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". 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death. 
  • 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. 
  • Can physicians' care be neutral regarding religion? 
  • 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. 
  • Comprehensive care of the elderly patient with cancer. 
  • Concealed medicines for people with schizophrenia: a U.S. perspective. 
  • Confronting real time ethical, legal, and social issues in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Consortium. 
  • Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. 
  • Conscience as clinical judgment: medical education and the virtue of prudence. 
  • Conscience is the means by which we engage the moral dimension of medicine. 
  • 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. 
  • Creating a global rare disease patient registry linked to a rare diseases biorepository database: Rare Disease-HUB (RD-HUB). 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Double-blind coumadin research--an ethical dilemma. 
  • 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 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 dilemmas in women's health in under-resourced settings. 
  • 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. 
  • Ethics Never Left. 
  • Ethics of a randomized trial of periconceptual vitamins. 
  • 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. 
  • Evaluating humanistic attributes of internal medicine residents. 
  • Failure to discount for conflict of interest when evaluating medical literature: a randomised trial of physicians. 
  • For M.D.'s, ethics can't be frills. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Lessons learned from recent cardiovascular clinical trials: Part II. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Lying to each other: when internal medicine residents use deception with their colleagues. 
  • Management of the fetus with a correctable congenital defect. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Misinterpretation of the American College of Radiology white paper on managing incidental thyroid nodules. 
  • Never too old? Age should not be a barrier to enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • North Carolina law expands pool of eligible healthcare professionals to oversee executions by lethal injection. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Presidential address: physician accountability--winning the public trust. 
  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1. 
  • 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? 
  • 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. 
  • Responding to requests regarding prayer and religious ceremonies by patients near the end of life and their families. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 4: Appropriate clinical care and issues of "self-referral". 
  • Task force 5: Expert testimony and opinions. 
  • Teaching corner: the prospective case study : a pedagogical innovation for teaching global health ethics. 
  • 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 clinical introduction of genetic testing for Alzheimer disease. An ethical perspective. 
  • The controversy over retrospective moral judgment. 
  • 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 ethical justification for minor sibling bone marrow donation: a case study. 
  • The ethics of aggregation and hormone replacement therapy. 
  • The ethics of using Web technology to find research participants. 
  • The euthanasia debate and empirical evidence: separating burdens to others from one's own quality of life. 
  • The health effects of economic sanctions and embargoes: the role of health professionals. Ethics and Human Rights Committee. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 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, Divinity School
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Tenenbaum, Jessica Dale, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke Science & Society