TY  - BOOK
AU  - Veatch,Robert M.
TI  - Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics: the Points of Conflict
SN  - 9781589019478
AV  - R724 .H577 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Hippocrates.
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Ethics, Medical
KW  - Hippocratic Oath
KW  - Religion and Medicine
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: the Hippocratic problem --; The Hippocratic oath and the ethic of hippocratism --; The Hippocratic tradition: a sporadic retreat --; The cacophony of codes in medical schools and professional associations --; The limits of professionally generated ethics --; Religious medical ethics: revealed and natural alternatives --; Secular ethics and professional ethics --; Fallibilism and the convergence hypothesis; 2; b
N2  - Where should physicians get their ethics? Professional codes such as the Hippocratic Oath claim moral authority for those in a particular field, yet according to medical ethicist Robert Veatch, these codes have little or nothing to do with how members of a guild should understand morality or make ethical decisions. While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, Veatch contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession. What, then, should serve as a born
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