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Reconceiving medical ethics /
This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by trying to fill the gaps with exotic minority interest topics, but by re-examining some of the fundamenta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by trying to fill the gaps with exotic minority interest topics, but by re-examining some of the fundamental assumptions of the familiar philosophical arguments, and some of the basic situations that generate the issues. The most important such situation is the encounter between the doctor and the suffering patient, which forms one of the themes of the book. The authors show that concepts such as the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441121271 1441121277 9781441103970 144110397X |