Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters, by D. Micah Hester. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 105 pp. 18.95
In Community as Healing, Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Princip...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-210 |
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| Summary: | In Community as Healing, Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics and H. Tristram Engelhardt in The Foundations of Bioethics are inadequate. As he states: |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180104002154 |
