Title: Philosophical Foundations of Catholic Medical Morals
Abstract: Biomedical ethics constitutes one of the many kinds of applied normative ethics, as do economic ethics, political ethics, or peace ethics. In discrimination between such kinds of ethics, one can hardly proceed from the rules of a logical division (divisio logica), and so it is to be expected from the start that they will partially overlap. Political ethics may have among its topics segments of biomedical ethics, possibly under the rubric “health politics”. There can, however, be hardly any doubt about where the philosophical foundation of biomedical ethics is to be found: namely, in the foundation of every kind of applied ethics, that is, in general normative ethics. What T. Beauchamp and J. Childress discuss in their book, Principles of Biomedical Ethics[3], for example, is chiefly general normative ethics in the tradition of W. Frankena[9] or R. Brandt[4].
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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