The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism

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 to the particular issues that arise in medical practice. Instead, Rhodes argues that medicine's distinctive ethics should be explained in terms of the trust that society allows to the profession. Trust is the core and starting point of Rhodes' moral framework, which states that the most basic duty of doctors is to "seek trust and be trustworthy."

Building from this foundation, Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession, and demonstrates how her view of these duties is largely consistent with the codes of medical ethics of medical societies around the world. She then explains why it is critical for physicians to develop

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Rhodes, Rosamond

ISBN:

978-0-19-085990-9

Specialty:

• Medical Education
• Personal Training
• Medical Law
• Ethics & Other Humanities

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

432

Publication Year:

2020

Doody Core Title Score:

• 2.4 (Medical Ethics)

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