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Virtues: A New Approach In Medical Ethics
Tolga Güven*, Nermin Ersoy**
* Arş.Gör.Dr., Kocaeli Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Tıp Tarihi ve Deontoloji AD,** Doç.Dr., Kocaeli Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Tıp Tarihi ve Deontoloji AD, KOCAELİ
Being one of the oldest theories in ethics, the concept of virtues is finding new ground as an alternative or complementary to the principle based approach to professional ethics. The idea of constructing the medicine as a moral community and basing medical practice on virtues as trust, compassion, prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, integrity is put forward especially by Pellegrino and Thomasma. Since then, the questions of what kind of virtues could contribute to the definition and achievement of good medical practice, or what kind of conflicts they could cause have been discussed in details. For this reason, we, have aimed to describe this new approach and start a multi disciplinary discussion in our country by examining the definition of virtue and what role it has in medical practice.Keywords: The virtues in medicine, virtues in ethics,
virtuous doctorTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2000, 8:51-59
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