Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy - Softcover

Tauber, Alfred I.

 
9780262700726: Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262700727 ISBN 13: 9780262700726
Verlag: Bradford Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A physician/philosopher uses anecdotes, historical narrative, and philosophical concepts to draw a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship.

"My mission is to analyze medicines ethical structure. I do so as both a physician and a philosopher. Of my two voices, it is the latter that is informed by the former.... As a physician I have sought professional solutions to the frustrations of fighting a medical system that has become increasingly hostile to my standards of care for my patients; as a philosopher I will explore here the ethical issues I believe are the root of our predicament."—from the introduction.

In Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Arguing against an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents a relational ethic that must orient medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alfred I. Tauber is the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.

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Verlag
Bradford Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262700727
ISBN 13 
9780262700726
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
179
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