Ethical Issues of Sterility Treatment

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

Ethical Issues

Ethical Issues

Introduction Most professional organizations whose members deal with trauma victims have published ethical standards for treatment-related issues. Examples include the AAMFT Code of Ethics published by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Ethical Principles for Psychologists published by the American Psychological Association, the Principles of Medical Ethics with Ann...

Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Transplantation

There is great interest worldwide in discovering and developing a permanent source of tissues which would be capable of generating any cell type and which would avoid the problem of transplant rejection. Stem cells are cells that can specialize into the many different cells found in the human body. The ethical objections concerning stem cells have focused primarily on their source. Human embry...

Ethical issues of stereotyping.

Stereotyping is a subject of singular relevance to ethics in general and to bioethics in particular. Every medical interaction in the doctor-patient dyad has the potential to involve individuals in stereotypic views, each of the other member. Such occurs in any traditional doctor-patient consultation, where at first interview both the doctor and the patient bring an a priori view of the other’s...