Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

Over the last 50 or 60 years, there has appeared a directional shift in the medical and social culture of the United States. We see it in the news ...

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallowJesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergra...

In Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process ...

To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard wa...

Handing envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in public health care is often seen as a remnant of socialism that continues as an integral ...

In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish cou...