Morals and Medicine

Title: Morals and Medicine
ABP identifier: ABP-W-0003
Creator: Joseph Fletcher
Date: 1954
Type: Book
Description: Joseph Fletcher’s book on moral problems in medicine, including truth-telling, contraception, artificial insemination, sterilization, and euthanasia.
Intellectual stream: Theological ethics; Clinical ethics & professionalism
Verification status: Draft
Evidence confidence: High
Historical significance: An important pre-bioethics work that framed medical moral questions in terms of patient rights and challenged inherited forms of medical paternalism.