Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine - Integrative Bioethics

Informationen zum Autor Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower Examines the predicaments of medicine within a cultural context and suggests that rational discourse and parochial ethical dialogue may be futile in the face of competing and incommensurable frameworks and agendas, attitudes and wishes. This work shows that, in the postmodern age, two interrelated issues surface when it comes to medicine. Zusammenfassung Examines the predicaments of medicine within a cultural context and suggests that rational discourse and parochial ethical dialogue may be futile in the face of competing and incommensurable frameworks and agendas, attitudes and wishes. This work shows that, in the postmodern age, two interrelated issues surface when it comes to medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The predicaments of contemporary medicine 2. Medical epistemologies and goals 3. Medical certainty revisited 4. A new ethics of medical practice Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Mary Ann Sassower Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower, Sassower Raphael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2007
• EAN: 9781844651054
• ISBN: 978-1-84465-105-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, social and political philosophy, Sociology & anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology and anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge