Defining “Global Health Ethics”

Global health ethics for students.

As a result of increased interest in global health, more and more medical students and trainees from the 'developed world' are working and studying in the 'developing world'. However, while opportunities to do this important work increase, there has been insufficient development of ethical guidelines for students. It is often assumed that ethics training in developed world situations is applica...

Imperialism, research ethics and global health.

Defining chronic pain ethics.

OBJECTIVE To identify current issues in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. DESIGN Focus groups were convened to discuss the current issues in chronic pain care. Commentary was analyzed across focus groups using an interpretivist method of qualitative data analysis. Setting.  Focus groups were held in five major US cities throughout the United States. PARTICIPANTS Key stakeholders ...

Defining nursing ethics apart from medical ethics.

A dean of a major nursing school recently said. ., "We're not interested in medical ethics; there is virtually nothing there that is pertinent to nursing. Nursing has its own issues, problems, and principles, and they're quite different from, and often opposed to, those of medicine." She might well have gone on to point out that nursing also has its established codes of ethics and doesn't need ...

Ethics and governance of global health inequalities.

BACKGROUND A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate principles, duties and responsibilities, and hold global and national actors morally responsible for achiev...