Emerging issues in medical ethics.

Br J Psychiatry Suppl

Dept of Psychiatry, Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, MA 02111.

Published: May 1991

Ethical principles are influenced by personal values and beliefs, and by societal context. They are not immutable. In medicine, as new technologies have developed and changes in health-care delivery have resulted, historically held views about the responsibilities, obligations and relationships between health-care providers and patients have been challenged.

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