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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

However, having a right to health may be insufficient, on its own, to enforce adequate regulations and ethical principles to develop a health system which respects patient autonomy and their individual values and preferences.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.”

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues. There are also questions about how to assess whether students will make more ethical decisions in practice.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

Bill of Health

Representation, in so many modes, plays a huge role in how we get sorted and understood — how we are read by therapists, by doctors, by researchers, by gamers, and by the world more generally. These representations shape our lives.

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

Bill of Health

But many routine practices — assessing capacity, acquiring informed consent, advance care planning, and allocating resources, for instance — are. And given the importance of these endpoints, it is worth determining whether ethics education improves clinicians’ decision making across these domains.