1st Edition

Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine Integrative Bioethics

192 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

"Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific... Read more
Introduction 1. The predicaments of contemporary medicine 2. Medical epistemologies and goals 3. Medical certainty revisited 4. A new ethics of medical practice Bibliography Index

Biography

Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower