Special Supplement: Ethical & Policy Issues in Rehabilitation Medicine

Abstract

The field of medical rehabilitation is relatively new, a product in great part of the rapid developments in medical science during and after the Second World War. Until recently, the ethical problems of this new field were neglected. There seemed to be more pressing concerns as rehabilitation medicine struggled to establish itself, somtimes in the face of considerable skepticism or hostility. There also seemed no pressing moral questions of the kind and intensity to be encountered, say, in high technology acute care medicine or genetic engineering. With eyes focused on the dramatic and wrenching problems, those in biomedical ethics could and did easily overlook the quiet, less obtrusive, issues of rehabilitation. Comments © The Hastings Center. Reprinted by permission. This article originally appeared in the Hastings Center Report, Volume 17, Issue 4, August 1987, pages 1-20. Publisher URL: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/ publications/hcr/hcr.asp This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/bioethics_papers/3 Special Supplement: Ethical & Policy Issues in Rehabilitation Medicine Arthur L. Caplan; Daniel Callahan; Janet Haas The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 17, No. 4. (Aug. Sep., 1987), pp. 1-20. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-0334%28198708%2F09%2917%3A4%3C1%3ASSE%26PI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G The Hastings Center Report is currently published by The Hastings Center. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/hastings.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. http://www.jstor.org Thu Mar 8 09:54:45 2007