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Kotzee, Ben and Ignatowicz, Agnieszka (2016) Measuring ‘virtue’ in medicine. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 19 (2). pp. 149-161. doi:10.1007/s11019-015-9653-6 ISSN 1386-7423.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-015-9653-6
Abstract
Virtue-approaches to medical ethics are becoming ever more influential. Virtue theorists advocate redefining right or good action in medicine in terms of the character of the doctor performing the action (rather than adherence to rules or principles). In medical education, too, calls are growing to reconceive medical education as a form of character formation (rather than instruction in rules or principles). Empirical studies of doctors’ ethics from a virtue-perspective, however, are few and far between. In this respect, theoretical and empirical study of medical ethics are out of alignment. In this paper, we survey the empirical study of medical ethics and find that most studies of doctors’ ethics are rules- or principles-based and not virtue-based. We outline the challenges that exist for studying medical ethics empirically from a virtue-based perspective and canvas the runners and riders in the effort to find virtue-based assessments of medical ethics.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical ethics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1386-7423 | ||||||
| Official Date: | June 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 149-161 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11019-015-9653-6 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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