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The virtues in medical practice /
This book constructs a virtue-based ethics for medicine and health care. Beginning with the problem of relating virtues to principles, the authors develop a theory that this linkage lies in the goals of medicine and the nature of medical practice as a moral community. Specific virtues such as trust,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theory
- Virtue theory
- Link between virtues, principles and duties
- Medicine as a moral community
- Ends of medicine and its virtues
- Virtues in medicine
- Fidelity to trust
- Compassion
- Phronesis: medicine's indispensable virtue
- Justice
- Fortitude
- Temperance
- Integrity
- Self-effacement
- Practice of virtue
- How does virtue make a difference?
- Can the medical virtues be taught?
- Toward a comprehensive philosophy for medicine.