What is Medical Ethics?

  1. K. DANNER CLOUSER, Ph.D.
  1. Hershey, Pennsylvania

    Abstract

    Medical ethics does not have its own unique methods and principles. Rather, medical ethics is the enterprise of understanding the specialized facts and relationships of the medical world, to apply more precisely the familiar moral rules of everyday life. Some general implications of this view for practitioners and medical ethicists are spelled out.

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    • ▸From the Department of Humanities, College of Medicine, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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    1. Ann Intern Med May 1, 1974 vol. 80 no. 5 657-660
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