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Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Medicine

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In this chapter, we propose a methodology of Ethical Counselling addressed to patients and/or to their relatives. We show to what extent this is strongly grounded in a robust philosophical tradition: the Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is emphasised that such a methodology has been thought in order to help patients to make an aware ethical choice after having analysed what we call their Personal Philosophy, that is, their more or less systematic set of personal values, ideas and religious beliefs.

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    To be philologically correct, in Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle uses the concept of sophrosyne in a narrower way in comparison with what we are saying in this chapter. The same term, however, was used in the sense we need by other Greek philosophers. For example, by Plato in Cratylus.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgico Specialistiche, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Giovanni Boniolo

  2. Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Giovanni Boniolo

  3. Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

    Virginia Sanchini

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chi, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Giovanni Boniolo

  2. Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO, Milan, Italy

    Virginia Sanchini

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Boniolo, G., Sanchini, V. (2016). Ethical Counselling for Patients. In: Boniolo, G., Sanchini, V. (eds) Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Medicine. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27690-8_2

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