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.

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...

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.