Virtue Ethics

Towards an understanding of the flourishing practitioner

Postgraduate Medical Journal 2009; 85 399-401 Published Online First: 23 Jul 2009. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.2008.077412


Flourishing in a fragmented world.

Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2015 May;16(3):219-20.


Defining and cultivating the virtues.

Br J Gen Pract. 2002 Sep;52(482):782-3.


The sovereignty of virtue.

Br J Gen Pract. 2002 Aug;52(481):694-5.


After bioethics and towards virtue?

J Med Ethics. 1993 Mar;19(1):17-8.


Balint Memorial Lecture 2019 

text published in the Balint Society Journal 2019 

 available as a  livie recording on the Balint website (balint.co.uk 50th Anniversary celebrations)


Medical ethics: a brief response to Seedhouse.

J Med Ethics. 1995 Feb;21(1):47-8.


Setting boundaries: a virtue approach to the clinician-patient relationship in general practice

Reader in Primary Care ethics Chapter 6

Bowman D & Spicer J (2007) publ Radcliffe Press