TY - JOUR T1 - CLinical ethics and clinical medicine AU - Siegler M Y1 - 1979/08/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630450056016 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 914 EP - 915 VL - 139 IS - 8 N2 - Tn this issue of the Archives, a new editorial department is introduced. It will appear occasionally and will present the views of practicing physicians on a broad range of clinical problems that force them to confront directly moral and ethical questions arising in their routine practice. The articles will be written by clinicians, and will be directed toward an audience of practicing physicians. This new section will be called CLINICAL ETHICS, reflecting the fact that, in the practice of medicine, clinical and ethical issues are deeply interdependent.THE RISE OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICSĀ  Clinical ethics, which focuses on issues that confront the physician in his daily interactions with patients, is to be contrasted with biomedical ethics (BME), which is greatly concerned with public policy issues. In the past 15 years, there has been a remarkable rise of interest in BME; it has captured the fancy of the public. The media have SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630450056016 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630450056016 ER -