Virtue and Medicine (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in the Character of Medicine
Redaktion: Shelp, E. E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Zur Zeit liegt uns keine Inhaltsangabe vor.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400952294
• Artikelnr.: 43985684

Inhaltsangabe

Section I / Historical Analyses.- Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity.- Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century.- Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany.- Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.- Section II / Theories of Virtue.- Virtue and Vice.- Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues.- Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethics.- The Virtues: A Theological Analysis.- Section III / Virtue and medicine.- Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms.- The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import.- Virtue and Medicine: A Physician's Analysis.- The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine.- Virtue and the Practice of Nursing.- The Virtuous Patient.- Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need.- Section IV / Critique.- What's So Special About the Virtues?.- Against Virtue: A Deontological Critique of Virtue Theory in Medical Ethics.- On Medicine and Virtue: A Response.- Notes on Contributors.