20th WCP: Virtue and the Practice of Medicine (1998; Paul Hoyt-O’Connor)
Interesting definition of “practice” as “cooperative endeavor.” Not sure if it’s consistent with Aristotle or MacIntyre, but this article does deal with the important sense of the word as it interests me and cites the key sources. I am intrigued by the emphasis that practices are not private and depend on collaboration with others and with institutional reality. The article also seems to avoid virtue in favor of competence, as in the sentence here:
“Practices demand the regular and recurrent performance of certain tasks, and their swift, adept, if not masterful performance depends upon the acquisition of the appropriate competences.”
