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Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and Medicine
Jennifer Jackson
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Description for Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and Medicine
Hardback. * Clearly written, unpretentious account * Makes classical ethical debates relevant to contemporary health care, and understandable to today's students * Uses plenty of interesting practical examples to illustrate key debates, helping to make the book seem particularly accessible. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 530.
How, in a secular world, should we resolve ethically controversial and troubling issues relating to health care? Should we, as some argue, make a clean sweep, getting rid of the Hippocratic ethic, such vestiges of it as remain? Jennifer Jackson seeks to answer these significant questions, establishing new foundations for a traditional and secular ethic which would not require a radical and problematic overhaul of the old.
How, in a secular world, should we resolve ethically controversial and troubling issues relating to health care? Should we, as some argue, make a clean sweep, getting rid of the Hippocratic ethic, such vestiges of it as remain? Jennifer Jackson seeks to answer these significant questions, establishing new foundations for a traditional and secular ethic which would not require a radical and problematic overhaul of the old.
These new foundations rest on familiar observations of human nature and human needs. Jackson presents morality as a loose anatomy of constituent virtues that are related in different ways to how we ... Read more
This penetrating and accessible book will be invaluable to students of sociology and health care, as well as those who are interested in the ethical uncertainties faced by the medical world.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745625683
SKU
V9780745625683
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About Jennifer Jackson
Jennifer Jackson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, University of Leeds.
Reviews for Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and Medicine
"This book concerns much good sense. Indeed, good sense is as much a methodological concern of the book as it is a way of characterizing its findings." Philosophical Quarterly "Jennifer Jackson has produced an excellent book ... one that should engage the interest of anyone prepared to make a little effort. It is a lively and refreshing work, ... Read more