Bioethics ancient themes in contemporary issues
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
[2000]
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| Colección: | Basic bioethics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series foreword
- Introduction
- [pt]. 1. The character of medical and ethical knowledge
- 1. Remembering the Hippocratics : knowledge, practice, and ethos of ancient Greek physician-healers / Robert Bartz
- 2. Is medicine art, science, or practical wisdom? Ancient and contemporary reflections / Ronald Polansky
- 3. Phronesis and the misdescription of medicine : against the medical school commencement speech / Kathryn Montgomery
- 4. Aristotle, phronesis, and postmodern bioethics / David Thomasma
- 5. Confessions of an unrepentant sophist / Tod Chambers
- 6. Philosophical therapy, ancient and modern / Julia E. Annas
- [pt]. 2. The heuristic value of classical approaches
- 7. Thrasymachus and managed care : how not to think about the craft of medicine / Alex John London
- 8. Potentiality and persons : an Aristotelian perspective / Christopher Megone
- 9. Can communitarianism end the shrill and interminable public debates? Abortion as a case-in-point / Mark G. Kuczewski
- 10. Classical and modern reflections on medical ethics and the best interests of the sick child / Daryl M. Tress
- 11. Facing death like a Stoic : Epictetus on suicide in the case of illness / Christopher E. Cosans
- 12. Euthanasia and the physician's role : reflections on some views in the ancient Greek tradition / Georgios Anagnastopoulos
- Contributors
- Index.
