Health Care the Most Trusted Profession
December 18, 2011 | Story
Nurses, pharmacists and doctors top Gallup's annual "honesty and ethical standards" poll.
Ethics/Bioethics
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Bioethics, Raw and Cooked
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the author considers the life-cycle of bioethical principles from private ethical conflicts to public spectacle to ingrained policy within health care organizations. Essentially contested total social conflicts have given rise to the language of principlism.
Professional Obligations When Patients Pay Out of Pocket
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the ethical responsibility of physicians to their patients when patients' health care decisions are influenced by financial considerations. As consumer-directed health care increases the amount of money patients pay out of pocket for medical services, new responsibilities emerge for physicians.
One Code for All Seasons and Disciplines May Not Suit All Countries
August 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement prepared a statement of ethical principles for health-care workers that bridges disciplinary boundaries and provides a point of reference for all parties - doctors, nurses, other caregivers, managers and payers.
Charting a Course for Ethics in Managed Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The American Geriatrics Society, New York, and the Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., a bioethics research institute, co-sponsored the Congress of Clinical Societies, a two-day conference at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 7-8, 1996, that addressed ethical issues raised by the advent of managed care.
Students Stand at the Crossroads of Science and Ethics
August 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Student PUGWASH USA is a nonprofit national student organization that promotes increased awareness of the social and ethical aspects of science and technology through publications and meetings.
Stand by Me, Hippocrates
October 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The Foundation for Medical Excellence, Lake Oswego, Ore., examined, through a national survey of physicians, the impact on clinical practice that physicians attribute to witnessing a medical oath or covenant.
Program in Ethical Leadership Established at Penn State to Perpetuate Credo of Corporate Responsibility of J & J Founder
March 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication established the General Robert Wood Johnson Program in Ethical Leadership to identify and help correct the causes of ethical lapses increasingly present in American life.
Book Analyzes Plato's Laws in Relation to Today's Medical and Political Climates
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Randall Baldwin Clark at the University of Virginia Law School Foundation, Charlottesville, Va., finished and disseminated his book, The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato's Laws.
Forum Attendees Debate the Ethics of Biomedical Research
December 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust sponsored an invitational forum on ethical challenges in biomedical research and practice and published a report on the forum.