The Virtues in Medical PracticeOxford University Press, 11. nov. 1993 - 224 sider In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical ethicists. This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts of virtue, the virtues, and the virtuous physician are examined along with the place of the virtues of trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and effacement of self-interest in medicine. The authors discuss the relationship between and among principles, rules, virtues, and the philosophy of medicine. They also address the difference virtue-based ethics makes in confronting such practical problems as care of the poor, research with human subjects, and the conduct of the healing relationship. This book with the author's previous volumes, A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice and For the Patient's Good, are part of their continuing project of developing a coherent moral philosophy of medicine. |
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Side xi
... defining the riches of this tradition in philosophy.23 The result has been a veritable renaissance of interest in virtue ... define the moral quandary . While incomplete , a principle - based ethic nonetheless has much to offer , not the ...
... defining the riches of this tradition in philosophy.23 The result has been a veritable renaissance of interest in virtue ... define the moral quandary . While incomplete , a principle - based ethic nonetheless has much to offer , not the ...
Side xii
... defines the ends toward which the virtues are directed and from which they derive their justification . Indeed , the choices of the virtues we examine and apply to medicine are made in the context of a philosophy of medicine . We have ...
... defines the ends toward which the virtues are directed and from which they derive their justification . Indeed , the choices of the virtues we examine and apply to medicine are made in the context of a philosophy of medicine . We have ...
Side 3
... define a moral life consistent with the ends , goals , and purposes of medicine . For centuries , this source was ... defines the virtues most specific to medicine , the way they delineate the character traits that the good physician ...
... define a moral life consistent with the ends , goals , and purposes of medicine . For centuries , this source was ... defines the virtues most specific to medicine , the way they delineate the character traits that the good physician ...
Side 6
... defining the " core " or cardinal virtues . We do not think it necessary to defend the doctrine of the mean ... definition of virtue as a mean , Aristotle's conceptualization of virtue and its relationship to the good , to a philosophy ...
... defining the " core " or cardinal virtues . We do not think it necessary to defend the doctrine of the mean ... definition of virtue as a mean , Aristotle's conceptualization of virtue and its relationship to the good , to a philosophy ...
Side 7
... definition of the nature of human life , its destiny , and the source of the principles that define the good life . These views interacted with and reshaped the classical idea . The notion of divine law and spiritual life became ...
... definition of the nature of human life , its destiny , and the source of the principles that define the good life . These views interacted with and reshaped the classical idea . The notion of divine law and spiritual life became ...
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The Link Between Virtues Principles and Duties | 18 |
Medicine as a Moral Community | 31 |
The Ends of Medicine and Its Virtues | 51 |
Fidelity to Trust | 65 |
Compassion | 79 |
Justice | 92 |
Fortitude | 109 |
Temperance | 117 |
Integrity | 127 |
SelfEffacement | 144 |
How Does Virtue Make a Difference? | 165 |
Can the Medical Virtues Be Taught? | 175 |
Toward a Comprehensive Philosophy for Medicine | 183 |
Index | 199 |
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Side 9 - Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law', which he restates a few sentences later as.
Side 9 - Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Side 49 - ... the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Side 124 - Hopeless injury" as Braithwaite and I defined it is: a condition in which there is no potential for growth or repair; no observable pleasure or happiness from living . . . and a total absence of one or more of the following attributes of quality of life: cognition or recognition, motor activity, memory or awareness of time, consciousness, and language or other intelligent means of communicating thoughts or wishes.
Side 128 - Autonomy is therefore the ground of the dignity of human nature and of every rational nature.
Side 127 - Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless; and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Side 196 - John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1971...
Side 142 - Teaching Ethics, The Humanities, and Human Values in Medical Schools: A Ten-Year Overview (Washington, DC: Institute on Human Values in Medicine, Society for Health and Human Values, 1982).
Side 182 - I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations in regard to organizational and financial matters for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
Side 66 - Trust then is the generalized expectation that another will handle his freedom, his disturbing potential for diverse action in keeping with his personality, or rather in keeping with the personality which he has presented and made socially visible.