Reconceiving Medical Ethics - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1441123385 ISBN 13 : 9781441123381

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. does so not by trying to fill the gaps with exotic minority interest topics, but by re-examining some of the fundamental assumptions of the familiar philosophical arguments, and some of the basic situations that generate the issues. The most important such situation is the encounter between the doctor and the suffering patient, which forms one of the themes of the book. The authors show that concepts such as the body, suffering and consent - and the role such concepts play within patients' lives - are much more complicated than the Anglo-American mainstream appreciates. Some of these concepts have been discussed with subtlety by Continental philosophers (like Heidegger, Ricoeur), and a secondary purpose of the volume is to apply their ideas to medical ethics. Designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with some philosophical background in ethics, Reconceiving Medical Ethics opens up new avenues for discussion in this ever-developing field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Cowley is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. His previous publications include Medical Ethics: Ordinary Concepts, Ordinary Lives (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441123385
• ISBN 13: 9781441123381
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Cowley Christopher
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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