Role of Ethics Committees, Ethics Networks, and Ethics Centers in Improving End-of-Life Care

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 ...

End-of-life care and Catholic ethics.

Economics, ethics, and end-of-life care.

PRESSURE TO REDUCE TOTAL HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES IN THE UNITED States has intensified. Despite a contracting health care budget that has sensitized society to the issues of resource allocation, the demand for the health care dollar has continued to expand. The disciplines of economics and bioethics have each outlined strategies to mitigate this conflict. Yet because of divergent core preferenc...

The Role and Composition of Research Ethics Committees

تحقیقات در علوم سلامت، طیف وسیعی از انواع مطالعات را در بر می‌گیرد. برای مثال، این تحقیقات می‌تواند شامل مطالعات آزمایشگاهی، یا پژوهش‌هایی که بر روی حیوانات به عمل می‌آید را در بر گیرد. هم‌چنین، تحقیقاتی که در سطح بالین بیماران به عمل ‌آمده و یا تحقیقات اپیدمیولوژیک که در سطح افراد، گروه‌ها و جوامع صورت می‌پذیرد را نیز، شامل شود ]1[. برای این که همه این تحقیقات، به درستی طراحی شده و به اهداف از...

Ethics perspectives on end-of-life care.

T echnologic advancements in aggressive medical management at the end of life now have led more Americans to fear how they die than death itself. The lay popular press 1-4 reflects how widespread is public dissatisfaction about health care system management of dying in the United States. Surveys5 indicate that if given the choice, most Americans would avoid aggressive intensive care unit (ICU) ...