Medical ethics encompasses a broad field, including ethics in day to day medical practice, in research and publication. The historical development in the context of international norms of medical ethics is presented here, with brief mention of ‘research and publication ethics’, the latter two being a broad topic in itself.

A Review of Treatment Failures Presented in Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Tochkov ◽  
Nichole Williams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Involuntary Commitment ◽  
Involuntary Hospitalization ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Involuntary Care

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care explores the complex battle over involuntary hospitalization for mental illness. This article aims to explore the flaws of involuntary commitment as the authors presented in their book and seeks to foster a discussion that will improve the lives of the mentally ill. This discussion includes the negative experiences of patients, some of the legal issues surrounding involuntary care, and some issues with the process of commitment that were presented in the book.

Legal Issues and Guidelines for Nurses Who Care for the Mentally Ill

1985 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Linda D. Moskowitz ◽  
Joyce Kemp Laben ◽  
Colleen Powell McLean
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Legal Issues

Phantom Tumors and Hysterical Women: Revising our View of the Schloendorff Case

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Lombardo
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Patient Autonomy ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sound Mind

Over the past thirty years, the doctrine of informed consent has become a focal point in discussions of medical ethics. The literature of informed consent explores the evolution of the principle of autonomy, purportedly emerging from the mists of 19th Century medical practice, and finding its earliest articulation in legal cases where wronged citizens asserted their rights against medical authority. A commonplace, if not obligatory, feature of that literature is a reference to the case of Mary Schloendorff and the opinion written by Judge Benjamin Cardozo by which the case is remembered. Commentators today applaud the prescience of Cardozo for an early articulation of what eventually would become bioethical orthodoxy concerning informed consent and its place as a bulwark of patient autonomy. They inevitably quote Cardozo's famous statement, “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body.”

Ethical and legal issues in the care of people with dementia

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Jones
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Ethical And Legal Issues ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

This paper addresses some ethical and legal issues which arise in the UK in the care of people with dementia, focusing on the law in England and Wales – updating and revising the 1997 and earlier version. The ‘end of medical ethics’ continues to be debated, with an attendant fear of doctors’ responsibility and authority being fatally eroded by administrators and cost controllers, concerned only with budgets and ‘bureaucratic parsimony’.

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