Sleep Medicine Underrepresented in Medical Curricula: What are the Ethical Implications for Testimony and Forensic Reporting?

Keywords: criminal law, applied ethics, expertise, normative ethics, parasomnias, responsibility, sleep, testimony
Language(s): French

Abstract

In 2008, the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics dedicated an entire volume to ethical issues in sleep medicine. Texts published in the “Educating for Professionalism” and “Law, Policy, and Society” sections of this volume serve as theorical starting points to establish a correlation between lack of medical training in sleep disorders and ethical dilemmas encountered by expert witnesses during trials related to problematic automatic behaviours that occurred during REM sleep.

Published
2021-06-01
How to Cite
[1]
Barrette-Moran J. Sleep Medicine Underrepresented in Medical Curricula: What are the Ethical Implications for Testimony and Forensic Reporting?. Can. J. Bioeth. 2021;4:89-93. https://doi.org/10.7202/1077635ar.
Section
Critical commentaries