Mccullough Laurence B
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
J Med Philos. 2002 Feb;27(1):3-9. doi: 10.1076/jmep.27.1.3.2972.
Although the work of clinical ethics is intensely practical, it employs and presumes philosophical concepts from the central branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. This essay introduces this issue in the Journal on clinical ethics by considering how the papers and book reviews included in it illuminate four such concepts: trust, moral responsibility, the self and well-ordered societies.
尽管临床伦理学的工作极具实践性，但它运用并假定了来自哲学核心分支的哲学概念，包括形而上学、认识论、伦理学和政治哲学。本文通过思考其中收录的论文和书评如何阐明信任、道德责任、自我和有序社会这四个此类概念，来介绍《临床伦理学杂志》上的这个问题。
