The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism by Rosamond Rhodes [Book Review]

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2):174-178 (2022)
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Abstract

Rosamond Rhodes has written a welcome, clear, and expansive yet precise book that challenges the hegemonic influence of principlism in biomedical ethics and presents a viable alternative. At the outset, Rhodes critiques the idea of common morality underpinning the four principles from Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics and ten rules from Bernard Gert, Charles Culver, and K. Danner Clouser in Bioethics: A Systematic Approach. Rhodes not only argues for why medicine is unlike everyday practices and requires a unique ethics but also offers a positive program to meet medicine's "uncommon morality."This "uncommon morality" gives rise to sixteen duties that guide medical practice. Each...

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