The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6736-4 (ISBN)
1 The Nature and the Seven Goals of Medicine as Objects of a Dramatic Free Choice of the Physician Today.- 1. On the Nature of Medicine and the Physician. The Physician as Scientifically Trained Healer, as Practitioner of the ‘Art of Medicine’, as Ethicist, and as Moral Subject.- 2. The Physician-Philosopher: Theoretical and Practical Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of Medicine.- 3. The Physician as Moral Agent and Further Hints at the Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure.- 2 The Dignity of the Human Person as a ‘Universal of Medical Ethics’.- 1. Prolegomena.- 2. What Is a Person? Ontological and Axiological Understanding of the Person.- 3. The Four Sources and Dimensions of Human Dignity and Their Characteristics.- 4. Dignity as Object of Rational Knowledge and Answer to Some Objections against the Rational Knowability of Human Dignity.- 5. Human Dignity as a Unifying Bond among Men and Medical Professionals Worldwide.- 3 From the Morally Relevant Goals of Medicine to Medical Ethics On the Superiority of Moral Values over All Extramoral Goals of Medicine.- 1. Introductory Notes on Ethics in Its Relation to Medicine.- 2. The Ambiguity of the Notion of the Good: On the Totally New Quality of Moral Goodness and Evil in Comparison with all Other Goods and Evils.- 3. The Nature of Moral Goodness.- 4. Concluding Remarks.- 4 The Freedom of Choice for or against the Basic Goods and Ends of Medicine Physicians, Nurses, and Other Health Professionals as Agents in the Drama of Freedom.- 1. Towards a Metaphysics and Epistemology of Freedom.- 2. Ethics, Freedom, and Motivation: the Drama of the Physician’s Freedom Can Only Be Understood in the Light of the Free Choice of the End and Not Only of the Means.- 3. Being Free Is Not Restricted to the Sphere ofAction but Encompasses Many Spheres of Human Willing.- 4. Cooperative Freedom and the Affective Dimension of the Gift of Self as an Important Element of Medical Ethics.- 5. Concluding Remarks on the Fundamental Moral Choices in Medicine.- 5 Rational Justification of an Objective and Publicly Acceptable Bioethics A Critique of Ethical Relativism, Skepticism, and Nihilism and an Answer to Engelhardt.- 1. Short Summary of the Results Gained in the Preceding Chapters and of the Problems to Be Treated in Chapter 5.- 2. The Philosophical Plague and Aids of Medicine to Be Discussed in this Chapter and Their Cure.- 3. Are Truth and Goodness Relative?.- 4. Is an Objective Rational Bioethics Possible in Our Pluralistic Society? Engelhardt’s Negative Reply to the Second and Third Questions Posed Above and the Need to Return to Things Themselves.- 5. Is There a Publicly Acceptable Content-full Bioethics?.- 6 Are there absolute moral obligations towards finite goods? A Critique of ‘Teleological Ethics’ and of the Destruction of Bioethics Through Consequentialism On the Invertebratitis of Medical Ethics and its Cure.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Main Theses of a ‘Teleological’ Foundation of Moral Norms.- 3. Immanent Critique of ‘Consequentialist Ethics’: Its Contents and Implications, Contradictions, and Silent Admissions.- 4. Transcendent Critique of a ‘Purely Teleological’ Ethics.- Epilogue.- Index of Personal Names.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.12.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Philosophy and Medicine ; 82 |
Zusatzinfo | XXXVI, 406 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 90-481-6736-1 / 9048167361 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-6736-4 / 9789048167364 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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