Empirical medical ethics.

The Science behind the Art: Empirical Research on Medical Ethics

The last of seven images from the series The Seven Ages of a Physician. The series depicts the life progression of a doctor from birth to first encounter with suffering, through medical training, professional experience, service to country during war, and research to further knowledge. In this final painting in the series, the doctor 's heritage is that of passing along to the next generation h...

Virtuous acts as practical medical ethics: an empirical study.

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine the nature, scope and significance of virtues in the biographies of medical practitioners and to determine what kind of virtues are at play in their ethical behaviour and reflection. METHODS A case study involving 19 medical practitioners associated with the Sydney Medical School, using semi-structured narrative interviews. Narrative data were analyse...

Empirical research in medical ethics: How conceptual accounts on normative-empirical collaboration may improve research practice

BACKGROUND The methodology of medical ethics during the last few decades has shifted from a predominant use of normative-philosophical analyses to an increasing involvement of empirical methods. The articles which have been published in the course of this so-called 'empirical turn' can be divided into conceptual accounts of empirical-normative collaboration and studies which use socio-empirical...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Medical Ethics

IT is customary at the beginning of this address to refer to the changes which have taken place in the Staff of the Hospital during the year which has elapsed since the last Annual Oration. WVe have first to record with regret the death of a former member of our Dental Staff, Mr. WVilliam Muirhead Hunter, which took place on 26th MIay of tllis Nyear. Mr. Hunter was a native of Stranraer who qua...