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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.
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.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
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.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
Fred Friendly Seminars, in association with Thirteen/WNET, produced a three-part series called Our Genes/Our Choices, which the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) premiered nationally in January 2003 to some 2.3 million viewers.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The field of public health has had no written code of ethics to guide professionals in addressing the wide variety of ethical dilemmas that arise in their practice.
August 1, 2001 | Program Result
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.
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.
March 1, 2008 | Program Result
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.
August 1, 1999 | Program Result
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.
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
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.