Healthy skepticism: The emperor has very few clothes

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 365-371

  Wildes, Kevin Wm ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Court of law; Ethics; Expert; Moral pluralism; Non normative ethics; Normative ethics; Witness

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICIST; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; KNOWLEDGE; LEGAL APPROACH; MORALITY; NOTE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SECULARISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; LEGAL APPROACH;

CONSENSUS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEMOCRACY; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICISTS; ETHICS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; KNOWLEDGE; MORALS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SECULARISM; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0031204382     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/22.4.365     Document Type: Article

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