Bioethics as practice / / Judith Andre
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| Autore: |
Andre Judith
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| Titolo: |
Bioethics as practice / / Judith Andre
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 174/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medical ethics |
| Bioethics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | November 1994 -- Bioethics as something new -- Bioethics as a territory: an allegory -- The languages of bioethics -- Bioethics as a practice -- Bioethics and moral development -- Virtue in bioethics: choosing projects well -- The goods we want and the goods we need: a call for integrity and discernment -- Virtuous communities -- Intellectual virtue and interdisciplinary work -- A new millennium. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies. The work they do also varies widely: consulting on ethical issues in patient care, working with legislatures, dealing with the media, teaching, speaking, writing and more.Writing as a participant in this developing field, Judith Andre offers a model to unify its diversity. Using the term ""bioethics"" broadly, to include all the medical humanities, she articulates ideals for the field, identifies its temptations a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bioethics as practice |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908727-7-7 |
| 0-8078-6121-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824263503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in social medicine.