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Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

Guidelines and Principles of Medical Ethics

must not vary according to culture, race, or socioeconomic status. The scenario presented above, however, is replete with ethical ...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Gilda Radner's Ovarian Cancer and the Role of Medical Care

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Questions on Medical Ethics

to the costs of technology, the costs of long-term care, and benefits of advanced technology in prolonging life. Q1: What are th...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Medical Missionaries and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the ethics and expenses involved in nurses serving as medical missionaries. Seven sources are ...

Nazi Experimentation and Medical Ethics

In ten pages this paper reviews 4 articles on the topic of medical ethics and Nazi's experimentation on humans. Five sources are ...

Right to Live and Medical Ethics

Study Andrew is a 68-year-old male who was admitted to a medical intensive care unit after experiencing a stroke. On life ...

Reproductive Biotechnologies, Ethical and Moral Systems

of assertion is challenged by medical interests, including corporate interests and the views of medical professionals, which shift...

Doing Good and Medical Ethics

Oath. This was traditionally taken by all graduating doctors, but many institutions do not insist on it toady. The original oath h...

Beneficence and Medical Ethics

do very good medicine. The two simply cant be removed from each other" (Rolph, 2003). This is an interesting premise because accor...

Euthanasia and Medical Ethics

such morality, we render ourselves essentially useless. In other words, Lachs contends that it is one thing to expound about the ...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

Medical Ethics and Plato's Noble Lie

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

Ethics and a Medical Malpractice Case Study

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

Managed Care and Medical Ethics

In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...

Ethical Dilemma and Medical Technology

It is undeniable that new technologies have increased the quality of life for many Americans faced with treatable disorders. But ...

Tuskegee Study and Medical Ethics

overhauled by Congress after Tuskegee hit the headlines in 1972. Today projects such as Tuskegee are reviewed by a panel of p...

Faith, Suffering, Ethics, and Human Medicine

In five pages this paper examines issues pertaining to human medicine such as ethics, suffering, and faith and whether or not ther...

Brain Stem Transplant Questions

In five pages this paper questions the ethics of brain stem transplants in a consideration of an article on the subject and philos...

Medical Ethics and Disclosure of HIV

In five pages the issue of HIV disclosure is examined from the perspective of medical ethics in a consideration of the perspective...

Implications of Fertility Drug Usage

In five pages the medical ethics, theological, and philosophical issues associated with fertility drug usage are explored. Fourte...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...