Overview
- A complete new way of thinking about methods used in theoretical as well as clinical medicine
- Explains the Methaphorical Method
- Definitions, decision-making processes in medicine are analyzed
- Ethics is explored and differentiated from “medico-theology”and “bio-theology”
- A philosophy of the body in medicine is offered as well as a philosophy of death and dying
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 47)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Biotheology
- Critical Analysis of Medical Practice
- Decision Making in Medicine
- End-of-life Decision
- Enlightenment Management
- Ethics/Morals
- Evidence–based Medicine
- Health Care
- Hollistic Life
- Humanistic Philosophy
- Life-style
- Medicotheology
- Metaphorical Method
- Normative Management
- Organ Donation
- Patient Responsibility
- Philosophy of Medicine
- Pragmatism
- Prevention
- Stem Cell Research
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Reviews
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“The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics, it provides an overview of the crucial issues being faced in medical practice, replete with interesting case studies and patient-care narratives … . The authors repeatedly encourage good, open communication between patients and healthcare workers as well as between healthcare professionals and management staff. They also advocate constructive dialogue and human relationships based on trust, which are surely relevant aspects of what a philosophy of medicine must promote.” (Francesca Marin, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 34, 2013)
“This book advocates a philosophy of medicine founded on humanism and naturalism. … a philosophical work providing an honest, detailed, analytical inquiry of prevailing concepts and methods used in medicine. … The book, a mixture of philosophical argument, opinions, case studies, and patient-care narratives from the authors’ experience, is best appreciated … . I found this book to be an informative read … . most understood and best appreciated by academics in moral philosophy and ethics … . the book is surely worth the effort.” (Andrew R. Barnosky, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 306 (8), August, 2011)
“The purpose is to present a ‘naturalistic, practical, pragmatic, consequentialistic, and humanistic theory of ethics,’ to apply this to the philosophy of medicine, and to examine existing bioethical arguments in light of this theory. A systematic approach to this topic is quite welcome. … the book will be helpful to practitioners, and … healthcare workers (and everyone else) would benefit greatly from paying greater attention to philosophical ethics. … Readers sympathetic to naturalistic and humanistic philosophies are the most likely to find this work helpful.” (D. Robert MacDougall, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics
Book Subtitle: A Naturalistic-Humanistic Approach
Authors: Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8867-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8866-6Published: 11 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3408-1Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8867-3Published: 03 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 543
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics