Underpinnings of medical ethics
By: Edmond A. Murphy, James J. Butzow, Edward L. Suarez-Murias.
Contributors: Butzow, James J.; Suarez-Murias, Edward L.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Philosophy; Ethics, Medical
Description: Thus far in the development of the discipline of medical ethics, the overriding concern has been with solutions to specific problems. General discussion is hampered by lack of understanding both of the scope and methodology of medical ethics and of its scientific and philosophical basis. In Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond A. Murphy, James J. Butzow, and Edward L.

Suarez-Murias offer much-needed clarification of the purview, ontological basis, and methodology of a medical ethics that is to be comprehensive and yet readily accepted by all.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-462) and indexes.