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Alan Cribb is one of my favourite medical ethicists, not only because I count him as one of my friends, but primarily because he writes wonderfully nuanced and insightful papers.In this issue we are pleased to publish a paper by Alan asking whether there is a theory-practice gap in medical ethics, a...
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BMJ Publ.
2010
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 193 |
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| Summary: | Alan Cribb is one of my favourite medical ethicists, not only because I count him as one of my friends, but primarily because he writes wonderfully nuanced and insightful papers.In this issue we are pleased to publish a paper by Alan asking whether there is a theory-practice gap in medical ethics, and, if so, how best to bridge it (see page 207). Does medical ethics need a ‘translational ethics’ movement along the lines of the translational medicine movement that tries to bridge the research-therapy gap?Alan argues that there is a theory-practice gap in medical ethics, but that such a gap is probably inevitable for, as he notes: ‘Doing scholarship is doing something different from policy or practice’. And scholarship and policy-making have different ends, goals and objectives.We could attempt to bridge this gap through an ‘Enlightenment model’ where medical ethics informs policy-making in different ways, but this model has its … |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/jme.2010.036681 |