Doctors' attitudes, medical philosophy, and political views.

Attitudes and Views of Medical Students toward Science and Pseudoscience.

OBJECTIVES To know opinions, attitudes and interest of medical students toward science and pseudoscience. DESIGN A questionnaire was administered to 124 medical students of the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. RESULTS 173 students were surveyed. The response rate was 72%. Eighty-three percent (100/121) of respondents said that science is the best source of knowledge, 67% (82/123) said t...

Bioethics down under--medical ethics engages with political philosophy.

T he beginning of November last year was a busy time in the bioethics calendar with four conferences taking place in New Zealand and Australia. The Fifth International Conference on Priorities in Health Care took place in Wellington; the Fifth Feminist Approaches to Bioethics congress, the Seventh World Congress of Bioethics, and the meeting of the Australasian Bioethics Association were all in...

MEDICAL NEWS AND VIEWS

MEDICAL NEWS and VIEWS

Cluster randomization and political philosophy.

In this paper, I will argue that, while the ethical issues raised by cluster randomization can be challenging, they are not new. My thesis divides neatly into two parts. In the first, easier part I argue that many of the ethical challenges posed by cluster randomized human subjects research are clearly present in other types of human subjects research, and so are not novel. In the second, more ...