Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
-
In this article, we offer an extended critical review of a new conception of bioethics, presented by Darlei Dall'Agnol, in the book Care and Respect in Bioethics. ⋯ Dall'Agnol offers an insightful and persuasive account of how the single attitude of respectful care can express practical moral knowledge in healthcare. In this paper, we evaluate, criticize, and suggest refinements. One of them concerns Dall'Agnol's interpretation about Stephen Darwall's views on care and respect as two attitudes supported, respectively, by a third- and a second-personal moral point-of-view. Other is about the Dall'Agnol's Wittgensteinian description of the moral language-games of Clinical Bioethics, adding to the approach the "language-game of rights."