Preventive ethics, professional integrity, and boundary setting: the clinical management of moral uncertainty
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Physicians constantly face moral issues that have no prescribed rules in their practice. Thus, they must approach aspects of practice that have uncertain ethical consequences using their individual judgments. However, much emphasis is already being placed in patient autonomy that limits the physician's role in deciding what would be the best form of treatment. Preventive ethics practice minimizes conflicts between patients and doctors by requiring informed consent, persuasion and an appeal to an ethics committee to justify medical procedures.
Publication Name: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0360-5310
Year: 1995
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Introduction: why protect the human genome?
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The human genome must be protected through civil rights as well as laws and regulations, as it is the basis for a person's identity, gifts from nature and challenges. In Europe, human genome issues such as genetic diagnosis and screening programs, patenting of DNA and other biological products, and germline therapy and cloning have been dominating the discourse on bioethics. Education and information are needed for a better understanding of these issues and, eventually, acceptance of the human genome as the heritage of humanity.
Publication Name: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0360-5310
Year: 1998
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Reification and synergy in clinical ethics and its adequacy to the managed practice of medicine
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Reification of methods will weaken the response of clinical ethics to managed practice of medicine. Since medicine has evolved into corporate structures to which managed care is merely a part of, exclusive ethical focus on managed care must be avoided. The managed practice of medicine needs many available methods. Competition among these different methods would result in lesser communication and criticism among them.
Publication Name: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0360-5310
Year: 1996
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