Article Text
PDF
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Michael Palmer, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1999, 190 pages, £14.15 (sc).
Moral Problems in Medicine is based on Michael Palmer's earlier, well-received, book, Moral Problems. The new book retains much of the structure of the earlier volume and the majority of its philosophical component. But whereas the earlier text was a course in applied philosophy covering such topics as warfare, crime and punishment and civil disobedience in addition to topics in medical ethics such as abortion and euthanasia, Moral Problems in Medicine focuses entirely on medicine.
The text is primarily intended to be of interest to health care professionals, medical students and to those who teach them but is also aimed at the newcomer to medical ethics and would be suitable too for the general reader with an interest in the ethical issues raised by modern medicine.
Following an introductory chapter on “What …
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Reflections on learning and teaching medical ethics in UK medical schools
- Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethics
- Evaluation of research ethics committees in Turkey
- Case-based seminars in medical ethics education: how medical students define and discuss moral problems
- Teaching medical ethics to experienced staff: participants, teachers and method
- What is it to do good medical ethics? A kaleidoscope of views
- Can we accredit hospital ethics? A tentative proposal
- Principlism and communitarianism
- Why not common morality?
- Medical ethics: principles, persons, and perspectives: from controversy to conversation