The Virtuous Physician The Role of Virtue in Medicine /

• Main Author: Marcum, James A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 114
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Life sciences.; Medical education.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.; Medical Education.

Although modern medicine enjoys unprecedented success in providing excellent technical care, many patients are dissatisfied with the poor quality of care or the unprofessional manner in which physicians sometimes deliver it. Recently, this patient dissatisfaction has led to quality-of-care and profe...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments.- Preface
• 1. Medicine’s crises
• 2. Virtue theory, ethics, and epistemology
• 3. Virtues and vices
• 4. On caring and uncaring
• 5. On prudent love and imprudent lovelessness
• 6. Medical stories
• 7. The virtuous physician and medicine’s crises
• 8. Figures
• References.- Notes.