The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Apologia for a Medical Truant   Edmund D. Pellegrino     xiii
An Introduction: Edmund D. Pellegrino's Project   H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.   Fabrice Jotterand     1
Toward a Philosophy of Medicine
Philosophical Foundations of Medicine
What the Philosophy of Medicine Is     23
Philosophy of Medicine: Should It Be Teleologically or Socially Construed?     49
The Internal Morality of Clinical Medicine: A Paradigm for the Ethics of the Helping and Healing Professions     62
The Medical Profession
Humanistic Basis of Professional Ethics     87
The Commodification of Medical and Health Care: The Moral Consequences of a Paradigm Shift from a Professional to a Market Ethic     101
Medicine Today: Its Identity, Its Role, and the Role of Physicians     127
From Medical Ethics to a Moral Philosophy of the Professions     147
Physician-Patient Relationship
The Healing Relationship
Moral Choice, the Good of the Patient, and the Patient's Good     163
The Four Principles and the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Need for a Better Linkage     187
Patient and Physician Autonomy: Conflicting Rights and Obligations in the Physician-Patient Relationship     204
Virtue in Medical Practice
The Physician as Moral Agent
Character, Virtue, and Self-Interest in theEthics of the Professions     231
Toward a Virtue-Based Normative Ethics for the Health Professions     255
The Physician's Conscience, Conscience Clauses, and Religious Belief: A Catholic Perspective     281
Humanism and Hippocrates: Facing the Future
Humanities in Medicine
The Most Humane of the Sciences, the Most Scientific of the Humanities     309
The Humanities in Medical Education: Entering the Post-Evangelical Era     332
Agape and Ethics: Some Reflections on Medical Morals from a Catholic Christian Perspective     349
Bioethics at Century's Turn: Can Normative Ethics Be Retrieved?     375
Hippocratic Tradition
Toward an Expanded Medical Ethics: The Hippocratic Ethic Revisited     401
Medical Ethics: Entering the Post-Hippocratic Era     424
Biography of Edmund D. Pellegrino     440
Index     442