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The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn : A Pellegrino Reader / Edmund D. Pellegrino ; edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Fabrice Jotterand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013, author.
- Series:
- Notre Dame studies in medical ethics and bioethics.
- Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 451 p. : port.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edmund D.Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine.His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient's good, and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-268-08974-4
- OCLC:
- 694144465
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