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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark G Kuczewski; Ronald M Polansky |
| ISBN: | 026211254X 9780262112543 0262611775 9780262611770 |
| OCLC Number: | 43287281 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
| Description: | xiii, 304 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Series foreword -- Introduction -- [pt]. 1. The character of medical and ethical knowledge -- 1. Remembering the Hippocratics : knowledge, practice, and ethos of ancient Greek physician-healers / Robert Bartz -- 2. Is medicine art, science, or practical wisdom? Ancient and contemporary reflections / Ronald Polansky -- 3. Phronesis and the misdescription of medicine : against the medical school commencement speech / Kathryn Montgomery -- 4. Aristotle, phronesis, and postmodern bioethics / David Thomasma -- 5. Confessions of an unrepentant sophist / Tod Chambers -- 6. Philosophical therapy, ancient and modern / Julia E. Annas -- [pt]. 2. The heuristic value of classical approaches -- 7. Thrasymachus and managed care : how not to think about the craft of medicine / Alex John London -- 8. Potentiality and persons : an Aristotelian perspective / Christopher Megone -- 9. Can communitarianism end the shrill and interminable public debates? Abortion as a case-in-point / Mark G. Kuczewski -- 10. Classical and modern reflections on medical ethics and the best interests of the sick child / Daryl M. Tress -- 11. Facing death like a Stoic : Epictetus on suicide in the case of illness / Christopher E. Cosans -- 12. Euthanasia and the physician's role : reflections on some views in the ancient Greek tradition / Georgios Anagnastopoulos -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Basic bioethics. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky. |
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- Medical ethics.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Éthique médicale.
- Philosophie ancienne.
- Médecine grecque et romaine.
- Ethics, Medical.
- History, Ancient.
- Greek World.
- History of Medicine.
- Roman World.
- Bio-ethiek.
- Medische ethiek.
- Klassieke oudheid.
- Medizin.
- Bioethik.
- Philosophie.
- Griechenland <Altertum>
- Römisches Reich.
