Ethics, Medical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Righteous minds" in health care: measurement and explanatory value of social intuitionism in accounting for the moral judgments in a sample of U.S. physicians. 
  • "Two steps forward, one back" 
  • "Why can't I move, Doc?" Ethical dilemmas in treating conversion disorders. 
  • 2020 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Consensus Conference on Professionalism and Ethics: A Consensus Conference Report. 
  • A change in medical student attitudes of obstetrics-gynecology clerkships toward seeking consent for pelvic examinations on an anesthetized patient. 
  • ACC expert consensus document on ethical coding and billing practices for cardiovascular medicine specialists. American College of Cardiology. 
  • ACCF/AHA consensus conference report on professionalism and ethics. 
  • Abortion, death, and the sanctity of life. 
  • Acceptance of external funds by physician organizations: issues and policy options. 
  • Afterword: Giving good advice: it is not what doctors say, but how they say it. 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • American College of Cardiology/Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Clinical Expert Consensus Document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards. A report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents. 
  • An ethical façade? Medical students' miscomprehensions of substituted judgment. 
  • An inevitable dilemma: prenatal testing for mutations in the BRCA1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility gene. 
  • Application of a new multinomial phase II stopping rule using response and early progression. 
  • Assessing competency for concealed-weapons permits--the physician's role. 
  • Assisted suicide and the case of Dr. Quill and Diane. 
  • Between two worlds medical student perceptions of humor and slang in the hospital setting. 
  • Brain death: new questions and fresh perspectives. 
  • Burnout and Moral Distress in Oncology: Taking a Deliberate Ethical Step Forward to Optimize Oncologist Well-Being. 
  • Can physicians' care be neutral regarding religion? 
  • Can the Case Report Withstand Ethical Scrutiny? 
  • Catholicism and ethics: a reply to the editorial entitled "Sobering thoughts". 
  • Caution: conscience is the limb on which medical ethics sits. 
  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Clinical stroke trials: guarding against bias. 
  • Clinical trials:randomization before consent. 
  • Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics. 
  • Communitarians and medical ethicists: or "why I am none of the above". 
  • Comprehensive care of the elderly patient with cancer. 
  • Concealed medicines for people with schizophrenia: a U.S. perspective. 
  • Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. 
  • Conscience as clinical judgment: medical education and the virtue of prudence. 
  • Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis in a setting of budget constraints--is it equitable? 
  • Courage and Compassion: Virtues in Caring for So-Called "Difficult" Patients. 
  • Death of a living liver donor from illicit drugs. 
  • Decision making in pediatric oncology: who should take the lead? The decisional priority in pediatric oncology model. 
  • Development of a vaccine for the prevention of AIDS, a critical appraisal. 
  • Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Stem Cell Clinics: Ethical Considerations and Recommendations for the Health-Care Community. 
  • Distributing scarce livers: the moral reasoning of the general public. 
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders during surgery: ethical foundations for institutional policies in the United States. 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Does bedside rationing violate patients' best interests? An exploration of "moral hazard". 
  • Does bedside rationing violate patients' best interests? An exploration of "moral hazard". 
  • Does informed consent to research require comprehension? 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Ecological Health: Ethics as the Starting Place. 
  • Editors' Introduction: Examining Deeper Questions Posed by Disputes About Conscience in Medicine. 
  • Educating Resident and Fellow Physicians on the Ethics of Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Embedding Ethics Education in Clinical Clerkships by Identifying Clinical Ethics Competencies: The Vanderbilt Experience. 
  • Empirical research on informed consent. An annotated bibliography. 
  • Erosion in medical students' attitudes about telling patients they are students. 
  • Ethical aspects of banking placental blood for transplantation. 
  • Ethical challenges in the new world of maternal-fetal surgery. 
  • Ethical considerations for allocation of scarce resources and alterations in surgical care during a pandemic. 
  • Ethical considerations in research involving human subjects. 
  • Ethical considerations in research involving human subjects. 
  • Ethical considerations regarding the implementation of new technologies and techniques in surgery. 
  • Ethical dilemma in continuing a zidovudine-placebo trial in symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
  • Ethical dilemmas in continuing a zidovudine trial after early termination of similar trials. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Ethical ramifications of alternative means of recruiting research participants from cancer registries. 
  • Ethical standards for cardiothoracic surgeons' participation in social media. 
  • Ethics Never Left. 
  • Ethics for the pediatrician: a brave new pediatrics? Managing the desire for better children through biotechnological enhancement. 
  • Ethics in everyday pediatrics. 
  • Ethics of placebo-controlled trials of zidovudine to prevent the perinatal transmission of HIV in the Third World. 
  • Ethics of postmortem sperm retrieval: ethics of sperm retrieval after death or persistent vegetative state. 
  • Ethics without borders. 
  • Ethics, law, and medicine: today's crossroads. 
  • Failure to discount for conflict of interest when evaluating medical literature: a randomised trial of physicians. 
  • Flexible treatment strategies in chronic disease: clinical and research implications. 
  • For M.D.'s, ethics can't be frills. 
  • Forced anal examinations to ascertain sexual orientation and sexual behavior: An abusive and medically unsound practice. 
  • Framing for success: nocebo effects in thoracic surgery. 
  • From embryo to ethics: a career in science and social responsibility. An interview with Anne McLarne [by Brigid Hogan]. 
  • Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit. 
  • High quality care and ethical pay-for-performance: a Society of General Internal Medicine policy analysis. 
  • How Christian ethics became medical ethics: the case of Paul Ramsey. 
  • How can we draw the line between clinical care and medical research. 
  • How preliminary data affect people's stated willingness to enter a hypothetical randomized controlled trial. 
  • How proxies make decisions about research for patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Human gene therapy--of tortoises and hares. 
  • I'll be a monkey's uncle: a moral challenge to human genetic enhancement research. 
  • Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective . 
  • Interpretation of echocardiographic data: are physicians and sonographers violating the law? 
  • Is information always a good thing? Helping patients make "good" decisions. 
  • Is medical ethics education effective? 
  • Is there a place for lawyers on ethics committees? A view from the inside. 
  • Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments 
  • Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: some thoughts and concerns. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Lying to each other: when internal medicine residents use deception with their colleagues. 
  • Managing accrual in cooperative group clinical trials. 
  • Measuring the immeasurable core competency of professionalism. 
  • Medical Ethics in Qiṣāṣ (Eye-for-an-Eye) Punishment: An Islamic View; an Examination of Acid Throwing. 
  • Medical education as moral formation: an Aristotelian account of medical professionalsim. 
  • Medical ethics in the primary care setting. 
  • Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness: the impact of anticipated conflict on thresholds for end-of-life treatment. 
  • Medical paternalism or legal imperialism: not the only alternatives for handling Saikewicz-type cases. 
  • Medical, ethical and legal issues regarding thrombolytic therapy in the Jehovah's Witness. 
  • Medicine. Placebo-controls in short-term clinical trials of hypertension. 
  • Must a patient be a "person" to be a patient or my uncle Charlie is not much of a person but he is still my uncle Charlie. 
  • Myocardial infarction--Case studies of ethics in the consent situation. 
  • Never too old? Age should not be a barrier to enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Newborn Circumcision Techniques and Medical Ethics. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • Obstetrician-gynaecologists' opinions about conscientious refusal of a request for abortion: results from a national vignette experiment. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Optimization of informed consent for umbilical cord blood banking. 
  • Oral contraceptives as an over-the-counter medication. 
  • Organ donation and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. 
  • Outcome of examinations self-referred as a result of spiral CT of the abdomen. 
  • Outside the operating room--economic, regulatory, and legal challenges: a collection of perspectives and panel discussion. 
  • Oversight mechanisms for clinical research. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Patients, physicians, and clinical trials: the other side of the coins. 
  • Pediatric analgesic clinical trial designs, measures, and extrapolation: report of an FDA scientific workshop. 
  • Perceived comfort level of medical students and residents in handling clinical ethics issues. 
  • Perspective roundtable: lethal injection. 
  • Pharmacogenetic testing: not as simple as it seems. 
  • Physician awareness of the contents of the Hippocratic Oath. 
  • Physician-assisted suicide and advance directives concerning life support. 
  • Physician-assisted suicide. Both physicians and Christians should know that this is not an idea whose time has come. 
  • Physicians and execution. 
  • Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 
  • Physicians' duties in an era of cost containment: advocacy or betrayal? 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law: comparing Denmark and the USA. 
  • Physicians' quantitative assessments of medical futility. 
  • Physicians' willingness to participate in the process of lethal injection for capital punishment. 
  • Preserving stroke care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Potential issues and solutions. 
  • Presidential address: physician accountability--winning the public trust. 
  • Priorities for autism spectrum disorder risk communication and ethics. 
  • Prisoners on death row should be accepted as organ donors. 
  • Professionalism: looking for your blind spots. 
  • Project on the Good Physician: Further Evidence for the Validity of a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 1--history, rationale, consequences. 
  • Racial disparities in involuntary outpatient commitment: are they real? 
  • Radiosurgery, cost-effectiveness, gold standards, the scientific method, cavalier cowboys, and the cost of hope. 
  • Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs. 
  • Reimbursement update: looking toward the 1990s. 
  • Relevance of the rationalist-intuitionist debate for ethics and professionalism in medical education. 
  • Religion, conscience and clinical decisions. 
  • Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices. 
  • Reporting of preliminary data: time to take our sonographers "off the hook". 
  • Reproductive health care policies around the world. On basic and clinical research within the human assisted reproduction setting. 
  • Research in end-of-life settings: an ethical inquiry. 
  • Responsible surgical innovation and research in maternal-fetal surgery. 
  • Rethinking professionalism in medical education through formation. 
  • Safety of placebo controls in pediatric hypertension trials. 
  • Scientific and ethical concerns in neural fetal tissue transplantation. 
  • Scientific and social issues of human immunodeficiency virus vaccine development. 
  • Sequential clinical trials in cancer research. 
  • Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection at sentinel hospitals. 
  • Spanning our differences: moral psychology, physician beliefs, and the practice of medicine. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Sports medicine and ethics. 
  • Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic. 
  • Striving for excellence. A neglected challenge to young physicians. 
  • Subjectivity can be inhumane. 
  • Suspended judgment. Clinical trials of informed consent. 
  • Task force 2: Investigator participation in clinical research. 
  • Task force 5: Expert testimony and opinions. 
  • Teaching corner: the prospective case study : a pedagogical innovation for teaching global health ethics. 
  • The Controversy Over Retrospective Moral Judgment 
  • The Problem of Doping 
  • The SERI-ARVO Meeting and future challenges of ophthalmic research in Asia. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits. 
  • The biology and ethics of banking fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells for in utero transplantation. 
  • The birth of bioethics. 
  • The changing face of medicine: health care on the Internet. 
  • The demands and limits of care--ethical reflections on the moral dilemma of neonatal intensive care. 
  • The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes. 
  • The ethical challenges of a randomized controlled trial of involuntary outpatient commitment. 
  • The ethics of aggregation and hormone replacement therapy. 
  • The euthanasia debate and empirical evidence: separating burdens to others from one's own quality of life. 
  • The professionalism disconnect: do entering residents identify yet participate in unprofessional behaviors? 
  • The right to privacy and the duty to protect. 
  • The rise of empirical research in medical ethics: a MacIntyrean critique and proposal. 
  • The role of community values in setting healthcare priorities. Ethically and financially viable, or merely a "modest proposal?". 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The team physician: ethics and enterprise. 
  • The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing. Physician duties in a climate of cost containment. 
  • Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine. 
  • Three rear ends on the beach. Debating the ethics of medical advertising. 
  • To help the sick: an historical and ethical essay concerning the refusal to care for patients with AIDS. 
  • Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health. 
  • Training in adolescent psychiatry for general psychiatry residents: elements of a model curriculum. 
  • Transgender Children, Puberty Blockers, and the Law: Solutions to the Problem of Dissenting Parents 
  • Translating genomic biomarkers into clinically useful diagnostics. 
  • Transplantation in alcoholics: separating prognosis and responsibility from social biases. 
  • Treatment boundaries in the case management relationship: a clinical case and discussion. 
  • Trust in Managed Care Organizations 
  • US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment. 
  • Unethical Studies on Transplantation in Cardiothoracic Surgery Journals. 
  • Waterboarding is not torture: a physician's response. 
  • Weighing the Social and Ethical Considerations of Maternal-Fetal Surgery. 
  • What makes killing wrong? 
  • When clinical medicine collides with religion. 
  • When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related conflict in the medical encounter. 
  • Whistle-blowing in Medical School: A National Survey on Peer Accountability and Professional Misconduct in Medical Students. 
  • Who Should Ration? 
  • Why I am neither a communitarian nor a medical ethicist. 
  • Why journals should not publish articles funded by the tobacco industry. 
  • [End-of-life care in pediatrics: much more than a fight against entropy]. 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Curlin, Farr A, Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Tenenbaum, Jessica Dale, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke Science & Society