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Medical Education and Complicity with Evil

August 22, 2024 • Posted in Blog

 

By Dennis Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics)

Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy Practice

Cedarville University

Moral complicity, sometimes called “moral taint,” is the moral guilt attached to a person by their association with a moral wrong. Complicity requires that a person have some association with the act committed, even if they do not personally perform the deed.[1] However, complicity is complex. For many of us, the perception of cooperation with evil seems to diminish with the passage of time. For example, almost all physicians still recommend the vaccine against Rubella (“German measles”), even though tissue from aborted fetuses was used to develop the vaccine back in ...read more