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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779846003321

Autore

Radest Howard B. <1928-2014.>

Titolo

From clinic to classroom [[electronic resource] ] : medical ethics and moral education / / Howard B. Radest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2000

ISBN

0-313-00169-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

174/.2

Soggetti

Medical ethics

Moral education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Doing and Undoing Ethics; Chapter 2 Science and Story; Chapter 3 Whose Story Is It; Chapter 4 White Coats and Business Suits; Chapter 5 Making Moral Sense; Chapter 6 Being and Denial; Chapter 7 Back to the Beginning; Postscript and Moral Education; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume argues that moral education in the late 1990's is too abstract and would benefit from the adoption of the practical approach typical of biomedical ethics: ""thinking with cases"". The author explores various issues of moral epistemology and urges realism in ethics.