Bioethics
Subtitle: ancient themes in contemporary issues
By: edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky.
Contributors: Kuczewski, Mark G.; Polansky, Ronald M., 1948-
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Medical ethics; Philosophy, Ancient; Medicine, Greek and Roman
Notes: "A Bradford book"

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