| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theory -- Virtue theory -- Link between virtues, principles and duties -- Medicine as a moral community -- Ends of medicine and its virtues -- Virtues in medicine -- Fidelity to trust -- Compassion -- Phronesis: medicine's indispensable virtue -- Justice -- Fortitude -- Temperance -- Integrity -- Self-effacement -- Practice of virtue -- How does virtue make a difference? -- Can the medical virtues be taught? -- Toward a comprehensive philosophy for medicine. |
| Summary |
This book constructs a virtue-based ethics for medicine and health care. Beginning with the problem of relating virtues to principles, the authors develop a theory that this linkage lies in the goals of medicine and the nature of medical practice as a moral community. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and self-effacement are discussed in separate chapters. The book ends by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine makes a difference in analysing problems like caring for the poor, research on human subjects, whether the medical virtues can be taught in professional training, and how a refurbished philosophy of medicine can enhance medicine and health care in the future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Bioethics. |
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Philosophy, Medical. |
| Indexed Term |
Medicine Ethics |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Thomasma, David C., 1939-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920- Virtues in medical practice. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195082893 (DLC) 92049073 (OCoLC)27034250 |
| ISBN |
1423763564 (electronic book) |
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9781423763567 (electronic book) |
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160129929X |
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9781601299291 |
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1280443472 |
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9781280443473 |
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0195082893 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195082890 |
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