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Can Research and Care Be Ethically Integrated?
Author(s) -
LARGENT EMILY A.,
JOFFE STEVEN,
MILLER FRANKLIN G.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/j.1552-146x.2011.tb00123.x
Subject(s) - medical care , engineering ethics , medical ethics , boundary (topology) , medline , psychology , medicine , management science , nursing , political science , law , psychiatry , economics , engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Medical ethics assumes a clear boundary between clinical research and clinical medicine: one produces knowledge for the benefit of future patients, while the other provides optimal care to individuals right now. It also assumes that the two cannot be integrated without sacrificing the needs of the current patient to those of future patients. But integration could allow us to provide better care to everyone, now and in the future.