Switch to: Citations

References in:

Education, Practice and Bioethics: Growing Barriers to Ethical Practice [Book Review]

Health Care Analysis 11 (2):171-179 (2003)

Add references

You must login to add references.

Curiosity, imagination, compassion, science and ethics: Do curiosity and imagination serve a central function? [REVIEW]Erich H. Loewy - 1998 - Health Care Analysis 6 (4):286-294.details Curiosity and imagination have been neglected in epistemology. This paper argues that the role of curiosity and imagination is central to the way we think, regardless of whether it is thinking about problems of ethics or problems of science. In our ever more materialistic society, curiosity and reason are either discouraged or narrowly channeled. I shall argue that the role of curiosity and imagination for both science and ethics is so important that nurturing them can be seen as an ethical (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Of Healthcare Professionals, Ethics, and Strikes.Erich H. Loewy - 2000 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (4):513-520.details The question of whether physicians or other healthcare workers are ethically entitled to strike is troubling in that it entails a conflict in obligations. This question of a conflict of obligations (and the answer to it) has wider implications for many other workers. Download Export citation Bookmark 9 citations
An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management.Ben A. Rich - 2000 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (1):54-70.details Among the most significant findings of SUPPORT was that 50% of ICU patients suffered from moderate to severe pain during the last days of life. At the time of its publication late in 1995, SUPPORT was merely the latest in a long series of articles in the medical literature documenting the widespread and significant undertreatment of pain, beginning with a 1973 study of hospital inpatients. Much has been written about the phenomenon of undertreated pain and inadequate care of patients at (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 11 citations
Textbook of Medical Ethics.Erich H. Loewy - 1989 - Springer Verlag.details When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first begin to become involved in clinical decision making, they soon find that more than the technical data they had so carefully learned is involved. Prior to that time, of course, they were aware that more than technology was involved in practicing medicine, but here, for the first time, the reality is forcefully brought home. It may be on the medical ward, when a patient or a patient's relatives ask that no (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations

1