TY - JOUR AU - Wimberly, Jennifer Markusic PY - 2019 DA - 2019/08/22 TI - Virtue ethics and the commitment to learn: overcoming disparities faced by transgender individuals JO - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine SP - 10 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - The purpose of this paper is to utilize virtue ethics as the appropriate paradigm by which to improve health care delivery to transgender individuals. Health disparities for transgender individuals occur external to the medical environment as well as internal to the medical profession. A commitment to virtue ethics should be undertaken to improve the care to transgender individuals. SN - 1747-5341 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-019-0079-2 DO - 10.1186/s13010-019-0079-2 ID - Wimberly2019 ER -