Life, Death, and SubjectivityLife, Death, and Subjectivity
Moral Sources in Bioethics
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Current format, eBook, 2004, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsThis book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral resources of health care workers for meeting those demands.
Hooft (philosophy, Deakin U.-Melbourne) does not try to dispel the vagueness of ethics in health care, nor to provide concrete guidelines for action. Rather he argues that in order to be virtuous and, more specifically, in order to be caring, a health worker must be possessed of certain kinds of knowledge. For those who evince the virtue of caring, he says, sound judgment will be influenced by their caring orientation, and will discern what is relevant to the health and well- being of all relevant parties in the situation at hand. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral resources of health care workers for meeting those demands.The seriesValues in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.
Hooft (philosophy, Deakin U.-Melbourne) does not try to dispel the vagueness of ethics in health care, nor to provide concrete guidelines for action. Rather he argues that in order to be virtuous and, more specifically, in order to be caring, a health worker must be possessed of certain kinds of knowledge. For those who evince the virtue of caring, he says, sound judgment will be influenced by their caring orientation, and will discern what is relevant to the health and well- being of all relevant parties in the situation at hand. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral resources of health care workers for meeting those demands.The seriesValues in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.
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