Volume 40, Number 1

January 2011

Preserving Medical Ethics and Professionalism: Meeting the Challenges of Modern Practice

Medical practitioners today are confronted with an unprecedented degree of complex challenges and expectations. At the same time, their conduct and services are placed...

Evaluating the Effects of an Integrated Medical Ethics Curriculum on First-year Students

Knowledge and confidence, and positive or negative attitudes in relation to medical ethics, are affected by medical ethics education. Mainstreaming and formalising ethics education...

Hospital Policy on Medical Futility — Does it Help in Conflict Resolution and Ensuring Good End-of-Life Care?

The concept of medical futility has been present since antiquity, and traditionally marked the shift in the primary goal of care to providing physical...

An Approach to the Ethical Evaluation of Innovative Surgical Procedures

Innovative surgery is perhaps best defined as “a novel procedure, a significant modification of a standard technique, a new application of or a new...

The Ethics of Responding to a Novel Pandemic

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” -Albert Camus (1957 Nobel Prize for Literature) As the microscopic ‘wild beasts’ of infectious...