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Commentary: In Search of Medical Ethics and Its Foundation with Rosamond Rhodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

TUIJA TAKALA  and
MATTI HÄYRY
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In her thorough and thoughtful contribution to the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics titled “Medical Ethics: Common or Uncommon Morality” Rosamond Rhodes argues that contrary to American mainstream bioethics, medical ethics is not, and should not be, based on common morality, but rather, that the medical profession requires its own distinctive morality.1 She goes on to list sixteen duties that, according to her, form the core of medical ethics proper.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 429 - 436
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Acknowledgement: The authors thank the Academy of Finland (project SA 307467 “Bioeconomy and Justice”) and the Finnish Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry (projects “The role of Justice in Decision Making Concerning Bioeconomy” and “A Just Management Model for Systemic and Sustainable Shift Towards Bioeconomy”) for their financial support.

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30. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 408.

31. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 416.

32. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 406.

33. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 405.

34. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 415.

35. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 413–14.

36. See note 1, Rhodes 2020, at 413. Italics added.

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