Clinical Bioethics Book

	Introduction
	Clinical bioethics in a post modern age	3
	The "telos" of medicine and the good of the patient	21
	The foundation of medical ethics in the democratic evolution of modern society	33
	A communitarian approach to clinical bioethics	41
	A hermeneutical approach to clinical bioethics	53
	A deliberative approach to clinical bioethics	61
	"A helping and caring profession" : medicine as a normative practice	75
	Medicine as a practice and the ethics of illness	101
	The right to choose one's health	115
	The tension between ethics and evidence-based medicine	131
	Maintaining integrity in times of scarse resources	139
	Interpreting clinical judgment : epistemological notes on the praxis of medicine	155
	For an ethical function in hospitals	169
	The ethical function in the health care institutions : clinical ethics committees	181