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Reviving A Distinctive Medical Ethic
Author(s) -
Churchill Larry R.
Publication year - 1989
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 - 10.2307/3562740
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , environmental ethics , sociology , work ethic , medical ethics , nursing ethics , bioethics , engineering ethics , law , epistemology , political science , philosophy , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , engineering
Our culture is well on its way to reducing medical ethics to legal requirements, general citizen ethics, or personal values. A distinctive ethic for medicine provides critical distance and moral meaning for the profession and an enriched societal ethic.