Clinical Bioethics A Search for the Foundations [Paperback]

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ( internal morality ) and the larger social concerns and processes ( external morality )

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ( internal morality ) and the larger social concerns and processes ( external morality )

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

Preface. Introduction; Corrado Viafora.Part 1. Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models. Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age; David C.Thomasma. The 'Telos' of Medicine and the Good of the Patient; Edmund Pellegrino. The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society; Diego Gracia. A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics; Henk Ten Have. A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics; Bruno Cador?. A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics; lc*