Focus: current issues in medical ethics.

Focus: current issues in medical ethics.

The current debates about seat belts in motor cars and the evils of smoking may only be straws in the wind if the scenario sketched in this paper were translated into a social, political programme. Then 'illness would increasingly be seen as a failure to keep healthy and thus culpable. The failures [the patients] ... must either be irresponsible and hence punishable at least by the imposition o...

Onm-16: Ethics Issues in Assisted ReproductiveTechnology

Current and Emerging Issues in Medical Malpractice

First, an update will be provided with respect to the duty of care owed by physicians to an unborn child, and the ability of that child, once born alive, to claim in negligence against that physician. This update will focus on the Court of Appeal’s 2008 decisions in Bovingdon v. Hergott and Paxton v. Ramji, and the decision of the Court of Appeal in Liebig v. Guelph General Hospital released in...

By whose authority? Emerging issues in medical ethics.

D IS an awkward, deeply disturbing mystery of the human condition. Since the day Homo erectus first acquired a limp, we have struggled to understand why. Disease, like death, is inescapable. But from prehistoric times to the present, there have always been healers who have responded to the profound needs of the sick. Questions have sometimes arisen about the propriety of the solutions healers h...

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 ...