LEADER 03016nam 2200601 450 001 9910822152103321 005 20240131141450.0 010 $a1-84465-397-8 010 $a1-84465-106-1 010 $a1-317-49318-4 010 $a1-282-94344-8 010 $a9786612943447 010 $a1-315-71185-0 010 $a1-317-49319-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000311527 035 $a(EBL)1886872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484210 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12180370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484210 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574213 035 $a(PQKB)11556043 035 $a(OCoLC)1193335839 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB136635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3060930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1886872 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000311527 100 $a20160503d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthical choices in contemporary medicine $eintegrative bioethics /$fRaphael Sassower and Mary Ann Cutter 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84465-105-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aLeading bioethical discoursesCritiques of bioethical discourses; Case study reflections; Recommendations for practising medicine; Bibliography; Index 330 $a""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 epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific validity), how medical protocols are administered (checks and balances), how medical certainty is evaluated (probability) and medical responsibility is framed (personal or collective), and how medical know 606 $aMedical ethics 615 0$aMedical ethics. 676 $a174.2 700 $aSassower$b Raphael$0250660 702 $aCutter$b Mary Ann Gardell 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822152103321 996 $aEthical choices in contemporary medicine$93921405 997 $aUNINA