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The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics) by Edmund D. Pellegrino, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (editor), Fabrice Jotterand (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care.</p> <p>In this anthology, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand have created a rich presentation of Pellegrino’s thought and its development. Pellegrino’s work has been dedicated to showing that bioethics must be understood in the context of medical humanities, and that medical humanities, in turn, must be understood in the context of the philosophy of medicine. Arguing that bioethics should not be restricted to topics such as abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, physician-assisted suicide, or cloning, Pellegrino has instead stressed that such issues are shaped by foundational views regarding the nature of the physician-patient relationship and the goals of medicine, which are the proper focus of the philosophy of medicine.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This volume includes a preface (“Apologia”) by Dr. Pellegrino and a compre

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Author
Edmund D. Pellegrino, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (editor), Fabrice Jotterand (editor)
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780268089740
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Medical, Humanities

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