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Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2008 33(1):1-5; doi:10.1093/jmp/jhm004
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Rethinking the Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Clinical Ethics

Laurence B. McCullough

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Address correspondence to: Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza MS420, Houston, TX 77030, USA. E-mail: mccullou{at}bcm.edu


  Abstract

The five papers in the 2008 "Clinical Ethics" number of the journal address the conceptual and empirical foundations of clinical ethics. Three articles take up the concept of professionalism in medicine, exploring its possibilities and implications. The fourth article provides a distinctive, phenomenological account of the "placebo effect," a vexing topic of surprising durability in the clinical setting. The final article, a systematic review of the qualitative literature on bedside rationing of resources, creates an empirical foundation for philosophical analysis and argument of a distinctive kind.

Keywords: clinical ethics, conceptual foundations of clinical ethics, empirical foundations of clinical ethics


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