PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David Lamb
TI  - A plea for a touch of realism: reply to P Whitaker
AID  - 10.1136/jme.16.3.134
DP  - 1990 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 134--135
VI  - 16
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/3/134.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/3/134.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1990 Sep 01; 16
AB  - This reply to P Whitaker's `Resource allocation: a plea for a touch of realism' acknowledges that health-care ethics should be relevant to events in the real world, but questions the extent to which philosophical inquiry should be confined to parameters determined by existing sociopolitical forces. The reading of the daily paper is the morning prayer of the realist.