Abstract. Ethics can look back on an impressive renaissance. After the great political projects for emancipation had lost their luster in the seventies of the last century and new biomedical ...

Abstract. Presentation of two examples of medicalization in gynecology (hormonal contraception and preventive oocyte preservation (social freezing)) and discussion of possible ethical questions for women involved.

Abstract. Children are not just small adults, neither physiologically nor ethically. Ethical decisions concerning and ...

Abstract. Actual and future challenges in critical care medicine among others include changes in the demographic structure of Western societies leading to a growing number of aged and very old ...

Abstract. During the last 40 years, the society changed, the patient’s ...

Abstract. Ethics support structures – such as ethics committees or ethics forums according to the foundation Dialog Ethic – aim to develop and cultivate a culture of ongoing conscious ethical reflection in a hospital on current and future challenges ...

Abstract. The mentally ill are at a high risk of also becoming physically ill. Vice versa, life-threatening physical illnesses may ...

Abstract. Due to associated physiological and psychosocial changes, persons with a spinal cord injury have special needs during their acute care, their rehabilitation ...

Abstract. Dealing with geriatric hospital patients, who are mostly of an advanced age and taking into consideration their specific characteristics and needs, makes high ...

Abstract. Clinical ethics is embedded in the change processes of the clinics as part of the health care system and the development of the society as a whole. As the normative frame they shape the moral understanding of the clinic as a business or an ...

Abstract. Expert knowledge, empathic conversations with patients, and critical discussions about medical options with colleagues are the basis of ethicality, according to abdominal surgeon Bernhard Egger. Economic ...

Abstract. Ethics not only teaches us to critically think about our actions and core values, but also systematic and conclusive thinking, according to Christoph A. Meier, medical director at the Universitätsspital Basel. ...

Abstract. Because mental disorders affect people as a whole, including in acute phases their judgement, it is important for the medical team to encourage the patient’s self-determination, according to ...