Clinical Bioethics

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

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Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models.- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age.- The "Telos" of Medicine and the Good of the Patient.- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society.- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating "Internalmorality" and "External Morality".- "A Helping and Caring Profession": Medicine as a Normative Practice.- The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions.- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness.- The Right to Choose One's Health.- The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine.- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources.- Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context.- Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine.- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals.- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.