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Caring and Curing - A Philosophy of Medicine and Social Work (Hardcover)
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Caring and Curing - A Philosophy of Medicine and Social Work (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1980, Caring and Curing is for all those
involved in the 'caring professions' - medicine, social work, and
the other health and welfare occupations. It is both an
introduction to philosophy for the caring professions and a
philosophy of those professions. The authors believe that the best
way to introduce philosophy is to engage in it, to philosophize,
and that the most exciting way to philosophize is to offer a
reasoned but controversial point of view on matters to which people
are professionally committed. They argue, first, that there is an
essential unity of the caring professions in that the concepts of
health and welfare are different aspects of a single value
judgement as to what sort of life a person should be enabled to
live in his society. Secondly, they show the limits of scientific
expertise in relation to human behaviour and argue that the
education of medical and social workers should include broader
humane disciplines to assist them in coping with the problems of
ethics and values of all kinds in present-day society. Thus, the
discussion introduces the main branches of philosophy and deals
with many of the current moral dilemmas in medicine and social
work.
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