Divided Loyalties and Ambiguous Relationships

Toulmin, Stephen

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/263372

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http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=Divided+Loyalties+and+Ambiguous+Relationships&title=Social+Science+and+Medicine.+&volume=23&issue=8&pages=783-787&date=1986&au=Toulmin,+Stephen
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(86)90276-5
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/728301

Abstract

Using examples from occupational medicine, sports medicine, and clinical trials, Toulmin discusses two of the moral conflicts he believes are common to all professions: conflicts of obligations and divisions of loyalties. Conflicts of obligation are inherent in all medical practice, the author argues, and cannot be resolved by balancing claims, but only by choosing one obligation over another. Conflicts of loyalty result when a physician's relationships "to

Date

2015-05-05

Identifier

oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/728301
10.1016/0277-9536(86)90276-5
Social Science and Medicine. 1986; 23(8): 783-787.
0277-9536
http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=Divided+Loyalties+and+Ambiguous+Relationships&title=Social+Science+and+Medicine.+&volume=23&issue=8&pages=783-787&date=1986&au=Toulmin,+Stephen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(86)90276-5
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/728301

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Health Ethics