Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine.

Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine examines the epistemological foundations of medicine to show that many of today's bioethical problems have their roots in how medical knowledge is established, evaluated and transmitted. These epistemological concerns frame the medical choices and claims...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acumen 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • 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.