ISBN:
9789400727069
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 241p. 10 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Philosophy and Medicine 114
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Marcum, James A. The virtuous physician
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Medicine
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medicine Philosophy
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Medical ethics
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Life sciences
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Medical Education
;
Humanities
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Medicine
;
medicine Philosophy
;
Medical ethics
;
Life sciences
;
Medical Education
;
Humanities
;
Virtues
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Philosophy, Medical
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Professional Competence
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Professional-Patient Relations
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Ethics, Medical
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Medical ethics
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Clinical competence
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Virtue
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Tugendethik
;
Medizinische Ethik
;
Arzt
;
Berufsethik
;
Tugendethik
;
Medizinische Ethik
;
Arzt
;
Berufsethik
Abstract:
James A. Marcum
Abstract:
Although modern medicine enjoys unprecedented success in providing excellent technical care, many patients are dissatisfied with the poor quality of care or the unprofessional manner in which physicians sometimes deliver it. Recently, this patient dissatisfaction has led to quality-of-care and professionalism crises in medicine. In this book, the author proposes a notion of virtuous physician to address these crises. He discusses the nature of the two crises and efforts by the medical profession to resolve them and then he briefly introduces the notion of virtuous physician and outlines its ba
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Medicine's Crises; 1.1 Medicine's Crises; 1.1.1 Quality-of-Care Crisis; 1.1.2 Professionalism Crisis; 1.2 Resolving Medicine's Crises; 1.2.1 Evidence-Based Medicine; 1.2.2 Patient-Centered Medicine; 1.3 Summary; References; 2 Virtue Theory, Ethics, and Epistemology; 2.1 Virtue Theory; 2.1.1 Traditional Virtue Theory; 2.1.2 Eclipse of Virtue Theory; 2.1.3 Contemporary Virtue Theory; 2.2 Vice; 2.3 Contemporary Virtue Ethics; 2.4 Virtue Epistemology; 2.5 Summary; References; 3 Virtues and Vices; 3.1 The Intellectual Virtues and Vices
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2 The Ethical Virtues and Vices3.2.1 Courage and Cowardice; 3.2.2 Temperance and Intemperance; 3.2.3 Justice and Injustice; 3.3 The Theological Virtues and Vices; 3.3.1 Faith and Faithlessness; 3.3.2 Hope and Hopelessness; 3.3.3 Love and Lovelessness; 3.4 Summary; References; 4 On Caring and Uncaring; 4.1 Caring; 4.1.1 Mayeroff's Notion of Caring; 4.1.2 Models of Caring; 4.1.3 Is Caring a Virtue?; 4.1.4 Care; 4.1.4.1 Care Ethics; 4.1.4.2 Peabody's Notion of Patient Care; 4.1.5 Competence; 4.1.6 Care-Competence Relationship; 4.2 Uncaring; 4.2.1 Carelessness; 4.2.2 Incompetence
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.3 Carelessness-Incompetence Relationship4.3 Summary; References; 5 On Prudent Love and Imprudent Lovelessness; 5.1 Prudent Love; 5.1.1 Prudent Wisdom; 5.1.2 Radical Love; 5.1.2.1 Compassionate Love; 5.1.2.2 Empathic Love; 5.1.2.3 Altruistic Love; 5.1.2.4 Radical Love; 5.1.3 Compound Virtue of Prudent Love; 5.2 Imprudent Lovelessness; 5.2.1 Imprudence; 5.2.2 Lovelessness; 5.2.3 Compound Vice of Imprudent Lovelessness; 5.3 Summary; References; 6 Medical Stories; 6.1 "Communion"; 6.2 "Lifelong Effects of Chronic Atopic Eczema"; 6.3 Summary; References
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Virtuous Physician and Medicine's Crises7.1 Virtuous Physician; 7.2 Virtuous Holistic Medicine: Integrating EBM and PCM; 7.3 Resolving the Quality-of-Care and Professionalism Crises; 7.4 Virtues and Medical Education; 7.5 Summary; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2706-9
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