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Ethical choices in contemporary medicine : integrative bioethics /

""Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine"" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of ""rights"" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the episte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sassower, Raphael
Otros Autores: Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stocksfield [England] : Acumen Pub. Ltd., 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The predicaments of contemporary medicine; The art of medicine; Technoscientific culture; Public expectations: from the Nuremberg Trials to IRBs; 2 Medical epistemologies and goals; Historical frameworks and buried insights; Theory and practice; Contextualizing medical reality; Knowing and valuing; 3 Medical certainty revisited; The scientific status of medicine; Clinical uncertainty: enrichment loops; Working with clinical uncertainty; 4 A new ethics of medical practice; The plurality of medical knowledge
  • Leading bioethical discoursesCritiques of bioethical discourses; Case study reflections; Recommendations for practising medicine; Bibliography; Index