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Doctors should be morally common: a reply to Rosamond Rhodes
Abstract
Rosamond Rhodes contends, by reference to seven examples, that medical ethics is distinctly different from non-medical ethics. Each of those examples, on proper examination, illustrates precisely the opposite contention. It is clear not only that medical ethics relies on the same principles as non-medical (and indeed non-professional) ethics, but that it should so rely. A distinctively medical ethics would be dangerous: it would divorce ethical medical decision-making from the patients whom medicine exists to serve.
- morality
- ethics
- doctors
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Contributors CF is the sole author of this article.
Competing interests None declared.
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