Welcome! Many medical caregivers desire to maintain a personal and professional posture that is consistent with the four principles of medical ethics: Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, and Justice. The sheer scope of medicine, variety of ethical dilemmas encountered, and speed at which the medical profession advances can make it difficult to develop a logically coherent and personally satisfying ethical “code” in this regard.
Terminal Medical Ethics endeavors to add clarity by promoting civil discussion about these medical ethical issues in the context of invited presentations, small group meetings and collaboration, and recommended readings.
Ethical issues of particular interest to the Terminal Medical Ethics organization include: end-of-life care; physician-assisted suicide; elective abortion; human embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and the status of human embryos in reproductive medicine; defining human death, and the ethical procurement of human organs for transplantation; direct or indirect use of fetal human cells and/or products therefrom as medical therapeutics.