People who discuss medical ethics or bioethics come to very different conclusions about the
levels of agreement in the field and the implications of consensus among health care …

This paper challenges the long-standing and widely accepted view that medical ethics is
nothing more than common morality applied to clinical matters. It argues against Tom …

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 …

Despite its authors' intentions, the four principles approach to medical ethics can become
crudely algorithmic in practice. The first section sets out the bare bones of the four principles …

This paper challenges the leading common morality accounts of medical ethics which hold
that medical ethics is nothing but the ethics of everyday life applied to today's high-tech …

In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what
makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical …

The papers in this number of the Journal originated in a session sponsored by the American
Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Medicine in 1999. The four …

In this symposium Professor Swales, a professor of medicine, argues that medical ethics
cannot be separated conceptually or practically from medical practice and training generally …

It is common to think of medical and ethical modes of thought as different in kind. In such
terms, some clinical situations are made more complicated by an additional ethical …

A number of recent publications by the philosopher David Seedhouse are discussed.
Although medicine is an eminently ethical enterprise, the technical and ethical aspects of …