Published September, 2012
By Russell DiSilvestro
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Many debates about the moral status of things-for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals-eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question-for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love.

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Published March, 2012
By Springer, Howard A. Brody, Zahra Meghani and Kimberly Greenwald
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan's life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics.

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Published January, 2012
By James A. Marcum
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Further, virtue theory is discussed, along with virtue ethics and virtue epistemology, and specific virtues, especially as they relate to medicine.

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Published November, 2011
By G.J. Agich and C.E. Begley
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Medicine, morals and money have, for centuries, lived in uneasy cohabitation. Pla.o held that the physician must cultivate the art of getting paid as well as the art of healing, for even if the goal of medicine is healing and not making money, the self-interest of the craftsman is satisfied thereby [4].

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Published November, 2011
By J.C. Moskop and L.M. Kopelman
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems.

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Published October, 2011
By Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Unlike any other volume focusing on women's health issues, this collection brings together a wealth of cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on the intersection of breasts and medicine. Among other works on similar subject matters, the academic versatility of this volume is unparalleled.

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Published October, 2011
By Ilana Lowy and Ilana Loewy
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology.

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Published September, 2011
By S.F. Spicker, S.R. Ingman and Ian Lawson
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There is both a timeliness and a transcendent 'rightness' in the fact that scholars, clinicians, and health professionals are beginning to examine the ethics-based components of decision making in health care of the elderly.

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Published September, 2011
By Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This book elucidates and advances the thesis that clinical medicine is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. Covers the structure of medical language, the clinical encounter and clinical decision-making and other vital issues.

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Published September, 2011
By H.A Ten Have, S.F. Spicker and G.L Kimsma
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In 1987, a conference on this theme was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the occasion of the founding of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH).

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