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Achieving agreement in medical ethics is particularly difficult in light of the confusion surrounding the identification of what constitutes medical ethics.1 Alasdair Maclntyre contends that this difficulty is but a characteristic of our broader culture, which has no systematic way of using such words as “ethical” and “moral” that does not already embody a particular and contentious morality ([20], p. 3). As a consequence, the conflict over how morality is to be defined is itself a moral conflict. Different and rival definitions cannot be defended apart from defending different and rival sets of moral principles.
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Agich, G.J. (1982). The Concept of Responsibility in Medicine. In: Agich, G.J. (eds) Responsibility in Health Care. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7831-7_3
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