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Microethics: The Ethics of Everyday Clinical Practice.
- Source :
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Hastings Center Report . Jan2015, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p11-17. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Over the past several decades, medical ethics has gained a solid foothold in medical education and is now a required course in most medical schools. Although the field of medical ethics is by nature eclectic, moral philosophy has played a dominant role in defining both the content of what is taught and the methodology for reasoning about ethical dilemmas. Most educators largely rely on the case-based method for teaching ethics, grounding the ethical reasoning in an amalgam of theories drawn from moral philosophy, including consequentialism, deontology, and principlism. In this article we hope to make a case for augmenting the focus of education in medical ethics. We propose complementing the traditional approach to medical ethics with a more embedded approach, one that has been described by others as 'microethics,' the ethics of everyday clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00930334
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Hastings Center Report
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100491649
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.413