title: Arguments at cross-purposes: moral epistemology and medical ethics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Humanities and Applied Social Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. m.loughlin@mmu.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loughlin
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D001675:Bioethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D019359:Knowledge; D009014:Morals; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012106:Research