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John Ladd’s paper explores two important questions: What properly constitutes the principal aim of medicine and of the good doctor? Is there something about the medical care of patients, especially children, that requires special non-technical qualities? Frequently, answers to these questions focus on medical traditions. Ladd, however, turns to the domain of moral philosophy. I shall not iterate Ladd’s analyses and conclusions, but merely discuss a few issues which, I hope, will stimulate further reflections.
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Spicker, S.F. (1989). Comments on John Ladd’s ‘the Good Doctor and the Medical Care of Children’. In: Kopelman, L.M., Moskop, J.C. (eds) Children And Health Care. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27406-5_24
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