PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Harris
TI  - The elimination of morality.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.21.4.220
DP  - 1995 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 220--224
VI  - 21
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/4/220.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/21/4/220.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1995 Aug 01; 21
AB  - Anne Maclean has written a book which purports to identify and then definitively to reject the claims which she perceives to be the claims of bioethics. If she is right, then the enterprise to which this journal is dedicated is misconceived and worthless. In this paper, I attempt to show why so far from being not right she is comprehensively wrong, both in her understanding of the nature of bioethics and in the specific moral claims she makes about those she terms 'bioethicists'. Since much of her book-length study is devoted to a criticism of my own work, this paper analyses the extent to which Maclean's criticisms of me, and by extension, of other bioethicists, are sustainable.