Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of Medicine / Edition 1

by E.E. Shelp

Overview

Interest in theories of virtue and the place of virtues in the moral life con- tinues to grow. Nicolai Hartmann [7], George F. Thomas [20], G. E. M. Anscombe [1], and G. H. von Wright [21], for example, called to our atten- tion decades ago that virtue had become a neglected topic in modem ethics. The challenge implicit in these sorts of reminders to rediscover the contribu- tion that the notion of virtue can make to moral reasoning, moral character, and moral judgment has not gone unattended. Arthur Dyck [3], P. T. Geach [5], Josef Pieper (16], David Hamed [6], and, most notably, Stanley Hauerwas [8-11], in the theological community, have analyzed or utilized in their work virtue-based theories of morality. Philosophical probings have come from Lawrance Becker [2], Philippa Foot [4], Edmund Pincoffs [17], James Wallace [22], and most notably, Alasdair MacIntyre [12-14]. Draw- ing upon and revising mainly ancient and medieval sources, these and other commentators have ignited what appears to be the beginning of a sustained examination of virtue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027718082
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/31/1985
Series:	Philosophy and Medicine , #17
Edition description:	1985
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Section I / Historical Analyses.- Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity.- Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century.- Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany.- Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.- Section II / Theories of Virtue.- Virtue and Vice.- Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues.- Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethics.- The Virtues: A Theological Analysis.- Section III / Virtue and medicine.- Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms.- The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import.- Virtue and Medicine: A Physician’s Analysis.- The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine.- Virtue and the Practice of Nursing.- The Virtuous Patient.- Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need.- Section IV / Critique.- What’s So Special About the Virtues?.- Against Virtue: A Deontological Critique of Virtue Theory in Medical Ethics.- On Medicine and Virtue: A Response.- Notes on Contributors.