Classics of Medical Ethics
Fall Schedule

Oct 28 | Principlism
Dec 9 | Reconstructing Medical Morality

Spring Schedule TBA

Classics of Medical Ethics:
“Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality”

Monday Dec 9 | 5.00-6.30pm | Anlyan Center N203 (300 Cedar Street)

In “Towards a Reconstruction of Medical Morality” the influential bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino argues that at a time when the philosophical assumptions on which traditional medical codes rested have become contested and uncertain, a contemporary code of medical ethics must be grounded in “the special nature of the human interactions demanded in the act of healing—a reality experienced by both physicians and patients.”

Organized in collaboration with the Program for Biomedical Ethics. This reading group is open to medical students at Yale School of Medicine. The discussion will be led by Peter Wicks (Scholar-in-Residence, Elm Institute) and Jane Abbottsmith (Yale MD/PhD program).

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All codes of medical ethics reflect certain implicit philosophical assumptions: about the nature of medicine, the patient-physician relationship, and the good life.

Edmund Pellegrino