Medical Ethics
Medical ethics help set forth the rules of one of life's most basic relationships: that between doctor and patient. The practice of medicine involves many ethical issues. One of the most basic issues a doctor faces is deciding how to balance potential good and potential harm. To help doctors deal with these issues, medical organizations have established codes of ethics that outline the duties of a physician to patients and to the public.
Like nearly all professions, the medical industry has unscrupulous practitioners. However, most doctors, whether in Western or Eastern nations, adhere to basic codes of ethics. For doctors who have been trained in the Western tradition, the two most important codes are the Hippocratic Oath---including its modern version---and Thomas Percival's Code…>> (read more)
Medical Ethics Points of View
5 Rationing Health Care Can Be Ethical
6 Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide Does Not Lead to Abuses
7 America's Class Structure Has Created an Unfair Health Care System
8 Rationing Health Care Is Unethical
9 Creating a Market for the Sale of Organs Is Ethical
10 Allowing Hospitals to Make End-of-Life Decisions Leads to the Mistreatment of Vulnerable Patients
11 Health Maintenance Organizations Must Learn to Act Ethically
12 Animal-to-Human Transplantation Is Dangerous and Immoral
13 Creating a Market for the Sale of Organs Is Not Ethical
14 Human Reproductive Cloning Is Not Ethical
15 Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Ethical
16 Religious Arguments Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research Are Baseless
17 Sex Selection Is Not Ethical
18 Reproductive Technologies Should Not Be Federally Funded
19 Feminists' Support of Reproductive Technologies Is Misguided
20 Human Reproductive Cloning Is Ethical
21 Cloning Runs Counter to Christian Beliefs
22 Adult Stem Cell Research Should Replace Embryonic Stem Cell Research
23 Consent for Cadaver Organ Donation Is Unnecessary
24 Removing Vital Organs from Living Donors Is Unethical
25 Fear of Reproductive Technologies Is Unfounded
26 Sex Selection Is Ethical
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Medical Ethics in the News
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