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Issues in bioethics. Ethics and professional responsibilities.

The evolution of ethics in medicine has provided the concept of the learned physician who is trained in the scientific method (studying nature and philosophy), and who is wise, modest and humane. The physician's manner, deportment and character should be above reproach, and devotion to the productive art of medicine should supersede any desire for financial gain. Professionalism provides the organizational structure through which the medical doctor performs his/her healing role, and underscores the concept that medical professionals should be moral and devoted to the public good, displaying altruism at the expense of self-interest, and providing accountability. This article examines some of the obligations that arise within this milieu.

Bioethical Issues↗

Philosophical challenges in teaching bioethics: the importance of professional medical ethics and its history for bioethics.

The papers in this number of the Journal originated in a session sponsored by the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Medicine in 1999. The four papers and two commentaries identify and address philosophical challenges of how we should understand and teach bioethics in the liberal arts and health professions settings. In the course of introducing the six papers, this article explores themes these papers raise, especially the relationship among professional medical ethics, the "long history" of medical ethics, and bioethics. The tendency of bioethics to deprofessionalize medical ethics is rejected, in favor of an historically informed professional medical ethics. It is suggested that bioethics should be critically reconsidered from the perspective of medical ethics as professional ethics.

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Ethical dilemmas reported by fourth-year dental students.

Ethics education in dentistry is a requirement for accreditation. Despite universal adoption of ethics courses, there is ongoing discussion about the appropriate content of these courses and about methods to engage students. Faculty who teach ethics must select a limited set of topics from the broad fields of professional ethics, bioethics, and the humanities. The purpose of this article is to describe the ethical issues reported by fourth-year dental students during community-based extramural clinical experiences. Senior dental students (n=123) wrote essays describing an ethical issue they encountered during one of two extramural rotations. Ethical issues were categorized and coded by consensus between two faculty authors. Students most often reported perceived dilemmas related to patients' limited resources (25 percent), conflict between professionals (19 percent), clinic policy or procedures (15 percent), and decision making by patients' surrogates (13 percent). One student (<1 percent) reported encountering no ethical issues. Students' perceptions of ethical issues in clinical practice offer faculty a foundation for designing a dental ethics curriculum that is practical and immediately relevant to the experience of a dental student. Students' reports may also yield a method for systematic assessment of students' abilities to apply classroom ethics instruction to clinical practice.

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[Ethics and health. Challenges and reflections].

In this essay, the concepts of ethics, bioethics, and professional ethics are reviewed. In addition, we analyzed the relationship between ethics and medicine, the conditions that can be source of ethical dilemmas, and the influence of ethics in the doctor-patient relationship, in the clinical work of the physician, and in an individual and institutional process of decision-making. Some factors that result from the interrelationship between ethics and health care, in particular the need for preserving and increasing the human dimension in medical practice, are discussed. Finally, the idea is supported that to achieve the purpose previously mentioned, three challenges must to be overcome: to defeat reductionism in analysis of medical matters, to accept the uncertainty of medical work and the attempt to reach adequate levels of equity in the development of health services.

Ethics, Clinical↗

Issues in bioethics. Teaching medical ethics to health professionals.

New medical technologies, public concern about medical ethics, and the advent of numerous ethical dilemmas in healthcare have led many medical schools to increase their formal teaching of ethics. Ethical issues in healthcare may involve a complex mix of scientific, economic, social, cultural, religious, moral and legal issues. Education in medical ethics will therefore need to be on-going to accommodate changes that periodically occur in healthcare issues, policies, or the changing moral values of the society. This article proposes frameworks within which this process may occur.

Education, Medical↗

What is nursing ethics?

This article tries to bring some clarity into the current confusion about the nature of nursing ethics. It distinguishes between the empirical, prescriptive and analytic dimensions of ethics. It then describes six contemporary understandings of the parameters and aims of ethics via six different approaches: moral education, management, professional conduct, bioethics, clinical ethics and political ethics.

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