Figure 33.1. Figure 33.1. Reproduced by permission from J. Sabin. Cost-containment ethics requires fiduciary trust of both physicians and institutions to disclose their summative integrity for patient care under rationing…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 32 The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist Monica Escher and Samia Hurst The Case Dr. Smith is an anesthesia…
erupted led to the formation of the National Bioethics Commission and the elaboration of what became known as the Belmont Report. The Belmont Report elaborated three basic principles: autonomy, beneficence,…
Summarized from: McLaughlin, L.A. and Braun, K.L. (1998). Asian and pacific islander cultural values: considerations for health care decision-making. Health and Soc Work, 23(2), 116–26. Autonomous persons The terms “capacity”…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 29 Animal subjects research Part II: Ethics of animal experimentation Gail A. Van Norman The Case Fifty hemophilic mice are anesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (which…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 28 Animal subjects research Part I: Do animals have rights? Nancy S. Jecker The Case of Laika In 1957, a stray dog from Moscow named Laika, described by…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> 27 Ethics in anesthesiology research using human subjects A.M. Viens The Case A group of anesthesia researchers undertook a research project to determine if injection of a sedative…
pain treatment except in modes of drug delivery. The desire for simple techniques for relieving pain has led doctors, particularly pain clinicians, to see opioids as a useful and valuable…
considerations for practice, ethics and policy James Giordano and Gerhard Höver The Casea A 61-year-old woman with metastatic colon cancer presents with intractable abdominal pain. Since her initial diagnosis 13…
no objective tests for pain, which is by definition a subjective experience. Pain scores, often on a scale of 0 to 10, are useful compare the improvement or lack thereof…
