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Microethics: The Ethics of Everyday Clinical Practice
Author(s) -
Truog Robert D.,
Brown Stephen D.,
Browning David,
Hundert Edward M.,
Rider Elizabeth A.,
Bell Sigall K.,
Meyer Elaine C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.413
Subject(s) - consequentialism , deontological ethics , normative ethics , medical ethics , engineering ethics , applied ethics , information ethics , ethics of technology , nursing ethics , military medical ethics , sociology , meta ethics , ethical theory , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law , engineering
Over the past several decades, medical ethics has gained a solid foothold in medical education and is now a required course in most medical schools. Although the field of medical ethics is by nature eclectic, moral philosophy has played a dominant role in defining both the content of what is taught and the methodology for reasoning about ethical dilemmas. Most educators largely rely on the case‐based method for teaching ethics, grounding the ethical reasoning in an amalgam of theories drawn from moral philosophy, including consequentialism, deontology, and principlism . In this article we hope to make a case for augmenting the focus of education in medical ethics. We propose complementing the traditional approach to medical ethics with a more embedded approach, one that has been described by others as “microethics,” the ethics of everyday clinical practice .