Arguments at cross-purposes: moral epistemology and medical ethics.
Different beliefs about the nature and justification of bioethics may reflect different assumptions in moral epistemology. Two alternative views (put forward by David Seedhouse and Michael H Kottow) are analysed and some speculative conclusions formed. The foundational questions raised here are by no means settled and deserve further attention.
Loughlin
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Department of Humanities and Applied Social Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. m.loughlin@mmu.ac.uk
D026688:Bioethical Issues; D001675:Bioethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D019359:Knowledge; D009014:Morals; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012106:Research