Wendy E. Parmet, JD and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD
Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3):E194-199. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.194.
Religion and spirituality in medicine can help clinicians empathize with their patients, collaborate with hospital chaplains, and advance faith-based initiatives, hospital policy, and legislation.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(7):E609-612. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.609.
Stem cell research, abortion rights, competency to make medical decisions for one’s self or stand trial, the nature of mental illness—all presuppose particular views of the human person.
Medicine and medical ethics have separated themselves from confessional stances—to adapt a phrase, the separation of church and medicine has become the norm.