Philosophy, ethics, medicine and health care: the urgent need for critical practice

Philosophy, ethics, medicine and health care: the urgent need for critical practice.

Reader in Applied Philosophy, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Assista...

Philosophy , ethics , medicine and health care : the urgent need for critical

Reader in Applied Philosophy, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire, Crewe, UK Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Assista...

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Expanding the open-access conversation on health care

Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration of the grounding concepts and ethical principles that underlie health care remains paramount. It...

The European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care

The urgent need to improve health care quality. Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality.

OBJECTIVE To identify issues related to the quality of health care in the United States, including its measurement, assessment, and improvement, requiring action by health care professionals or other constituencies in the public or private sectors. PARTICIPANTS The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality, convened by the Institute of Medicine, a component of the National Academy of Science...