title: Reviving a distinctive medical ethic.
abstract: Our culture is well on its way to reducing medical ethics to legal requirements, general citizen ethics, or personal values. A distinctive ethic for medicine provides critical distance and moral meaning for the profession and an enriched societal ethic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Churchill
mesh_terms: D032781:Codes of Ethics; D003242:Conscience; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D028781:Ethical Relativism; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D008678:Metaphysics; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009014:Morals; D012945:Social Values; D028722:Virtues