MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Syphilis, Congenital Syphilis, Whistleblower
24 Feb 2020
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Ethics: an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behaviours. Medical ethics: ethics of the physician patient relationship: combination of medicine. Law and philosophy: typically controversial topics in medicine, brought about by advances in biology and medicine, bioethics. Bioethics: demi-discipline, collect a plethora of facts, listen to each other and other advisors, through recommendations, move issue being debating towards closure, public disclosure uses reports and publications as part f discussion, including laws, legislation, policies, professional societies. The birth of bioethics: physicians behaviour (medical ethics) with patients has been around since. Hippocrates 460bc-370bc: between 1962 and 1976 something changed. Seattle artifical kidney program 1962: very controversial debate involving life-savong medical technology, problem with rationing of tachnologies, congree wanted everyone to receive, at time no one to debate/contribute to public deliberation, demi-discipline of bioethics had not yet emerged. In hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks: study and record the natural history of syphilis.
