Moral Theory and Theorizing in Healthcare Ethics
Moral Theory and Theorizing in Healthcare Ethics
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医疗伦理中的道德理论和理论化
DOI:
10.1007/s10677-011-9291-x
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
1
通讯作者:
McNamee M
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作者:
McNamee M
Written nearly a quarter of a century apart, the musings of Stephen Toulmin and Glenn McGee might be seen as scholarly bookends. Back in 1982, Toulmin (1982) penned a widely cited article “How medicine saved the life of ethics”. The success or otherwise of medical ethics led McGee (2006), another leading American scholar, to write an Editorial in 2006 asking “Will bioethics take the life of philosophy?”. The papers collated for this special issue seek to address an aspect of the problematic issues Toulmin and McGee raise. They stem from the first workshop in a series of three, held in Swansea (UK), of a Research Network on “The Role of Moral Theory in Health Care Ethics”, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. The initial stimulus for the research project was caused mainly by several concerns regarding the current state of applied ethics in general, and health care ethics1 in particular: Firstly, the increasing professionalization of applied ethics, especially in the field of medical ethics, which seems to lead to naivety and carelessness about the many abstract and theoretical problems that underlie moral issues. Secondly, the question what the proper role of philosophers might be in “doing” applied ethics is far from clear. Thirdly, despite professional developments in the field (perhaps, indeed because of them) there is a lack of proper or agreed upon methods of doing applied ethics generally and healthcare ethics in particular. These issues bear down upon the more pressing and more general problem of how we may go about justifying normative claims. These issues are not peculiar to applied ethics. Rather, they relate to ethics in general. It was a core goal of the project to investigate the relations between moral theory and health care ethics. Nevertheless, in order to do
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影响因子:
1
作者:
S. Toulmin
通讯作者:
S. Toulmin
影响因子:
13.4
作者:
G. McGee
通讯作者:
G. McGee
DOI:
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发表时间:
2004
期刊:
Philosophy and Medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
G. Khushf
通讯作者:
G. Khushf
影响因子:
13.4
作者:
P. Levin;G. McGee
通讯作者:
G. McGee
影响因子:
1.3
作者:
DANIELS, N
通讯作者:
DANIELS, N