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Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine - Integrative Bioethics (Paperback)
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Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine - Integrative Bioethics (Paperback)
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"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 validity), how medical protocols are
administered (checks and balances), how medical certainty is
evaluated (probability) and medical responsibility is framed
(personal or collective), and how medical knowledge is transmitted
(popular media versus professional journals) and how medical care
is allocated (insurance policies and government subsides). The book
examines the present predicaments of medicine within a broad
cultural context and suggests that rational discourse and parochial
ethical dialogue may be futile in the face of competing and
incommensurable frameworks and agendas, attitudes and wishes. The
authors show that, in the postmodern age, two interrelated issues
surface when it comes to medicine. On the one hand, there is a
strong critique of science and the privileges associated with the
scientific discourse and, on the other, there is still a
deep-seated quest for certainty in all medical matters.
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