Health charities, unethical research and organizational integrity.
Organizations, particularly Catholic hospitals, schools and social service agencies, should re-examine their relationships to health and medical charities promoting unethical research such as human embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. Part 6 of the Ethical and Religious Directives provides a helpful framework for ethical analysis and action.
Brehany
John
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Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City, IA, USA.
D026688:Bioethical Issues; D002410:Catholicism; D002608:Charities / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000941:ethics; D028661:Complicity; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics*; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D013234:Stem Cells