The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn : A Pellegrino Reader / / Edmund D. Pellegrino ; edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Fabrice Jotterand

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910164958503321
• Autore: Pellegrino Edmund D. <1920-2013, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Notre Dame, Indiana : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , 2011; ©2008
• ISBN: 0-268-08974-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvii, 451 p. : port
• Collana: Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics Series
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetti: Medicine - Philosophy; Medical ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.