The Ethics in Medicine website is an educational resource designed for clinicians in training. The website is hosted and maintained by the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The topics, cases, and resources covered here are intended to be used as a resource by the UWSOM community and to supplement or support other teaching and learning throughout the curriculum. It is not designed to answer patient-specific clinical, professional, legal, or ethical questions.
NOTE: The UW Dept. of Bioethics & Humanities is in the process of updating all Ethics in Medicine articles for attentiveness to the issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine
BIOETHICS TOPICS
- Advance Care Planning & Advance Directives
- Breaking Bad News
- Clinical Ethics and Law
- Complementary Medicine
- Confidentiality
- Cross-Cultural Issues and Diverse Beliefs
- Difficult Patient Encounters
- Do Not Resuscitate during Anesthesia and Urgent Procedures
- Do Not Resuscitate Orders
- End-of-Life Issues
- Ethics Committees and Consultation
- Futility
- Genetics
- HIV and AIDS
- Informed Consent
- Interdisciplinary Team Issues
- Maternal / Fetal Conflict
- Mistakes
- Neonatal ICU Issues
- Pandemics
- Parental Decision Making
- Personal Beliefs
- Physician Aid-in-Dying
- Physician-Patient Relationship
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Professionalism
- Public Health Ethics
- Research Ethics
- Resource Allocation
- Spirituality and Medicine
- Student Issues
- Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Treatment Refusal
- Truth-telling and Withholding Information