... medical technologies to dehumanize treatment in ways that could be redressed only by limiting physician autonomy and encouraging informed decision making by patients. Although ethics specialists have argued over patient-rights for two decades, the situation hasn't changed materially, as evidenced by a Journal of the American Medical Association report in November 1995. The article recounted the four-year effort ... , plants, mountains, ecosystems, and the planet. The "World Charter for Nature," adopted by the United Nations in 1982 (a third of a century after adoption of its Universal D...

• Word Count: 6015
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... medical technologies to dehumanize treatment in ways that could be redressed only by limiting physician autonomy and encouraging informed decision making by patients. Although ethics specialists have argued over patient-rights for two decades, the situation hasn't changed materially, as evidenced by a Journal of the American Medical Association report in November 1995. The article recounted the four-year effort ... , plants, mountains, ecosystems, and the planet. The "World Charter for Nature," adopted by the United Nations in 1982 (a third of a century after adoption of its Universal D...

• Word Count: 6015
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate