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Author : Stephen S. Hanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9048125081

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The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking seriously the pluralism in the modern world while recognizing the likelihood of moral “acquaintance” between persons with differing views. It criticizes moral theories that overstate the extent of the problem of pluralism as well as those that imply too much agreement between reasonable moral persons, yet it locates a means for the resolution of many moral conflicts in moral acquaintanceship. Drawing from the work of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., casuists and principle-based theorists, and Erich Loewy and Kevin W. Wildes’s initial development of the concept of moral acquaintanceship, Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions is philosophically indepth work with direct applications for decisionmaking in real medical settings. A work in moral theory as well as a source of real world guidance, clinically oriented bioethics professionals as well as students of bioethical theory should find the theory of moral acquaintanceship provided here important to their work.

Author : Erich H. Loewy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791431313

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Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.

Author : Kevin William Wildes
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society.

Author : Erich H. Loewy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791431320

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Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.

Author : Matthew Vest
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1666747203

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Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success—yet great danger—of bioethics. Matthew Vest traces the story of bioethics since its inception in the late 1960s as a way to uncover a number of hidden assumptions within modern ethics that relies upon scientific theorizing as the fundamental way of thinking. Autonomy and utilitarianism, in particular, are two nearly unquestioned goals of scientific theorizing that are easily accessible, but at what cost? Vest argues that such an ethics enacts a thin moral calculation that runs the risk of enslaving ethics to scientism. Far from the depth of religious ethos and practices of virtue, modern ethics is lost amidst thin ethical theories, enacting a language game that instrumentalizes ethics in service of technological, bureaucratic, and professional end goals. He proposes that true moral living is far from anti–science, but rather is envisioned best when ethics and science are balanced with keen insights from ancient sacred cosmology.

Author : David C. Thomasma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9401733643

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This volume is dedicated to the philosophy of medicine advanced by Edmund D. Pellegrino, a renowned physician educator and philosopher. Pellegrino's thinking about the philosophy of medicine centers on the importance of illness in the life of the patient, and the professional relationship established by promising to alleviate suffering. From this relationship norms are established that contribute to the staying power of medicine as a moral enterprise. Chapters are included from established thinkers and newcomers to the field, all of whom have been influenced by Pellegrino. Some chapters expand upon his thinking for primary care, managed care, and other delivery systems. Other chapters explain in more detail certain key concepts in Pellegrino's thought, like beneficence, doing no harm, and clinical phronesis or prudential decision making. Still others explore areas of difficulty like the reliance on role modeling and virtue ethics, the problem of pluralism and a loss of professional normative ethics, and the search for the foundations of the philosophy of medicine. Constructing a viable philosophy of medicine for the next century is an essential task for grounding the morality of medicine during enormous social and economic change. Pellegrino's thinking and the ideas of those he has influenced will contribute immensely to this challenge.

Author : Kevin William Wildes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9780268034504

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The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society.

Author : Mark Matousek
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0757317278

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Matousek draws from personal experience, interviews, and letters from readers to provide wisdom about friendship, commitment, honesty, greed, jealousy, loyalty, competition, imitation, abandonment, and reconciliation. Each of the twenty-four essays examining a plethora of moral dilemmas is followed by thought-provoking questions.

Author : Gerald P. McKenny
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780791434734

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Argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopianism of medicine. Puts forth an alternative agenda arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.

Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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Wadell (ethics, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago) reconceptualizes moral theology, establishing friendship as central to the moral purpose of life, and integral to Christianity. In this connection he examines Aristotole, Augustine, Karl Barth, Thomas Aquinas, and others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR