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The philosophy of medicine reborn : a Pellegrino reader /

"In this anthology, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand have created a rich presentation of Pellegrino's thought and its development. Arguing that bioethics should not be restricted to topics such as abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, physician-assisted suicide, or...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013 (Author)
Other Authors: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018 (Editor), Jotterand, Fabrice, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011
Series:Notre Dame studies in medical ethics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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