AIDS, Health, and Mental Health is the first volume to fully integrate the biological, psychological,
and social aspects of AIDS management and prevention under a coherent model-a …

THE VIGOROUS resurgence of interest in medical ethics during the past two decades has
created a large and controversial literature. Especially problematic is the application of …

The present study explores the relationship between connectedness with the intergenerational
family and women's sexual risk‐taking as a guide to the development of family‐focused …

In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation. This
oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract model …

In the last few years, a new myth has been created in Western civilization, the myth of a benign
and balanced ecosystem. Thanks to popular interest in the science of ecology, an implicit …

Psychiatrists testifying in court have been called charlatans, crooks, or clowns. Some critics
have urged that psychiatrists voluntarily absent themselves from the courtroom or be banned …

This paper reviews the current conclusions in medical ethics which have followed the 1969–1970
Medical Ethics Discontinuity, a break that challenged the Hippocratic way of thiking …

Describes applied clinical ethics, a new and specific method of identifying and working with
ethical problems for forensic psychiatrists. This method begins with the clinical situation or …

This article examines the impact of the New York court decision, Rivers v. Katz, which in June
1986 dramatically changed the state procedure for responding to involuntarily committed …

There are two critical issues in the division of bioethics into medical bioethics and
environmental bioethics, as proposed by Van Rensselaer Potter and illustrated in his figure in" …