Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

Torture doctors invent and oversee techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars. Their knowledge of the body and its breaking poi...

If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded? Each ye...

The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shar...

Our schools and healthcare institutions have abandoned the Hippocratic Oath and the Declaration of Geneva and replaced it with a policy of lethalis...

Contracting surrogate mothers is no longer marginal. Nor is it secret. Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social im...

Disaster medicine has occupied an increasingly important niche within the specialty of emergency medicine over the latter half of the 20th century....

Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only v...

Tim dedicates this frank, no-holds-barred account to all those who find themselves in the same boat, both sufferers and relatives, all of whom, onc...

Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential. Ibram X. Kendi Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say no to risky medi...

Everyday clinical practice is steeped in ethical considerations, but discussion of ethics is often removed from these real-life situations. Kath M ...