title: What is it to do good medical ethics? An orthodox Jewish physician and ethicist's perspective.
abstract: This article, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Medical Ethics, approaches the question 'what does it mean to do good medical ethics?' first from a general perspective and then from the personal perspective of a Jewish Orthodox physician and ethicist who tries, both at a personal clinical level and in national and sometimes international discussions and debates, to reconcile his own religious ethical values-especially the enormous value given by Jewish ethics to the preservation of human life-with the prima facie 'principlist' moral norms of contemporary secular medical ethics, especially that of respect for patients' autonomy.
authors.forename: Avraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steinberg
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007599:Judaism; D009014:Morals; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics
keywords: Ethics