There Is No Moral Authority in Medicine: Response to Cowdin and Tuohey
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Crosby, John F.Keywords
AbortionAutonomy
Competence
Contraception
Decision Making
Doctors
Ethics
Health
Maternal Health
Medicine
Moral Development
Morality
Physicians
Professional Autonomy
Professional Competence
Roman Catholic Ethics
Sterilization
Theology
Voluntary Sterilization
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Abstract
Central to the Cowdin-Tuohey paper is the concept of a moral authority proper to medical practitioners. Much as I agree with the authors in refusing to degrade doctors to the status of mere technicians, I argue that one does not succeed in retrieving the moral dimension of medical practice by investing doctors with moral authority. I show that none of the cases brought forth by Cowdin-Tuohey really amounts to a case of moral authority. Then I try to explain why no such cases can be found. Developing an insight that is common to all the major moral thinkers in theDate
2015-05-05Identifier
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Christian Bioethics. 1998 Apr; 4(1): 63-82.
1380-3603
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/chbi.4.1.63.6910
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/755047