Underpinnings of medical ethics

the long version

Thus far in the development of the discipline of medical ethics, the overriding concern has been with solutions to specific problems. General discussion is hampered by lack of understanding both of the scope and methodology of medical ethics and of its scientific and philosophical basis. In Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond A. Murphy, James J. Butzow, and Edward L. Suarez-Murias offer much-needed clarification of the purview, ontological basis, and methodology of a medical ethics that is to be comprehensive and yet readily accepted by all.