Mr Jourdain:
I am in love with a lady of quality and I want you to help me write her a little note....
Philosopher:
Certainly. You want it in verse no doubt?
Mr Jourdain:
No. None of your verse for me.
Philosopher:
You want it in prose then?
Mr Jourdain:
No. I don't want it in either.
Philosopher:
[But] my dear sir, if you want to express yourself at all there are only verse or prose for it....
Mr Jourdain:
Talking, as I am now, which is that?
Philosopher:
That is prose....
Mr Jourdain:
Here I've been talking prose for forty years and never known it, and mighty grateful I am for you telling me!Molière, The Would-Be GentlemanThe recent conversation between medicine and ethics has invigorated both disciplines. Compelling clinical problems have energized and popularized ethics; concepts like autonomy have become tangible daily concerns. Building on medicine's beneficent