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Currents in Contemporary Ethics: Reforming Medical Ethics Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Serge A. Martinez
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Biomedical advances of the past 20 years have stimulated a renewed interest in medical ethics. Transplantation of multiple human organs, implantation of artificial devices, advances in genetics, and stem cell research are a few of the medical procedures and discoveries that have awakened in both professionals and the public an awareness that medical discoveries often raise important ethical and societal issues. Today, members of the medical profession face issues that did not seem so pressing to their predecessors, and physician conduct in response to many of these issues involves decision-making based on ethical principles. Issues of informed consent, gifts from pharmaceutical companies, and patient rights to privacy were not of great concern to most physicians a generation ago. However, these and other topics that involve a physician's ethical conduct have become increasingly pertinent to the practice of medicine.

A renewed emphasis on ethics has been voiced by leaders in the field of medicine.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , Fall 2002 , pp. 452 - 454
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002

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