Volume 20 Supplement 2
Publication of this supplement is funded by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. Supplement Editors were not involved in the review process on any article that they co-authored. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no other competing interests.
Edited by Jean-Pierre Unger, Claudio Schuftan and Alicia Stolkiner.
Revisiting professionalism, both as a medical ideal and educational topic, this paper asks whether, in the rise of artificial intelligence, healthcare commoditisation and environmental challenges, a rationale ...
Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives:
Since some form of dual clinical/public health practice is desirable, this paper explains why their ethics should be combined to influence medical practice and explores a way to achieve that.
Professional knowledge aims at improving practice. It reduces uncertainty in decision-making, improves effectiveness in action and relevance in evaluation, stimulates reflexivity, and subjects practice to ethi...
Since the 1980s, markets have turned increasingly to intangible goods – healthcare, education, the arts, and justice. Over 40 years, the authors investigated healthcare commoditisation to produce policy knowle...
Ethical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical a...
