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Professor Ladd’s paper is an important and much needed investigation into the theoretical underpinnings of medical ethics. I agree wholeheartedly with his criticisms of a general ethics of rights. My remarks, therefore, will focus on three issues: the connection between legalism and an ethics of rights, Professor Ladd’s criticisms of a particular version of an ethics of rights, and the adequacy of the alternative ethics of responsibility that is offered in its place.
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Hoffmaster, B. (1978). Comments on “Legalism and Medical Ethics”. In: Davis, J.W., Hoffmaster, B., Shorten, S. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6239-8_2
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