Health Law and Ethics

Health Law and Ethics

What Primary Relationships Do You See Between Legal and Ethical Issues?

Ethics and law are two separate disciplines with largely overlapping relationships and concepts. Each of these disciplines is unique and has differentiated focus and parameters. Nonetheless, overlapping is also existent between some concepts shared by both disciplines. For instance, “in ethics the concept of respect for autonomy is expressed in law as individual liberty” (Brock & Mastroianni, 2013). Under each discipline, authority and forums are prevalent; yet it is also acknowledged that law may be the ultimate resolution reaching forum, when ethical dilemmas remain unresolved. ...