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What Good is Another Paper on the Good? No Codes and Dr. Pellegrino

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It is startling — and refreshing beyond measure — to find in Edmund Pellegrino’s paper a discussion of codes and goods in which (a) there is no dependence upon the ordinary/extraordinary distinction; (b) the author unabashedly places biomedical good at the bottom of the hierarchy of goods; and (c) the by now wearisome debate over autonomy and paternalism is dispatched with the assertion that both camps are fueled by the same commitment, the good of the patient. However vehement the debate may become over meanings of “the good of the patient,” it is a welcome advance not only to recognize that a concern for patient good is behind both positions, but to engage in a patient analysis of this “most ancient” principle and the “vexing ethical dilemmas” it engenders ([3], p. 117) — knowing well that few topics are greeted with greater impatience than those that are ancient but still vexing.

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Gadow, S.A. (1985). What Good is Another Paper on the Good? No Codes and Dr. Pellegrino. In: Moskop, J.C., Kopelman, L. (eds) Ethics and Critical Care Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5233-1_10

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