Daily Archives: 28/09/2016
List of medical ethics cases
Some cases have been remarkable for starting broad discussion and for setting precedent in medical ethics. Contents Research Edit Research case country location year summary Psychosurgery 1880s Psychosurgery (also called neurosurgery for mental disorder) has a long history. During the 1960s and 1970s, it became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in […]
DOCTORS TRIAL
States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes of German doctors that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany, after the end of World War II. These trials were held before US military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but […]
Bullying in medicine
This article primarily concerns bullying involving physicians. For bullying involving nurses, see Bullying in nursing. Bullying in the medical profession is common, particularly of student or trainee physicians. It is thought that this is at least in part an outcome of conservative traditional hierarchical structures and teaching methods in the medical profession which may result […]
Anti-psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is the view that psychiatric treatments are often more damaging than helpful to patients, and a movement opposing such treatments for almost two centuries. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process.[1][2] Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to […]










