Author: Edmund D. Pellegrino
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195082893
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195082893
Virtues in Medical Practice
In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical ethicists.
Georgetown University Press 9780878405664 The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice Description Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in todays medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty. Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace th
This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts of virtue, the virtues, and the virtuous physician are examined along with the place of the virtues of trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and effacement of self-interest in medicine. The authors discuss the relationship between and among principles, rules, virtues, and the
Virtues in Medical Practice
Virtues in Medical Practice - Edmund D. Pellegrino, David C. Thomasma
The Virtues in Medical Practice : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195082890 : 0195082893 : 11 Nov 1993 : This monograph constructs a virtue-based ethic for medicine and health care. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, justice, courage and self-effacement are discussed. The text concludes by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine effects the analysis of health care problems.
author david c thomasma author edmund d pellegrino format hardback language english publication year 01 04 1996 subject medicine subject 2 medicine general title the christian virtues in medical practice author pellegrino edmund d thomasma david c miller david g publisher georgetown univ pr publication date apr 01 1996 pages 164 binding hardcover dimensions 6 50 wx 9 50 hx 0 75 d isbn 0878405666 subject philosophy general brand new hardcover all orders get full access to our online status trac
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This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts of virtue, the virtues, and the virtuous physician are examined along with the place of the virtues of trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and effacement of self-interest in medicine
his book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts of virtue, the virtues, and the virtuous physician are examined along with the place of the virtues of trust, compassion, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and effacement of self-interest in medicine. The authors discuss the relationship between and among principles, rules, virtues, and the
