title: Arboriculture in clinical ethics: using philosophical critical appraisal to clear away underbrush in ethical analysis and argument.
abstract: This paper introduces the 2011 number of the Journal on Clinical Ethics. Philosophical critical appraisal is essential for the success of philosophical analysis and argument in clinical ethics. To clear away conceptual underbrush, papers in this Clinical Ethics number of the Journal address genetic engineering, conscience-based objections to forms of health care, placebos, and preventing exploitation of patients to be recruited to become research subjects.
authors.affiliation: Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza MS 420, Houston, TX 77030, USA. mccullou@bcm.edu
authors.forename: Laurence B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: McCullough
mesh_terms: D003242:Conscience; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010919:Placebos
chemical_list: D010919:Placebos