Vol. 17 No. 2 (1997): Bioética
Articles

De qué manera la medicina le salvó la vida a la ética

Stephen Toulmin
University of Southern California

Published 1997-11-01

Abstract

In this essay the author relates bioethics to Anglo-Saxcin moral philosophy in the early twentieth century. According to him the direct engagement ofmoral philosophers with concrete cases and issues in medicine and biomedical research helped to rescue ethics from the abstract irrelevance into which much of the field had fallen.