Responses
Clinical ethics
“I can put the medicine in his soup, Doctor!”
Compose a Response to This Article
Other responses
Jump to comment:
- Published on: 31 May 2005
- Published on: 31 May 2005Clinical medicine and biomedical ethics need virtuesShow More
Dear Editor,
The four principles of principlism in bioethics are vices.[1] Clinical medicine and biomedical ethics need virtues. The conflict between principles of autonomy and beneficence/non maleficence like in the case of covert medication of Wong et al. [2] teaches that practice of medicine and medical ethics cannot be based on principles and guidelines, but on the virtues and therefore on virtues’ ethics....
Conflict of Interest:
None declared.
Other content recommended for you
- Bioethics in a clinic for women with psychosis
- Informed consent in neurosurgery—translating ethical theory into action
- Covert medication and patient identity: placing the ethical analysis in a worldwide context
- The secret art of managing healthcare expenses: investigating implicit rationing and autonomy in public healthcare systems
- Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: who should decide?
- Covert administration of medication in food: a worthwhile moral gamble?
- The impossibility of informed consent?
- Dignifying death and the morality of elective ventilation
- Op GRITROCK ethics; the way of things to come?
- Good clinical practice and informed consent are inseparable