Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice. As widely reported in the news and on social ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown’s claim that this week’s industrial action by doctors “crosses an ethical line” misunderstands doctors’ ethical responsibilities. Doctors and nurses, together with ...

Medical ethics is a pivotal field that provides guidance for the conduct of medical professionals and ensures the integrity of medical practice, protecting the interests of all patients. Misconduct ...

Source: Getty Images The burden of public health interventions must not be substantially greater than the expected public health gains. Public health measures that curtail individual freedoms must be ...

Now, most American physicians don’t own their own practices; they work for institutions—investor-owned, non-profit, or public—as employees or contractors. Discussions of ethics in health care must ...

It is clear to us, as legal and bioethics scholars whose research often focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of emerging biotechnologies, that these directives will have profoundly ...

As public trust declines and technology transforms decision-making, CFOs must lead with ethics, not just compliance. Plato once said, "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly." In ...

All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the ...