Electronic communication in ethics committees: experience and challenges

New Challenges for Ethics Committees

Dr. Mitchell is chairperson, Department of Biomedical Ethics, School of Graduate Medical Education, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. He is also director, Institute for Ethics, a division of the Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey. I n 1999 the Institute for Ethics, a division of the Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey, launched a program to assist institutional ethic...

Ethics committees and ethics consultants

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

Carol Haigh and Neil Jones Techno - Research and Cyber - Ethics : Challenges for Ethics Committees

Hospital Clinical Ethics Committees The Geneva Experience – Switzerland

In hospitals, ethics consultations and committees were a product of the 1970s in the United States of America (US). The US administration encouraged their development particularly when the influential 1983 report of the President’s Commission for the study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, entitled Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment, gave a signifi...

Resuscitation and hospital ethics committees.

The article ‘The ethics of resuscitation’, published in ‘Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy’ 3/2011, aroused much interest of the readers [1]. It deals with an important and often neglected issue of ethical dilemmas associated with decision making about the institution or otherwise of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The involvement of hospital ethics committees in ‘decision making about the insti...