• Relaciones médico-paciente: un estudio empírico
    with Robert Hall, Octavio Bucio, Francisco Franco, and José Pérez
    Medicina y Ética 18 315-336. 2007.
    Este estudio de relaciones médico-paciente en Mexico involucró entrevistas realizadas a 1700 pacientes inmediatamente de.\pués de salir de su consulta clínica. Se llevó a cabo entre los años 2004-05 en León, More ha, Guanajuato y en Charleston, West Virginia, USA. Los propósitos fueron: 1) establecer un base de datos como punto de referencia para investigaciones futuras en instituciones del cuidado de la salud con referencia a la comunicación médico-paciente, a la satisfacción de los pacientes y…Read more
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    The Development of Bioethics in Mexico
    with Victoria Navarrete de Olivares and Kenneth V. Iserson
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8 (3): 382-385. 1999.
    As in other countries, medical ethics in Mexico has rescued the world of philosophical ethics from oblivion. The needs of clinical medicine gave birth to Mexican bioethics. After the growth of scientific and technologic subjects in medical schools, the humanities, such as medical history, deontology, and medical philosophy, were replaced by such core subjects as radiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Since the 1950s, graduates from Mexican medical schools have not been exposed to any courses…Read more
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    Jehovah's Witnesses and Medical Practice in Mexico: Religious Freedom, Parens Patriae, and the Right to Life
    with Carlos Aldana-Valenzuela and Kenneth V. Iserson
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 (1): 47-52. 2001.
    The influx of new groups into society, such as recently established religious groups whose practices differ from societal norms, may disturb relatively stable communities. This instability is exacerbated if these practices contravene long-held fundamental societal tenets, such as the protection of children. This situation now exists in Mexico, where the country's traditional Catholic and secular values clash with those of a religion introduced from the United States, Jehovah's Witnesses. The foc…Read more