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A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice (""internal morality"") and the larger social concerns and processes (""external morality"") Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

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Author:   C. Viafora
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2005 ed.
Volume:   26
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9781402035920

ISBN 10:   1402035926
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 July 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models.- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age.- The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient.- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society.- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating “Internalmorality” and “External Morality”.- “A Helping and Caring Profession”: Medicine as a Normative Practice.- The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions.- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness.- The Right to Choose One’s Health.- The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine.- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources.- Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context.- Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine.- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals.- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.

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From the reviews: Corrado Viafora ! has assembled essays from a clinical bioethics conference which reflect a large and enduring perspective on the origins of clinical ethics and its future. ! I recommend this book to those who seek a deeper understanding of bioethics as it is rooted in both ancient and recent philosophy and in the practical search for consensus in modern clinical dilemmas. ! this collection is helpful when considering the plurality of world views and value systems of both patients and physicians. (R. Henry Williams, Ethics and Medicine, Vol. 25 (1), 2009)

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