Developing and implementing health care ethics and law

Ethics and law in health care (medicine, ethics and law), is a seamless web in many senses. The disciplines that are needed to address adequately issues in this area, must be handled within a structure that allows for their fruitful interaction, and the provision of crucial insights and responses. We have called this structure transdisciplinarity. Students and practitioners must have sufficient knowledge to be able to recognise ethical dilemmas, and to know when they need assistance in dealing with these. Appropriate structures need to be established to provide such assistance. What these will be, will depend upon the resources (human and other), that are available, and the "health care culture" within which the ethical issues arise