The Role of Morality in Health Care and Its Dilemmas
Despite the ethical pluralism that exists in the modern health care setting and the "radical moral disagreement") it often leads to, I think it is safe to assume that all health care professionals would agree that the chief goal of medicine is fulfilling the health needs of the human person. To restore health and to help people maintain it is a matter of fulfilling human needs. Therefore, to think clearly about ethical dilemmas in modern medicine it is important to have an adequate conception of what it means to be a human person, because health care, in sustaining health, serves the basic good of human life, of which health is a vital dimension.