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Medical Ethics Law

Medical Ethics Law

Clinical ethics (focused on hospital case decisions with the aid of diverse committees and consultants), and bioethics (including general issues of reproduction, fair distribution of organs and other scarce life-saving resources, and protection of the biosphere).

Principal topics in medical ethics include: physicians' paternalistic deceptions and violations of patient confidentiality; the rights of patients or their surrogates to refuse life-sustaining treatments or request assistance in dying; drug experiments on children, demented or dying patients, and other incompetent or desperate patients; bias-free definitions of health, death, disease, and futility of treatment; removing viable organs from ...