Medical Ethics

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. Such tenets may allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and work towards the same common goal. It is important to note that these four values are not ranked in order of importance or relevance and that they all encompass values pert ...more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
My Sister's Keeper
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
State of Wonder
Never Let Me Go
When Breath Becomes Air
Midwives
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Backgrounds
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniWonder Drug by Jennifer VanderbesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Good Doctor by Barron H. LernerFor the Public Good by Belle Boggs
Medical Ethics
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Abhijit Naskar
Abhijit The Useless (A Sonnet) At school I didn't even know the term neuroscience, Yet today I'm a symbol of neuroscience and psychology. As a kid I never even dreamed of becoming a scientist, I just wanted to observe the underpinnings of reality. After high school I failed my medical entrance exam, Yet to the world I am a vessel of ethics in medicine. I chose CS Engineering instead but soon dropped out, Yet today I am the epitome of responsible engineering. Failure and success are eternally ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Abhijit Naskar
To control disease is called treatment, To be aware of health is called wellness.
Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

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