TY - BOOK AU - Kuczewski,Mark G. AU - Polansky,Ronald M. TI - Bioethics: ancient themes in contemporary issues T2 - Basic bioethics SN - 026211254X (alk. paper) AV - R 724 .B4585 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Medical ethics KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman KW - �Ethique m�edicale KW - Philosophie ancienne KW - M�edecine grecque et romaine KW - Bio-ethiek KW - gtt KW - Medische ethiek KW - Klassieke oudheid N1 - "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 ER -