Research Catalog

Title

Ethical choices in contemporary medicine : integrative bioethics / Raphael Sassower and Mary Ann Cutter.

Author

Sassower, Raphael

Publication

Stocksfield [England] : Acumen Pub. Ltd., 2007.

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Additional Authors

Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell

Description

vi, 154 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Professional Practice > ethics
• Ethics, Clinical
• Bioethical Issues
• Ethics, Medical
• Medical ethics
• Bioethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-150) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. predicaments of contemporary medicine -- art of medicine -- Technoscientific culture -- Public expectations: from the Nuremberg Trials to IRBs -- 2. Medical epistemologies and goals -- Historical frameworks and buried insights -- Theory and practice -- Contextualizing medical reality -- Knowing and valuing -- 3. Medical certainty revisited -- scientific status of medicine -- Clinical uncertainty: enrichment loops -- Working with clinical uncertainty -- 4. new ethics of medical practice -- plurality of medical knowledge -- Leading bioethical discourses -- Critiques of bioethical discourses -- Case study reflections -- Recommendations for practising medicine.

ISBN

• 1844651053 (hbk.)
• 9781844651054 (hbk.)
• 1844651061 (pbk.)
• 9781844651061 (pbk.)

OCLC

124978170

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library