04557nam a2200505 i 4500 22118631 CSPC 20260901225644.0 260826s2021 inu 001 0 eng d 2021942665 GBC1B3618 bnb 020264480 Uk 9780268200862 22118631 (OCoLC)1231548497 YDX eng YDX BDX UKMGB OCLCO SLV OCLCO OCLCF VGM DLC CSPC lccopycat R725.56 .C884 2021 23 174.2 C928w Curlin, Farr A., author. The way of medicine : ethics and the healing profession / Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. xvii, 226 pages ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Notre Dame studies in medical ethics and bioethics Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: a profession in crisis -- The way of medicine -- The requirements of practical reason -- The doctor-patient relationship -- Autonomy and authority -- The rule of double effect -- Sexuality and reproduction -- Abortion and unborn human life -- Last-resort options -- Conscientious medicine. "Today's medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of "health care services" for the sake of the patient's subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange. Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient's health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics"-- Provided by publisher. Medical ethics Religious aspects Christianity. Bioethics Religious aspects Christianity. Christian ethics. Bioethics Religious aspects Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst00832049 Christian ethics. fast (OCoLC)fst00859107 Medical ethics Religious aspects Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst01014096 Tollefsen, Christopher, author. ebook version : 9780268200879 Notre Dame studies in medical ethics and bioethics. 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 23 174.2 C928w GRD 2021 0 0 0 ddc 0 0 CSPC CSPC GRD 2026-09-01 0 GRD 174.2 C928w 2021 032427 2026-08-25 22:17:59 1-1 2026-09-01 BK 33061 33061