principle of beneficence may weigh more heavily than respecting individual autonomy. Adults with appropriate decision-making capacity express their autonomy through the informed consent process. Physicians demonstrate respect for the autonomy…
Table 47.2. Factors influencing discrete categorization of the wounded help protect (or at least not breach) the internal morality of military physicians, whose behavior by virtue of formal and informal…
Table 49.2. Fractionalization of responsibility during executions to diffuse responsibility (Note: not all institutions have identical execution processes, so these examples may not be universal) the execution procedure; monitoring vital…
* summarized from the Committee on Publication Ethics http://www.publicationethics.org/files/u2/New_Code.pdf. and that any potential personal conflicts of interest are avoided or at least made transparent. COPE has outlined a code of…
background and perspective from the US Jane C. Ballantyne and Joseph Klein The three cases Please refer to the previous chapter’s cases for discussion. Opium addiction as a social problem…
* Adapted by Medical Triage Policy, Yale–New Haven Hospital. example, when the demand for ICU beds exceeds capacity, physicians may have to deny admission to patients who might benefit.3 Similarly,…
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number rather than the particular good of the patients at hand. This rule is justified only because of the clear necessity of general public welfare in a crisis.2 Justice Patients’…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 45 Ethical principles regarding physician response to disasters: pandemics, natural disasters, and terrorism Susan K. Palmer The Case During morning rush hour, a subway station in a major…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 44 The ethics of expert testimony Louise B. Andrew The Case Dr. X is contacted by an attorney in a plaintiff’s firm with which he has worked frequently…
