Reading Engelhardt [electronic resource] : essays on the thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. / edited with an introduction by Brendan P. Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, James E. Reagan.
This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference `Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters...
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| Summary: | This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference `Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters direct primary attention to various aspects of Engelhardt's philosophy of medicine and bioethics as presented in The Foundations of Bioethics and Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. Among the topics treated are the economics of health care and the medical profession, the libertarian and communitarian aspects of Engelhardt's thought, the moral status of children, abortion, the moral foundations for a health care system, feminism and clinical epistemology, and the relation between secular and religious moralities. In response to the various challenges posed by the authors, Engelhardt considers the implications of the failure of the modern philosophical project, the role of reason in ethics, and the resolution of conflict among communities that do not share the same moral vision. The book will be of interest to professionals in medicine, philosophy, theology, health policy, and law, and to graduate students in those disciplines. |
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| Item Description: | Papers first presented at a conference held at Youngstown State University. Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.: pages 293-305. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 312 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401155304 9401155305 9780792345725 079234572X 9401063281 9789401063289 |