Bioéthique ou philosophie de la médecine ?

Abstract

It is unlikely that a philosophy of care or bioethics could draw support from Georges Canguilhem's work. The emergence of bioethics results more from some sort of an ethical dismay than from radically new problems facing medical practice. If so, a genuine "philosophy of medicine", which would pay attention to the history of deontology and medical ethics, should be able to provide more interesting avenues for solving the questions addressed by bioethics, which in fact turn out to be traditional questions within medicine. Medical ethics is not a matter reserved to "experts", it is a matter that devolves both on physicians and patients.