The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism

by Rosamond Rhodes

Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979. Rosamond Rhodes challenges this dominant view by presenting an original and novel account of the ethics of medicine, one deeply rooted in the actual experience of medical professionals. She argues that common morality accounts of medical ethics are unsuitable for the profession, and inadequate for responding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190859903
• ISBN13: 9780190859909
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"