Changing Trends in Medical Ethics

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    Changing Trends In Medical Ethics

  • Veatch, Robert M. “How Philosophy of Medicine Has Changed Medical Ethics.”Journal of Medicine & Philosophy 31.6 (2006):585-600. Print.

    This article discusses the history of major events that created and shaped philosophies of medicine,how they've evolved through socio-political interventions over the years, and how these philosophies interfe with contemporary medical ethics.

  • Clowdis, William G. “The Pharmacist's Duty to Warn.” Journal of Legal Medicine 31.3 (2010):287-302. Print.

    This articles discusses the importance of the pharmacists duty to warn and the historical legal consititutions created and inconsitences involved with pharmacist-patient relationships which consiquently raises ethical concerns regarding succesful treatment of patients,

  • Appelbaum, Paul S. and Gold, Azgad.“Psychiatrists’ Relationships with Industry: The Principal-Agent Problem.”. Harvard Review of Psychiatry (Taylor & Francis Ltd)18.5 (2010):255-265. Print.

    This article provides an analysis of an on-going ethical issue concerning physiciatrists and industry(typically pharmaceutical and medical devices) relationships and how interests of thes parties in physciatrists-patient relationships ultimately affect ethical diagnosis and drug therapy. Here we will see how fiscal interests of the industry have grown to majorly influence contemporary medical ethics.

  • Sade, Robert M. “INTRODUCTION: Brain Science in the 21st Century: Clinical Controversies and Ethical and Legal Implications.”Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42.2 (2014): 124-127. Print.

    This article discusses various reports within the issue on contemporary topics including neuroscience-related law, the ethical issues involving stress disorder , and the treatment of certain brain tumors.

  • Hernández, Astrid;Baños, Josep-E.;Llop, Cristina and Farré, Magí. “ The Definition of Placebo in the Informed Consent Forms of Clinical Trials.”PLoS ONE 9.11 (2014): 1-11. Print.

    This article discusses a study done revealing a lack of knowledge concerning placebo side effects provided to patients participating in placebo trials and also the importance for legally enforcing more informative consent forms for patients to make well-informed decisions when participating in such clinical trials.

  • Walton, Merrilyn and Kerridge, Ian.“Do no harm: Is it time to rethink the Hippocratic Oath?” Medical Education 48.1 (2014): p17. Print.

    This paper examines the ways in which health care and the health professions have changed over the last half-century and describes a range of environmental and contextual features that expose the inadequacies of the 1964 Oath in the worlds of today and the future.