Our mission is to explore values in medicine as they appear in the clinical setting, and to cultivate an interdisciplinary approach to the moral and social complexity of health care. Close scrutiny of the much-celebrated principles of Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, and Justice will expose the difficult balance of medical duty in practice, and invite broader consideration of relevant concepts in law, sociology, history, religion, and philosophy. By examining real-world cases in medical ethics, we hope to promote awareness of medicine's necessary intersections with other institutions, ideas and values, and to enrich our understanding of contemporary issues in biomedical ethics.