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Clinical Bioethics

A Search for the Foundations

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Editors:
  1. David C. Thomasma

    1. University of Padua, Italy

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  2. David N. Weisstub

    1. Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University of Chicago, Medical Center, USA

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  3. Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner

    1. Université de Montréal, Canada

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  4. Corrado Viafora

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  • Compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics
  • Provides a consistent reconstruction of the bioethical judgment at the level of both epistemological statute and institutional context

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 26)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models

    1. Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age

      • David C. Thomasma
      Pages 3-20

    2. The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient

      • Edmund Pellegrino
      Pages 21-32

    3. The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society

      • Diego Gracia
      Pages 33-40

    4. A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics

      • Henk Ten Have
      Pages 41-51

    5. A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics

      • Bruno Cadoré
      Pages 53-59

    6. A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics

      • Michael Parker
      Pages 61-71

  3. Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating “Internalmorality” and “External Morality”

    1. “A Helping and Caring Profession”: Medicine as a Normative Practice

      • Henk Ten Have
      Pages 75-97

  4. The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions

    1. Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness

      • Roberto Mordacci
      Pages 101-113

    2. The Right to Choose One’s Health

      • Paolo Zatti
      Pages 115-129

    3. The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine

      • Paolo Vineis
      Pages 131-137

    4. Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources

      • H. Jochemsen, J. Hoogland, J. Polder
      Pages 139-152

  5. Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context

    1. Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine

      • Roberto Dell’oro
      Pages 155-167

    2. For an Ethical Function in Hospitals

      • Pierre Boitte
      Pages 169-180

    3. The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees

      • Corrado Viafora
      Pages 181-192

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-208
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About this book

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Corrado Viafora … has assembled essays from a clinical bioethics conference which reflect a large and enduring perspective on the origins of clinical ethics and its future. … I recommend this book to those who seek a deeper understanding of bioethics as it is rooted in both ancient and recent philosophy and in the practical search for consensus in modern clinical dilemmas. … this collection is helpful when considering the plurality of world views and value systems of both patients and physicians." (R. Henry Williams, Ethics and Medicine, Vol. 25 (1), 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Padua, Italy

    David C. Thomasma

  • Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University of Chicago, Medical Center, USA

    David N. Weisstub

  • Université de Montréal, Canada

    Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Corrado Viafora

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Bioethics

  • Book Subtitle: A Search for the Foundations

  • Editors: David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub, Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Corrado Viafora

  • Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3593-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3592-0Published: 19 July 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6905-4Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3593-7Published: 28 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 1567-8008

  • Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 208

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics

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