Professional responsibility and individual conscience: Protecting the informed consent process from impermissible bias

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-25

  Chervenak, Frank A ^a   McCullough, Laurence B ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSCIENCE; ETHICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; CODES OF ETHICS; CONSCIENCE; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46449114112     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. F.A. Curlin, S. Dinner, and S. Tessler Lindau, "Of more than One Mind: Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Approaches to Morally Controversial Decisions in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare," in this issue of JCE.
2. L.B. McCullough and F.A. Chervenak, Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
3. L.B. McCullough, "The Ethical Concept of Medicine as a Profession: Its Origins in Modern Medical Ethics and Implications for Physicians," in Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development in Medical Education, ed. N. Kenny and W. Shelton (New York: Elsevier, 2006): 17-27.
4. Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association (Chicago: AMA, 1847).
5. McCullugh, "The Ethical Concept of Medicine as a Profession," see note 3 above.