Ethical Issues in Community and Research Medicine

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Abstract
Ramsey's essay in this issue of the Journal identifies two broad areas in which serious ethical issues arise for the practice of medicine — namely, community medicine and medical research. His excellent discussion of these issues suggests that when medicine attempts to make judgments about social well-being and when its practitioners become increasingly dedicated to the advancement of science, important questions must be raised regarding the role, warrant and principles of medical practice. What tasks and what judgments accrue to physicians as physicians? What are they trained to do and what ought they to be trained to do? By what . . .

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