Overview
- Connects irrational components of ethics with rational elements of conceptualization and calculus of ethics
- Questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and connected notions such as (informed) consent
- Stresses the importance of and opens up French literature on medical ethics to an Ango-American audience
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 138)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book questions the notions of person, personality, dignity, and other connected notions such as (informed) consent, and discusses new perspectives on categories that allow ethical debates in medicine to overcome morals and ordinary religious schemes. The book states that one has to be careful when thinking about situations in terms of notions and principles that have been obtained in similar situations. Though this book is mostly philosophical, it is also of great practical interest to healthcare givers. It warns caregivers not to rely too much on notions such as person, autonomy, and consent, which are supposedly firm but can be proven to be unreliable in spite of appearances. Furthermore, this work warns against a narrow anthropologisation of ethics which would make technophobian positions unavoidable. On the contrary, this book is open to robotics and offers – among other things - a sustained exploration of the notion of intimacy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jean-Pierre Cléro is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rouen and Director of the Centre Bentham (Sciences Po - Paris). He contributed to the edition and translation of Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Vrin, Paris, 2011). He is the author of many books on classical utilitarianism: Bentham, philosophe de l’utilité, and Calcul moral ou comment raisonner en éthique (A. Colin, Paris, 2004). He also translated many other books of Bentham, Stuart Mill, Moore, Harsanyi. The problem that leads him in ethics was first the functioning of passions and then is the question what is a fiction ? in different fields like epistemology and ethics (conducing to the book Essai sur les fictions, Hermann, Paris, mai 2014). About the questions of ethics he has much published in reviews (Revue Française d’Éthique appliquée, Cahiers de l’espace éthique de l’université Paris Sud) and much taught in universities and university hospitals. His activity is not limited to the theoretical field. He is a member of several French « espaces éthiques » where the question is to give a piece of advice on ethical problems that arise today. He never separates his occupation of teaching and writing from these of practical activity of counsel in ethical questions (at Rouen: CHU & CHR -psychiatry- ; and abroad, in Belgium, Spain, Romania and Quebec with which the University of Rouen is actually connected).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reflections on Medical Ethics
Book Subtitle: A Search for Categories of Medical Ethics
Authors: Jean-Pierre Cléro
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65233-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65232-6Published: 09 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65235-7Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65233-3Published: 08 February 2021
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 184
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Psychiatry