Ethical choices in contemporary medicine : integrative bioethics /

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""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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sassower, Raphael
Other Authors: Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stocksfield [England] : Acumen Pub. Ltd., 2007.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Ethics, Medical
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Clinical
Professional Practice > ethics
Bioethics
Éthique médicale.
Bioéthique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Medical ethics
Medizinische Ethik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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