Underpinnings of Medical Ethics

emeritus professor of medicine and former head of medical genetics at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; a retired research biochemist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging; and a psychiatrist in private practice who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Their background is therefore medical rather than philosophical, and they claim in their preface that their "exclusive interest in the book is with safeguarding the supply of Medical knowledge as raw material to be delivered to the Medical ethicist" and that their goal is "to explore some of the major areas of confusion that exist in the no-man's-land between scholarly clinical Medicine and the professional ethicist, typically nurtured in Philosophy". They present their project with