The philosophy of medicine reborn : a Pellegrino reader /
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| Author / Creator: | Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013. |
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| 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 |
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
