The Virtues in Medical Practice

Edmund D. Pellegrino, David C. Thomasma (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1994
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-508289-0 (ISBN)

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This monograph constructs a virtue-based ethic for medicine and health care. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, justice, courage and self-effacement are discussed. The text concludes by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine effects the analysis of health care problems.

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.

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., is John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Georgetown University. David C. Thomasma, Ph.D., is director of the Medical Humanities Program at Loyola University of Chicago.

PART I: Theory
1: Virtue Theory
2: The Link Between Virtues, Principles, Duties
3: Medicine as a Moral Community
4: The Ends of Medicine and its Virtues
PART II: The Virtues in Medicine
5: Fidelity to Trust
6: Compassion
7: Phronesis: The Indispensable Virtue of Medicine
8: Justice
9: Fortitude
10: Temperance
11: Integrity
12: Self-Effacement
PART III: The Practice of Virtue
13: How Does Virtue Make a Difference?
14: Can the Medical Virtues be Taught?
15: Postscript: An Integral Medical Ethics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.1994
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 238 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-508289-3 / 0195082893
ISBN-13	978-0-19-508289-0 / 9780195082890
Zustand	Neuware