Bioethics and the humanities : attitudes and perceptions
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Bioethics and the humanities : attitudes and perceptions
(Biomedical law and ethics library)
Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.
Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy, literature, creative writing and medical history and how they can affect the attitudes of doctors towards patients and the perceptions of medicine, health and disease which have become part of contemporary culture.
The authors examine a range of ideas in medical practice and research, including:
the idea that patient status or the doctor/patient relationship can be understood via quantitative scales
the illusion fostered by medical ethics that doctors, unlike those in other professions, are uniquely beneficent and indeed altruistic.
An excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of law, medical ethics and medical healthcare law, Bioethics and the Humanities shows the real ethical achievements, problems and half-truths of contemporary medicine.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Bioethics and the Humanities 1. Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Part 2: Medical Humanities: The Critical Function of Philosophy 2. Moral Philosophy and Bioethics 3. Logic and Epistemology 4. Political Philosophy and Bioethics 5. Medical Half Truths Part 3: Medical Humanities: The Supplementary Function of Literature and the Arts 6. Literature and the Ethical Perspective 7. Arts in Health 8. Teaching and Research Part 4: General Conclusions 9. A Humanistic Broadening of Bioethics
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