T H I S BOOK IS A SEQUEL T O R O B E R T Veatch's earlier work, The Patient as Partner: A Tlieory of Human Experimentation Ethics. Us ing the same under ly ing theory of a pa r tne r sh ip between professionals and the public they serve, this work examines the partnership relationship in the context of clinical medicine. The first portion of the text summarizes the theoretical basis of the part...

In the paper the major sources of influence on the socio-technical perspective are identified and two socio-technical approaches are compared, namely the Tavistock approach and the ETHICS method developed by Mumford. The Tavistock approach has provided crucial contributions at the work system level, particularly principles for socio-technical design and models for job design (how to design jobs...

This study describes which clinical ethics approaches are available to support healthcare personnel in clinical practice in terms of their construction, functions and goals. Healthcare personnel frequently face ethically difficult situations in the course of their work and these issues cover a wide range of areas from prenatal care to end-of-life care. Although various forms of clinical ethics ...

Professional and accreditation organizations have endorsed medical ethics as a fundamental component of education for family medicine trainees. Yet various obstacles combine to work against the continuation of formal medical ethics education beyond medical school and into residency training. This article reviews the current consensus on the scope and objectives of medical ethics education in th...