The virtues in medical practice
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
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages)
9781423763567, 9781601299291, 9781280443473, 9786610443475, 9780199748754, 1423763564, 160129929X, 1280443472, 6610443475, 0199748756
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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
English