Research Catalog

Title

Confessions of a medicine man : an essay in popular philosophy / Alfred I. Tauber.

Author

Tauber, Alfred I.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xviii, 159 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Arguing against an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents a relational ethic that orients medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.

Subject

• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Medical ethics
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects
• Physician and patient
• Ethics, Medical
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Philosophy, Medical
• Physician and patient
• Medical ethics
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medizin
• Philosophie
• Medizinische Ethik
• Filosofie
• Geneeskunde

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Turmoil and Challenges -- 2. The Course of Autonomy -- 3. The Breakdown of Autonomy -- 4. The Call of the Other -- 5. Toward a New Medical Ethic -- 6. Metaphysical Musings -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 0262201143
• 9780262201148

LCCN

98027288

OCLC

• ocm39307372
• 39307372
• SCSB-568564

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library