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Bioethics : ancient themes in contemporary issues
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Bioethics : ancient themes in contemporary issues

Author: Mark G Kuczewski; Ronald M Polansky
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Series: Basic bioethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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