ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2016
Measuring 'virtue' in medicine.
Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and Validation of a Case-Based Survey Assessing Ethical Decision-Making in Prehospital Resuscitation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Virtue and care ethics & humanism in medical education: a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- The fundamental role of storytelling and practical wisdom in facilitating the ethics education of junior doctors.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2021Article
- Postgraduate ethics training programs: a systematic scoping review.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Moral reasoning among Dutch community pharmacists: testing the applicability of the Australian Professional Ethics in Pharmacy test.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2019Article
- Virtue in Medical Practice: An Exploratory Study.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2017Article
- Healing the system by restoring its most important virtues.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2016Article
- On the fragility of medical virtue in a neoliberal context: the case of commercial conflicts of interest in reproductive medicine.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2016Article
- Phronesis as an ideal in professional medical ethics: some preliminary positionings and problematics.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2015Article
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Abstract
Virtue-approaches to medical ethics are becoming ever more influential. Virtue theorists advocate redefining right or good action in medicine in terms of the character of the doctor performing the action (rather than adherence to rules or principles). In medical education, too, calls are growing to reconceive medical education as a form of character formation (rather than instruction in rules or principles). Empirical studies of doctors' ethics from a virtue-perspective, however, are few and far between. In this respect, theoretical and empirical study of medical ethics are out of alignment. In this paper, we survey the empirical study of medical ethics and find that most studies of doctors' ethics are rules- or principles-based and not virtue-based. We outline the challenges that exist for studying medical ethics empirically from a virtue-based perspective and canvas the runners and riders in the effort to find virtue-based assessments of medical ethics.
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