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From Physicians' Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics - A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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From Physicians' Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics - A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 140
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This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of
the German post World War II development of ethical thought in
medicine. It records their strategies for overcoming initial
resistance among physicians and philosophers and (in the East)
politicians. This work traces their different approaches, such as
socialist versus liberal bioethics; illustrates their attempt to
introduce a culture of dialogue in medicine; and examines their
moral ambiguities inherent to the institutionalization of bioethics
and in law. Furthermore, the essays in this work pay special
attention to the problem of ethics expertise in the context of a
pluralism, which the intellectual mainstream of the country seeks
to reduce to "varieties of post-traditionalism". Finally, this book
addresses the problem of "patient autonomy",and highlights the
difficulty of harmonizing commitment to professional integrity with
the project of enhancing physician's responsiveness to suffering
patients. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics
in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but
rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild. An
ethos, however, that is challenged by moral pluralism in such a way
that, even today, still requires adequate solutions. A must read
for all academics interested in the origins and the development of
bioethics.
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