Bioethics : ancient themes in contemporary issues / edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Basic bioethicsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.Description: xiii, 304 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 026211254X (alk. paper)
  • 9780262112543 (alk. paper)
  • 0262611775
  • 9780262611770
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R 724 .B4585 2000
Contents:
Remembering the Hippocratics : knowledge, practice, and ethos of ancient Greek physician-healers / Robert Bartz -- Is medicine art, science, or practical wisdom? Ancient and contemporary reflections / Ronald Polansky -- Phronesis and the misdescription of medicine : against the medical school commencement speech / Kathryn Montgomery -- Aristotle, phronesis, and postmodern bioethics / David Thomasma -- Confessions of an unrepentant sophist / Tod Chambers -- Philosophical therapy, ancient and modern / Julia E. Annas -- Thrasymachus and managed care : how not to think about the craft of medicine / Alex John London -- Potentiality and persons : an Aristotelian perspective / Christopher Megone -- Can communitarianism end the shrill and interminable public debates? Abortion as a case-in-point / Mark G. Kuczewski -- Classical and modern reflections on medical ethics and the best interests of the sick child / Daryl M. Tress -- Facing death like a Stoic : Epictetus on suicide in the case of illness / Christopher E. Cosans -- Euthanasia and the physician's role : reflections on some views in the ancient Greek tradition / Georgios Anagnastopoulos.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Remembering the Hippocratics : knowledge, practice, and ethos of ancient Greek physician-healers / Robert Bartz -- Is medicine art, science, or practical wisdom? Ancient and contemporary reflections / Ronald Polansky -- Phronesis and the misdescription of medicine : against the medical school commencement speech / Kathryn Montgomery -- Aristotle, phronesis, and postmodern bioethics / David Thomasma -- Confessions of an unrepentant sophist / Tod Chambers -- Philosophical therapy, ancient and modern / Julia E. Annas -- Thrasymachus and managed care : how not to think about the craft of medicine / Alex John London -- Potentiality and persons : an Aristotelian perspective / Christopher Megone -- Can communitarianism end the shrill and interminable public debates? Abortion as a case-in-point / Mark G. Kuczewski -- Classical and modern reflections on medical ethics and the best interests of the sick child / Daryl M. Tress -- Facing death like a Stoic : Epictetus on suicide in the case of illness / Christopher E. Cosans -- Euthanasia and the physician's role : reflections on some views in the ancient Greek tradition / Georgios Anagnastopoulos.

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