The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics A Naturalistic-Humanistic Approach /

• Main Authors: Maier, Barbara (Author), Shibles, Warren A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 47
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This book explores currently unchallenged methods in medicine, such as “evidence-based medicine”, from the perspectives of humanism and philosophy of medicine. The book discusses issues of medical treatment and moral approaches and indicates the strongest arguments. These arguments are subsequently...

Table of Contents:

• Rationale of the book
• About the Authors
• 1. Metaphor in Medicine. The Metaphorical Method
• 2. Definition
• 3. Decision Making: fallacies and other mistakes
• 4. Analysis of Causation in Medicine
• 5. Ethics and Non-Ethics
• 6. Medicotheology and Biotheology
• 7. Emotion in Medicine
• 8. Enlightened Versus Normative Management. Ethics Versus Morals.
• 9. Care: A Critique of the Ethics and Emotion of Care
• 10. Egoism and Altruism in Medicine
• 11. Letting Die
• 12. A Critique of Autonomy and Patient Responsibility
• 13. Philosophy and Ethics of the Body
• 14. Organ Donation: Mandatory Organ Donation Declaration
• 15. Stem Cell Research: A Question of Beliefs?
• 16. Philosophy of Prevention
• 17. Ethics Counseling: Philosophy of Medicine Counseling Instead of Medical Ethics Counseling
• 18. Medical Language: The Ordinary Language Approach
• 19. A Critique of Evidence-Based Medicine. Evidence Based Medicine and Philosophy Based Medicine
• 20. Lying in Medicine
• 21. Rhetoric of Death and Dying
• Index.