There Is No Moral Authority in Medicine: Response to Cowdin and Tuohey
Creator
Crosby, John F.
Bibliographic Citation
Christian Bioethics. 1998 Apr; 4(1): 63-82.
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 the
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1998-04Collections
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