Moral issues and motivations in medical philanthropy
By: by Byron C. Bangert
Contributors: Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
Publisher: Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medicine -- Practice -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medicine -- Vocational guidance -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medicine -- Research; Humanitarianism
Notes: "November 2005."

"This ethnographic study of fifteen physicians, ten medical students, and ten pre-medical students focuses on the self-reported motivations of these individuals for engaging in medically-related charitable or philantrhropic activity, and the moral issues arising from such activity. The study is based on information gleaned from personal, structured interviews with each of the subjects..."--p. iv

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Table of contents: Acknowledgments; Abstract; Introduction; Why the practice of medicine? What kinds of doctors?; The range and nature of medical philanthropy; What constitutes medical philanthrophy?; Motivations for philanthropic service; What kinds of motivations?; Moral issues occasioned by philanthropic medical work: Doing good, Need for systemic changes, Relational issues, The value of group practice; The personal costs of medical philanthrophy; Making a case, and a greater place, for medical philanthropy; Appendix A; Appendix B. Interview questions; Appendix C. Indiana University - Bloomington, Informed consent statement