The Health Policy Pathway teaches students in an immersive, experiential way how to apply policy concepts to current problems and questions in their healthcare environment. The Ethics Thread (ET) is ...

We are excited to offer up-to-date education and training virtually. Our faculty and collaborators research, teach and consult on ethics and policy topics across the Texas Medical Center. We know the ...

Syracuse University and LeMoyne College parnter for the "Intelligent Conversation Series," which has a medical theme this month. "Medical Ethics - The Complexities of Modern Medicine" takes place at 7 ...

Medical ethics examines the principles and values guiding professional practice and research in health care. It addresses the moral duties owed to patients, research participants, colleagues and ...

Medical ethics is most needed when doctors start practising. Yet this is also when formal teaching stops. This must change. I ...

Duty to Respond to In-Flight Medical Emergencies? Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the moral and legal considerations for physicians and nurses to respond to medical emergencies on an airplane. Medscape ...

In an article she wrote this past spring for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, bioethicist Laurie Zoloth approached from a Jewish perspective the moral choices posed by advances in genetic and ...

The field of medical ethics encompasses the principles and values that govern clinical practice, research, and public health policy. It seeks to balance the physician’s duty to care and ‘do no harm’ ...

Accepting Obesity Shouldn't Stop Us From Warning of Its Dangers A bioethicist says overweight people need emotional support and acceptance, but clinicians should not stop conveying that obesity is a ...