Institute for Medical Ethics faces up to flood of dilemmas

摘要

After a long career in research and teaching in ethics at Harvard Medical School, Dr Emanuel came to the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1996 as vice president of the ethics standards division. She began working on a framework for creating the Institute for Medical Ethics as a place to design practical, accessible methods for incorporating ethics into—or back into—medical professionalism. "The AMA allows us to be advocates for professionalism," said Dr Emanuel. "Ethics provide a moral anchor for physicians," she added, "without them, physicians become unanchored."