Clinical Bioethics A Search for the Foundations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomasma, David C. (Editor), Weisstub, David N. (Editor), Kushner, Thomasine Kimbrough (Editor), Viafora, Corrado (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 26
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
• Physical Description: XX, 208 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781402035937
• ISSN: 1567-8008 ;

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 foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.