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The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession

The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession

Curlin, Farr
Tollefsen, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceReligion General

ISBN10: 0268200858
ISBN13: 9780268200855
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Aug 15 2021
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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