The philosophy of medicine reborn : a Pellegrino reader /

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Author / Creator:Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013.
Imprint:Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.
Description:xvii, 451 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Notre Dame studies in medical ethics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7297204
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Other authors / contributors:Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018
Jotterand, Fabrice, 1967-
ISBN:9780268038342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268038341 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Apologia for a Medical Truant
  • An Introduction: Edmund D. Pellegrino's Project
  • I. Toward a Philosophy of Medicine
  • Philosophical Foundations of Medicine
  • 1. What the Philosophy of Medicine Is
  • 2. Philosophy of Medicine: Should It Be Teleologically or Socially Construed?
  • 3. The Internal Morality of Clinical Medicine: A Paradigm for the Ethics of the Helping and Healing Professions
  • The Medical Profession
  • 4. Humanistic Basis of Professional Ethics
  • 5. The Commodification of Medical and Health Care: The Moral Consequences of a Paradigm Shift from a Professional to a Market Ethic
  • 6. Medicine Today: Its Identity, Its Role, and the Role of Physicians
  • 7. From Medical Ethics to a Moral Philosophy of the Professions
  • II. Physician-Patient Relationship
  • The Healing Relationship
  • 8. Moral Choice, the Good of the Patient, and the Patient's Good
  • 9. The Four Principles and the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Need for a Better Linkage
  • 10. Patient and Physician Autonomy: Conflicting Rights and Obligations in the Physician-Patient Relationship
  • III. Virtue in Medical Practice
  • The Physician as Moral Agent
  • 11. Character, Virtue, and Self-Interest in the Ethics of the Professions
  • 12. Toward a Virtue-Based Normative Ethics for the Health Professions
  • 13. The Physician's Conscience, Conscience Clauses, and Religious Belief: A Catholic Perspective
  • IV. Humanism and Hippocrates: Facing the Future
  • Humanities in Medicine
  • 14. The Most Humane of the Sciences, the Most Scientific of the Humanities
  • 15. The Humanities in Medical Education: Entering the Post-Evangelical Era
  • 16. Agape and Ethics: Some Reflections on Medical Morals from a Catholic Christian Perspective
  • 17. Bioethics at Century's Turn: Can Normative Ethics Be Retrieved?
  • Hippocratic Tradition
  • 18. Toward an Expanded Medical Ethics: The Hippocratic Ethic Revisited
  • 19. Medical Ethics: Entering the Post-Hippocratic Era
  • Appendix. Biography of Edmund D. Pellegrino
  • Index