献身祖国的医学教育事业

张才丽教授献身于祖国医学教育事业,数十年如一日,在药理学教学中做出了突出贡献。她的英语教学经验尤值得重视。此外,张教授还在临床药理学和新药评价方面多有建树。她的完美主义和永不言弃的精神,值得赞誉。     

Letter to my doctor

Considerable attention is now being given to ethical conflicts raised by such issues as the disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis, the role of the family in making medical decisions, and the withholding or withdrawing of treatment of terminally ill patients. Already complicated, these issues take on added complexity in contexts where medical professionals and patients have differing cultural beliefs and practices. Ethical dilemmas that develop in multicultural settings have been largely unaddressed. Through the analysis of a case involving the hospital admission and death of a Chinese woman with metastatic lung cancer, we examine some of these dilemmas and their effect on the patient, family, and physicians. Many issues were raised by this case regarding the relationships among ethnic background, bioethics, and medical care.     

Replies to my critics

This paper contains replies to the reviews of my book by Steven Downes, Massimo Pigliucci and Deborah Shelton & Rick Michod.