title: Medical ethics in Texas: concepts, issues, and resources.
abstract: Ethical issues pervade medicine, and no practicing physician can avoid them. The physician must be able to recognize ethical issues in his practice, analyze them critically, and resolve them properly. Because these issues will arise even more frequently and become even more complex in the 1990s than before, Texas Medicine is devoting the Journal sections in its January and February editions to ethical issues in medical practice. This opening article outlines the factors exacerbating medical ethics issues in recent decades, describes the medical ethics teaching and research programs in Texas, and introduces the other articles in the series.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Perkins
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education; D013781:Texas