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March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Physicians can be more confident in their approach to ethical challenges in patient care if they adopt a systematic approach to address the issues. The authors recognize that a problem which initially appears to be ethical in nature may be more rela ...
October 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Clinicians now can diagnose Alzheimer's disease before the onset of debilitating cognitive impairment
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Altruism, a selfless concern for the welfare of others, determines whether dentists are willing to serve disadvantaged populations. This study examined demographic characteristics that influence altruism among dental students the authors evaluated the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Dental Pipeline Program.
March 22, 2005 | Program Result
The New Jersey Office for the Ombudsman for the Institutionalized Elderly, in collaboration with the Stein Ethics Network at the Cooper Health System in Camden, N.J., developed and organized the New Jersey Long-Term Care Ethics Network.
January 1, 2003 | Journal Article
This article proposes an ethical template for pharmacy benefits and a fair process for using it. The template delineates four levels of decisions about pharmacy coverage, connecting ethically acceptable types of rationales for limits with decisions ...
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Since the 1960s, scientists and pharmaceutical representatives have called for the advancement and development of new antimicrobial drugs to combat infectious diseases. In January 2005, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), M.D., introduced a bi ...
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.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
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.
July 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The “Ward Ethics” program is described in the current article. Ward Ethics was comprised of sessions for third year medical students in their clinical rotations. Discussion of ethical situations was encouraged within the 24 sessions of the program a ...
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
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.