Clinical Bioethics A Search for the Foundations

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 fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Viafora, C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
Series:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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