Clinical Bioethics
Subtitle: A Search for the Foundations (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781402035920
Subjects: Bio-ethics; Medical ethics; Philosophy; Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics, Clinical
Description: A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality") Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.