ArticleJournal of medical ethics2002
Supererogation and altruism: a comment.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Becoming the 'good doctor': medical students' views on altruism and professional identity.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2018Article
- [New insights into the neuroscience of human altruism].Der Nervenarzt · 2016Review
- How virtue ethics informs medical professionalism.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2012Article
- Resilience among doctors who work in challenging areas: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011Article
- Supererogation in clinical research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2008Article
- The altruistic act of asking.Journal of medical ethics · 2003Article
- How Should Therapists Treat Patients who are so Altruistic They Regularly Harm Themselves for the Sake of Others?Innovations in clinical neuroscienceReview
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Abstract
Supererogation can be distinguished from altruism, in that the former is located in the category of duty but exceeds the strict requirements of duty, whereas altruism belongs to a different moral category from duty. It follows that doctors do not act altruistically in their professional roles. Individual doctors may sometimes show supererogation, but supererogation is not a necessary feature of the medical profession. The aim of medicine is to act in the best interests of patients. This aim involves neither supererogation nor even the moral quality of beneficence. It is simply a job description. Morality enters medicine through the quality of the individual doctor's work, not by the definition of that work.
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