The virtues in medical practice / Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma.

By:

Pellegrino, Edmund D, 1920-2013

Contributor(s):

Thomasma, David C, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1423763564
9781423763567
160129929X
9781601299291
1280443472
9781280443473
9786610443475
6610443475
0199748756
9780199748754

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtues in medical practice.DDC classification:

174.2 22

LOC classification:

R724 .P34 1993eb

NLM classification:

W 50 P386v

Other classification:

44.02

Online resources:

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Contents:

Theory -- Virtue theory -- Link between virtues, principles and duties -- Medicine as a moral community -- Ends of medicine and its virtues -- Virtues in medicine -- Fidelity to trust -- Compassion -- Phronesis: medicine's indispensable virtue -- Justice -- Fortitude -- Temperance -- Integrity -- Self-effacement -- Practice of virtue -- How does virtue make a difference? -- Can the medical virtues be taught? -- Toward a comprehensive philosophy for medicine.

Summary: This book constructs a virtue-based ethics for medicine and health care. Beginning with the problem of relating virtues to principles, the authors develop a theory that this linkage lies in the goals of medicine and the nature of medical practice as a moral community. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and self-effacement are discussed in separate chapters. The book ends by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine makes a difference in analysing problems like caring for the poor, research on human subjects, whether the medical virtues can be taught in professional training, and how a refurbished philosophy of medicine can enhance medicine and health care in the future.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book constructs a virtue-based ethics for medicine and health care. Beginning with the problem of relating virtues to principles, the authors develop a theory that this linkage lies in the goals of medicine and the nature of medical practice as a moral community. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and self-effacement are discussed in separate chapters. The book ends by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine makes a difference in analysing problems like caring for the poor, research on human subjects, whether the medical virtues can be taught in professional training, and how a refurbished philosophy of medicine can enhance medicine and health care in the future.

English.

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