Description: Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics : The Points of Conflict, Paperback by Veatch, Robert M., ISBN 1589019466, ISBN-13 9781589019461, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Using medicine as a lens, Veatch (medical ethics, Georgetown U.) argues that professional ethics are not morally justifiable, are morally repugnant even, and that the Hippocratic Oath in particular must be abandoned by medical professionals. Professional ethics are unable to ground their legitimacy without creating a double-standard, since moral claims on conduct are still coming from outside the professional context even when an individual is acting in their capacity as a professional. He's not claiming that a professional doesn't or can't have role-specific duties, but that these can only be grounded in a wider ethical system. To that end, he considers medical ethical prescriptions from both religious and secular ethical systems. He argues that any religious/secular source for a medical ethic must come to its knowledge through natural rather than revealed means. Veatch is arguing about wider moral epistemological issues that are shuttered by professionally generated codes of ethics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics : The Points o
Author: Veatch, Robert M.
Language: English
