Bioethics : ancient themes in contemporary issues /
edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
- xiii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
- Basic bioethics .
- Basic bioethics. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Remembering the Hippocratics : knowledge, practice, and ethos of ancient Greek physician-healers / Is medicine art, science, or practical wisdom? Ancient and contemporary reflections / Phronesis and the misdescription of medicine : against the medical school commencement speech / Aristotle, phronesis, and postmodern bioethics / Confessions of an unrepentant sophist / Philosophical therapy, ancient and modern / Thrasymachus and managed care : how not to think about the craft of medicine / Potentiality and persons : an Aristotelian perspective / Can communitarianism end the shrill and interminable public debates? Abortion as a case-in-point / Classical and modern reflections on medical ethics and the best interests of the sick child / Facing death like a Stoic : Epictetus on suicide in the case of illness / Euthanasia and the physician's role : reflections on some views in the ancient Greek tradition / Robert Bartz -- Ronald Polansky -- Kathryn Montgomery -- David Thomasma -- Tod Chambers -- Julia E. Annas -- Alex John London -- Christopher Megone -- Mark G. Kuczewski -- Daryl M. Tress -- Christopher E. Cosans -- Georgios Anagnastopoulos.