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Chapter 69 - Ethical Issues and Conflict in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics

from Section 8 - Public Health Issues in Obstetrics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2021

By
Pierre Mallia
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

George E. Moore, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy, defines ethics as what we ought and ought not to do. It is a deliberation and although feelings such as empathy come into most decision, ethics is not only a feeling but has to be supported by reason. In fact, saying that ethics is only a feeling or an intuition, not needing any reason, has to be supported by argument itself, annulling the very assertion.

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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine
 , pp. 562 - 568
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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