The physician as moral arbiter

Samuel Gorovitz

pp. 23-31

in: William B. Bondeson, Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker, Joseph M. White Jr (eds), New knowledge in the biomedical sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1982

Abstrakt

When asked to comment about the physician as moral arbiter, I thought it useful to begin by considering just what a moral arbiter would be. To speak of someone as a moral arbiter, or to speak of some group as functioning in that role, is to say that there is arbitration and that it concerns moral matters.