Whilst there has been considerable debate about the fit between moral theory and moral
reasoning in everyday life, the way in which moral problems are defined has rarely been …

Much of the bioethical literature addresses the problems of tertiary medicine, with little
attention to the daily concerns of general practitioners (GPs). The present review assesses …

Biomedical ethics focuses on moral judgments applied to the delivery of health care. In this
worktext, we have two goals:(1) improving your sensitivity to ethical issues in health care …

principles. A second solution to this problem is to develop a scale for weighing the
significance of the conflicting principles in a given case and for concluding which action …

As medical ethics has evolved over the past several decades, it has come to be regarded as
a domain of applied ethics, that is, the application of a rationally based, philosophical theory …

I will begin by presenting some doubts about what might be called the" received view" of the
role of the moral expert as a health care consultant. Then I will review the literature on moral …

What grounds and justifies conclusions in medical ethics? Is the source external or internal
to medicine? Thee influential types of answer have appeared in recent literature: an internal …

When clinical ethics committee members discuss a complex ethical dilemma, what use do
they have for normative ethical theories? Members without training in ethical theory may still …

Focusing on an area of growing concern amongst academics and clinicions, and combining
analysis with qualitative interview data, this text provides a thorough study of the ethical …

Despite the dramatic increase over recent years in the research and teaching of medical
ethics, there exists no theoretical framework within which to conceptualize ethical problems …