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題 名 | Medical Ethics Education: World Trends and the Harvard Experience=醫學倫理教育:世界趨勢與哈佛經驗 |
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作 者 | Good, Mary-jo DelVecchio; Good, DelVecchio Mary-jo; Good, Mary-jo DelVecchio; | 書刊名 | 醫學教育 |
卷 期 | 2:2 1998.06[民87.06] |
頁 次 | 頁14-25 |
分類號 | 410.3、410.3 |
關鍵詞 | 醫學倫理教育; 世界趨勢; 哈佛經驗; Medical ethics education; World trends; Harvard experience; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The globalization of bioethical discourses has intensified as rapid advances in biomedical technologies have broadened clinical possibilities, whether to produce life, to extend it through extraordinary measures, or to bring life to conclusion. Concomitantly, the financial cost of bioethical possibilities and the inequities in distribution of resources and access to even basic health care have heightened the discussion of economic realities in bioethical debates. Tensions about the rights of individual patients and what is best for "the medical commons" are central to these discussions. Medical ethics has classically focused on relationships between clinicians, medical care institutions, and patients and patients' families. Recently, as for-profit managed care organizations have expanded in the United States, the bioethics community has been challenged to critically examine conflicts between what is ethical treatment of patients versus what is beneficial for "the corporation". Although this topic is characteristically American, given the largely private domain of health care delivery, parallel discussions are taking place else where in the world. For example, in the Scandinavian countries, well financed public health care systems are being dismantled and privatization has increased. Clinicians and patients are dismayed by this current political and societal turn, and are raising questions about the ethics of reducing public investment in and commitment to universal health care. |
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