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Author:   Rem B. Edwards ,  E. Edward Bittar ,  Wayne N. Shelton
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   JAI Press Inc.
Volume:   v. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.756kg
ISBN:  

9780762302987

ISBN 10:   0762302984
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   01 October 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

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"Part 1 Medical ethics - its aims and scope: what is the medical ethics business? Raanan Gillon; the goals of moral reflection, Pavel Tichtchenko; a clinical practice perspective, Jarle Ofstad. Part 2 Medical ethics, public morality and moral education: can we teach people to be morally good doctors? Robin Downie and Jane McNaughton; ""learning to see"" in morals, Martyn Evans; public morality and the institution of medicine, John Polkinghorne. Part 3 The role of applied philosophy: can philosophy legitimately be applied? Hugh Upton; is moral philosophy morally neutered? Dewi Z. Phillips; the value of moral philosophy for clinical practice, Ivan Moseley; images of man in philosophy of medicine, Henk ten Have. Part 4 Ways of doing medical ethics: particular cases and general principles, Neil Pickering; the body as a text - the interpretative tradition, Wim Dekkers; what does phenomenology offer to medical ethics? Soren Holm; clinical ethics and mental retardation - a case study, Pekka Louihala; beyond autonomy? Loretta Kopelman. Part 5 Is ""virtue ethics"" the way forward?: the good doctor and Aristotle's Good Man, John Saunders; the ""ethics of care"" as virtue ethics, Alastair Campbell; virtue and motive in the clinical encounter, Eugenijus Gefenas; social virtues and social responsibility, David Thomasma."

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