New Clinical Powers, New Ethical Questions

New Clinical Powers, New Ethical QuestionsIn putting together an issue of a medical ethics journal, there are two starting points from which one can work: ethical principles and clinical situations.In the first approach, one chooses an ethical idea and then identifies clinical situations in which that principle plays a central role; those situations can be the jumping-off points for case discussions and other articles.This approach, one could posit, might be preferred by ethicists with backgrounds in philosophy or some other nonclinical field, who have a primary interest in principles and view the clinical world as a realm in which those principles are applied.An example of this approach is the August 2009 issue of Virtual Mentor on the theme of Problematizing the Principle of Autonomy: autonomy, the bioethics concept, was taken as central and its clinical implications examined from there

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