Pitts
Memorial Lectureship
September
14, 2001 - The Medical University of South Carolina and
the Institute of Human Values in Health Care announce plans
for the Seventh Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship
in Medical Ethics: HIV/AIDS
as an Epidemic: Ethical Issues at the 20th Anniversary.
The outstanding nationally known faculty will explore and debate
ethical and policy issues still facing us as the epidemic matures:Donald
Ainslie, Ph.D.; Ronald Bayer, Ph.D.; Charles S. Bryan, M.D.;
Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D.; David Kelley, Ph.D.; Jan Narveson,
Ph.D.; Samuel Nelson, Ph.D.; and Stephen Thomas, Ph.D. For information,
contact Robert M. Sade, M.D. or Sharon Kest, at values@musc.edu.
Register online at (http://www.values.musc.edu/lecture.htm).
Registration deadline: September 7, 2001.
Studying
Medical Communication 
By: Ellen
L. Barton, Ph.D.
May 10, 2000 - The field of
linguistics describes the ways that language is structured and the ways it is
used in different contexts. Using this qualitative and descriptive
perspective, the field of linguistics has investigated the language of medicine,
including the ways that physician-patient communication is interactive.
Related Site:
Clinical
Fellowship for Non-Clinical Professionals
The Institute
of Human Values in Health Care invites applications for its
sixth annual Interdisciplinary Fellowship. The program is designed
to provide non-clinical professionals who work in health related
fields (e.g., law, government, economics, sociology, philosophy,
journalism, religion, and history) with firsthand exposure to
and involvement with intensive inpatient and ambulatory care
of the critically ill within a major academic medical center.
For more information, including a copy of the application, visit
our web site at www.values.musc.edu.
Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Medicine
By:
Robert H. Blank, Ph.D.
September 1, 1999 -
"Interdisciplinary teaching/research is especially problematic in medical
training because medicine itself has become so segmented and specialized. As one
rotates among the units it is clear to see priorities, perspectives, and even
language change. Although there is some essential communication across
specialties, seldom does this appear to be sufficient to produce an
interdisciplinary environment, rather one set of experts getting needed
information from another set of experts."
Related Site:
New
Guidelines for Pain
By: Jason F. Arnold,
J.D., M.P.H.
August 4, 1999 - Patients
who suffer from acute or chronic pain have a right to appropriate
and effective pain relief, according to a policy document recently
adopted by the State Board of Medical Examiners of South Carolina.
The policy document, Guidelines for the Use of Controlled
Substances for the Treatment of Pain, is designed to assist
physicians in improving public access to appropriate and effective
pain relief.
Related Articles:
Related Sites:
Bioethics
Links
Pain
Intractable
Pain
Links
Assisted
Suicide
Physician
assisted suicide
Links
WEBSITE INFORMATION
Values@musc is produced and managed by
the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical
University of South Carolina
Director:
Robert M. Sade, M.D.
Associate Director :
Jason F. Arnold, J.D., M.P.H.
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