Ethics and the Good Doctor Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing on internationally-leading empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, this book explores medicine as a virtuous profession through a close examination of doctors’ character. Starting from that view that virtues such as kindness, integrity and honesty are core to the medical profession, the book draws on insight from medicine departments, student doctors, and practicing doctors to deepen understandings of the place of virtues in the education and profess...