Talk:Medical ethics

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Contents 1 Not 2 Bioethics 3 The Pew Charitable Trusts initiative restored 4 More issues

[edit] Not

Not exactly on topic, but is there a sorta guideline on Wikipedia that ensures that images of medical procedures/conditions have been taken and uploaded with the informed consent of the patient involved? in order to safeguard patient confidentiality and all that. Kenkoo1987 09:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bioethics

Medical ethics is -bioethics- why isn't there more incorporation between the two articles?--nixie 12:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

There is a distinction between the two, as medical ethics is a subset of the larger realm of bioethics. The distinction isn't mentioned yet over on the bioehtics article, which right now focuses mostly on medicine and lacks attention to agricultural and environmental ethics. Both articles need some sort of tags, since they need a lot of work. Ombudsman 02:54, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it is correct that they should be kept separate. I already have both articles on my shortlist for working on - but I may not get round to it for a couple of months or so. (Anyone for cooperation?) Caravaca 06:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

In my view, the overlap between medical ethics and bioethics may be too insubstantial to easily allow us to edit separate articles. Also, I disagree that medical ethics is a subset of bioethics. Rather, medical ethics is an older term that historically precedes bioethics. Bioethics was used, to some degree, to "overcome" the older approach. Thus, typically, the terms tend to represent two (or more) approaches to the same general sphere of ethics, though it is true that bioethics has been extended beyond the traditional medical ethics arena. HG 15:18, 3 May 2007 (UTC) (rev HG | Talk 03:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] The Pew Charitable Trusts initiative restored

Somebody deleted my addition:

The The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced the Prescription Project for "academic medical centers, professional medical societies and public and private payers to end conflicts of interest resulting from the $12 billion spent annually on pharmaceutical marketing".

because of concerns that this is an advertisement. This does not seem sensible to me as the purpose of the Prescription Project is to remove conflict of interests from health care. If we delete this statement, shouldn't we also delete reference to other similar initiatives such as the 'Good Medical Practice' statement and the ACP/AMA ethics manual? I do not mind deleting without discussion the run-of-the mill Joe's Snake Oil advertisements, but I think this one is different and merits discussion. ThanksBadgettrg

[edit] More issues

Couldn't the issues of abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering and embryo research be incorporated into this? Or do they properly belong somewhere else?Fledgeaaron (talk) 17:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)