The philosophy of medicine reborn : a Pellegrino reader / Edmund D. Pellegrino ; edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand.

  • Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013.
Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

xvii, 451 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What the philosophy of medicine is -- Philosophy of medicine: should it be teleologically or socially construed? -- The internal morality of clinical medicine: a paradigm for the ethics of the helping and healing professions -- Humanistic basis of professional ethics -- The commodification of medical and health care: the moral consequences of a paradigm shift from a professional to a market ethic -- Medicine today: its identity, its role, and the role of physicians -- From medical ethics to a moral philosophy of the professions -- Moral choice, the good of the patient, and the patient's good -- The four principles and the doctor-patient relationship: the need for a better linkage -- Patient and physician autonomy: conflicting rights and obligations in the physician-patient relationship -- Character, virtue, and self-interest in the ethics of the professions -- Toward a virtue-based normative ethics for the health professions -- The physician's conscience, conscience clauses, and religious belief: a Catholic perspective -- The most humane of the sciences, the most scientific of the humanities -- The humanities in medical education: entering the post-evangelical era -- Agape and ethics: some reflections on medical morals from a Catholic Christian perspective -- Bioethics at century's turn: can normative ethics be retrieved? -- Toward an expanded medical ethics: the Hippocratic ethic revisited -- Medical ethics: entering the post-Hippocratic era.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780268038342
  • 0268038341