title: [The growing importance of ethics in medical care and research].
abstract: The integration of medical humanities into future patient care and medical research will become as importance for trust, care and health as the natural sciences were during the last 100 years. In particular, improvements of lay health literacy and responsibility, new forms of physician-nurse partnership and expert-lay interaction, also revisions of clinical research towards models of informed contract will improve trust and health on a global scale, allow for healthier and happier citizens and populations and eventually might reduce health care costs.
authors.affiliation: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. sassh@georgetown.edu
authors.forename: Hans-Martin
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Sass
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D033061:Ethics Consultation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005858:Germany; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018447:Medical Futility / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics