Philosophical starting points of medical ethics

Theories of Medical Ethics: the Philosophical Structure

Medical economics and medical ethics: points of conflict and reconciliation.

I refer to the transformation of the valid economic necessity to contain costs into an ideology a self-justifying principle that threatens to assume quasi-moral stature. One consequence is the self-righteous pursuit of economic goals that may obscure our obligations to the sick. Another is the commercialization of the healing relationship by the growing pressure to use competition as a cost con...

Philosophical medical ethics. Conclusion: the Arthur case revisited.

Throughout his British Medical Journal series of 25 articles on medical ethics, Gillon frequently used the Arthur case (which involved a British physician who faced criminal charges for allowing a Down's syndrome newborn to die) to illustrate moral arguments concerning approaches to clinical dilemmas. He returns to the Arthur case in this essay on the obligations of physicians toward all patien...

Problems of medical ethics from the view points of the specialist physicians in Qom

Background and Objectives: Medical ethics has a long history worldwide; although it is a new scientific discipline. Also, it is not just for a specific single group or discipline in a treatment team; it is the entire medical community who benefits from it. Given the importance of this issue, this study examined the viewpoints of the specialist physicians in Qom province on the most common issue...

Critical Notice Rational Starting Points

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...