| dc.creator | McCarrick, Pat Milmoe | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-18T19:15:04Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-18T19:15:04Z | en |
| dc.date.created | 1992-09 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-09 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10822/556885 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | (Literature about hospital ethics committees has grown enormously since Scope Note 3 first appeared. This
update provides new information about resources and documents now available while continuing include
important earlier sources.)
Hospital ethics committees have taken hold in the United States increasingly since 1983,
when the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and
Biomedical and Behavioral Research encouraged their creation in its report, DECIDING
TO FOREGO LIFE- SUSTAINING TREATMENT (III, 1983, p. 5). | en |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Bioethics Research Library, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University | en |
| dc.subject | Ethics Committees/Consultation | en |
| dc.title | Ethics Committees in Hospitals | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
