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  • Title: Bioethics education: diversity and critique.
    Author: McCullough LB, Jonsen AR.
    Journal: J Med Philos; 1991 Feb; 16(1):1-4. PubMed ID: 2010717.
    Abstract:
    McCullough and Jonsen introduce six papers in this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy concerning bioethics education. The authors present their conception of bioethics and then relate it to its implications for bioethical instruction in the health professions. Alisa Carse provides a critique of the justice orientation or principle-based approach. John Arras discusses casuistry. Stephen Wear argues that bioethics must move beyond ethical reflection to action with "real", tough cases that are analyzed beyond ethical content to actual patient care. Richard Wright identifies components that are common to all bioethics decision making and teaching irrespective of the particular profession. Lachlan Forrow, Robert Arnold, and Joel Frader focus on developing professional competence in clinical ethics during residency training. Albert Jonsen proposes that the early bioethics movement was influenced by absolutist "American moralism" based on Calvinistic and Jansenistic thought whose remnants are buried beneath the unreflective moral relativism of contemporary American students.
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