Commercial contracts and the moral contract: a response to Nigel Cameron.

Abstract

John E. Hare responds to Cameron's article by challenging the adequacy of the Hippocratic Oath as a basis for ethical medicine. The Oath promoted a "guild mentality" that is evident, for example, in modern medicine's resistance to alternative forms of practice. Christians need to "winnow" bioethical views, both those traditionally honored and those that confront us because of new medical developments.