Research Catalog

Title

Underpinnings of medical ethics / Edmond A. Murphy, James J. Butzow, Edward L. Suarez-Murias.

Author

Murphy, Edmond A., 1925-

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Butzow, James J.
• Suarez-Murias, Edward L.

Description

xv, 480 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Thus far in the development of the discipline of medical ethics, the overriding concern has been with solutions to specific problems. General discussion is hampered by lack of understanding both of the scope and methodology of medical ethics and of its scientific and philosophical basis. In Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond A. Murphy, James J. Butzow, and Edward L. Suarez-Murias offer much-needed clarification of the purview, ontological basis, and methodology of a medical ethics that is to be comprehensive and yet readily accepted by all.

Subject

• Medical ethics > Philosophy
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics > Philosophy
• Medizinische Ethik
• Medische ethiek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-462) and indexes.

Contents

I. Overtures -- 1. Introduction to Medical Ethics as a Discipline -- 2. Ethical Systems -- 3. Some Paradigms -- 4. Philosophical Interfaces -- 5. Ontological Cohesion -- II. Some Important Structures -- 6. Thing and Act -- 7. Facts, Goals, and Strategies -- 8. Normality and Disease -- 9. Probability, Certainty, and Certitude -- 10. On Making Decisions -- III. Involvement of the Person -- 11. Duration and Quality of Life -- 12. Pain and Suffering -- 13. Respect and Intention -- 14. External Phenomenology of Responsibility -- 15. Internal Phenomenology of Responsibility -- 16. The Main Perspectives.

ISBN

• 0801855683
• 9780801855689

LCCN

97001405

OCLC

• ocm36308161
• 36308161
• SCSB-350718

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library