Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine: Integrative Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9781844651061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str.

Mary Ann Cutter; Raphael Sassower

Opis

Examines the predicaments of medicine within a cultural context and suggests that rational discourse and parochial ethical dialogue may be futile in the face of competing and incommensurable frameworks and agendas, attitudes and wishes. This work shows tha

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The predicaments of contemporary medicine 2. Medical epistemologies and goals 3. Medical certainty revisited 4. A new ethics of medical practice Bibliography Index

O autorze

Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower