Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Difference Between Medical Ethics and Bioethics

The Difference Between Medical Ethics and Bioethics » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: "Traditional medical ethics focuses on the physician’s duty to the individual patient, whose life and welfare are always sacrosanct. The focus of bioethics is fundamentally utilitarian, centered, like other utilitarian disciplines, around maximizing total human happiness."

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