{"id":17018,"date":"2013-03-09T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=17018"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:40:30","slug":"conscience-as-clinical-judgment-medical-education-and-the-virtue-of-prudence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=17018","title":{"rendered":"Conscience as Clinical Judgment: Medical Education and the Virtue of Prudence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Warren Kinghorn<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg\" alt=\"American Medical Association Journal of Ethics\" class=\"wp-image-11169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American Medical Association Journal of Ethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>What would be the implications for medical ethics, however, if \u201cconscience\u201d were not some sort of external moral faculty that trafficked in \u201cvalues\u201d (rather than \u201cfacts\u201d) but, rather, were a quite ordinary part of human decision making, inseparable from the living of everyday life and from the routine, day-to-day practice of medicine? Such a conception of conscience would render it more mundane and unremarkable but would, on the other hand, raise awareness of its quiet but important presence within the daily lives of physicians and medical practitioners. As it turns out, this more integrated conception of conscience was common in premodern moral philosophy. In this brief essay, I will outline the account of conscience given by the premodern philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas (~1225-1274), whose work was important in extending the thought of Aristotle into the medieval era, and will briefly suggest how Aquinas\u2019 thirteenth-century conception of conscience might apply to modern bioethics and to the modern education of physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kinghorn W. <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/sites\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/files\/2018-05\/medu1-1303.pdf\">Conscience as Clinical Judgment: Medical Education and the Virtue of Prudence<\/a>. Virtual Mentor. 2013 Mar;15(3) 202-205.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Kinghorn ExtractWhat would be the implications for medical ethics, however, if \u201cconscience\u201d were not some sort of external moral faculty that trafficked in \u201cvalues\u201d (rather than \u201cfacts\u201d) but, rather, were a quite ordinary part of human decision making, inseparable from the living of everyday life and from the routine, day-to-day practice of medicine? 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