Virtue and Medicine [electronic resource] : Explorations in the Character of Medicine /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Shelp, Earl E. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1985
Subjects:	Philosophy., Medicine, Medical ethics., Philosophy of Medicine., Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5229-4
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