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A Doctor's Conscience:. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 112
Physicians and patients face important ethical
conundrums in their joint pursuit of health. When
there is no more medical evidence to gather, a
physician's decision is more ethical than medical.
How best to attain health is the result of an often
complex moral deliberation considering seemingly
myriad competing normative values including:
autonomy, beneficence, nonmalficence, justice,
veracity, privacy, confidentiality, and fidelity.
Achieving balance among these values is a result of
conventional or reflective moral deliberation
motivated by a sense of duty or the best action to
achieve the good aim of medicine: health.
Using real case examples, A Doctor’s Conscience
examines ethical theories of deontology, teleology,
internal and external morality as applied in
conventional and reflective moral methods towards
equilibrium among these values. A practical model
for medical morality is established bringing
together the best features of each theory
accommodating value pluralism and guiding physicians
towards making ethically sound decisions in their
clinical practice.
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