Critical Reflections Medical Ethics

Part 1 Medical ethics - its aims and scope: what is the medical ethics business? Raanan Gillon; the goals of moral reflection, Pavel Tichtchenko; a clinical practice perspective, Jarle Ofstad. Part 2 Medical ethics, public morality and moral education: can we teach people to be morally good doctors? Robin Downie and Jane McNaughton; "learning to see" in morals, Martyn Evans; public morality and the institution of medicine, John Polkinghorne. Part 3 The role of applied philosophy: can philosophy legitimately be applied? Hugh Upton; is moral philosophy morally neutered? Dewi Z. Phillips; the value of moral philosophy for clinical practice, Ivan Moseley; images of man in philosophy of medicine, Henk ten Have. Part 4 Ways of doing medical ethics: particular cases and general principles, Neil Pickering; the body as a text - the interpretative tradition, Wim Dekkers; what does phenomenology offer to medical ethics? Soren Holm; clinical ethics and mental retardation - a case study, Pekka Louihala; beyond autonomy? Loretta Kopelman. Part 5 Is "virtue ethics" the way forward?: the good doctor and Aristotle's Good Man, John Saunders; the "ethics of care" as virtue ethics, Alastair Campbell; virtue and motive in the clinical encounter, Eugenijus Gefenas; social virtues and social responsibility, David Thomasma.