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The subject of our discussion in what follows is not medical ethics or bioethics. Rather, we shall look a bit further than usual into medical values. By so doing, to the long-standing debate over whether medicine is a science or an art, we shall add a third option. Specifically, we shall endeavor to show that medicine is a deontic discipline and therefore requires a field of inquiry which will be referred to as medical deontics .
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2012). Morality, Ethics, and Deontics. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2260-6_13
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