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Title Clinical bioethics : a search for the foundations / edited by Corrado Viafora
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 206 pages)
Series International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 26
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 26.
Contents 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; "A Helping and Caring Profession": Medicine as a Normative Practice; 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
Summary Presents a theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice and the social concerns and processes. This volume provides a reconstruction of bioethical judgement both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, that is clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation
Analysis Clinical bioethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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In Springer e-books
Subject Medical ethics.
Ethics.
Ethics, Clinical
Ethics, Medical
Ethics
ethics (philosophy)
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Ethics, Clinical.
Medical ethics.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Medical ethics
Philosophy.
Medicine.
Philosophy & Religion.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Medical Ethics & Philosophy.
Ethics.
Form Electronic book
Author Viafora, Corrado, 1950-
ISBN 9781402035937
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1402035926
9781402035920