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  • Title: Virtue ethics - an old answer to a new dilemma? Part 1. Problems with contemporary medical ethics.
    Author: Misselbrook D.
    Journal: J R Soc Med; 2015 Feb; 108(2):53-6. PubMed ID: 25721113.
    Abstract:
    The commonest practical model used in contemporary medical ethics is Principlism. Yet, while Principlism is a widely accepted consensus statement for ethics, the moral theory that underpins it faces serious challenges in its attempt to provide a coherent and accepted system of moral analysis. This inevitably challenges the stability of such a consensus statement and makes it vulnerable to attack by competitors such as preference consequentialism. This two-part paper proposes an inclusive version of virtue theory as a more grounded system of moral analysis.
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