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From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics

A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments

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Editors:
  1. Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

    1. International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, Director of European Programs, Freigericht, Germany

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  • Offers an analysis of bioethical thought under unique historical and political conditions
  • Gives a voice to historical figures whose works have shaped bioethics in Germany today
  • Provides material for a critical re-assessment of contemporary bioethical assumptions

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 140)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes
    Pages 1-81

  5. The Institutionalization of Expertise in Medical and Bio-ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Legal Duties, the Physician’s Ethos, and Ways of Dealing with Damage Resulting from Medical Treatment in the German Democratic Republic

      • Ernst Günther
      Pages 237-256

    3. A German Path Toward Bioethics

      • Hans-Bernhard Wuermeling
      Pages 257-265

    4. Philosophy and Ethical Advisory Boards in German Medicine

      • Ludwig Siep
      Pages 267-284

    5. The Development of Medical Ethics Institutions in West Berlin

      • Ruth Mattheis
      Pages 285-293

  6. The Focus on Responsiveness to Patients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. Ethical Challenges of the Dying Patient: Managing Cooperation Between Physicians and Caretakers

      • Susanne Hahn
      Pages 297-317

    3. Ethical Elements in Thure von Uexküll’s Psychosomatic Thought

      • Hans Wedler
      Pages 319-331
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About this book

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. It records their strategies for overcoming initial resistance among physicians and philosophers and (in the East) politicians. This work traces their different approaches, such as socialist versus liberal bioethics; illustrates their attempt to introduce a culture of dialogue in medicine; and examines their moral ambiguities inherent to the institutionalization of bioethics and in law. Furthermore, the essays in this work pay special attention to the problem of ethics expertise in the context of a pluralism, which the intellectual mainstream of the country seeks to reduce to “varieties of post-traditionalism". Finally, this book addresses the problem of “patient autonomy”,and highlights the difficulty of harmonizing commitment to professional integrity with the project of enhancing physician’s responsiveness to suffering patients. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild. An ethos, however, that is challenged by moral pluralism in such a way that, even today, still requires adequate solutions. A must read for all academics interested in the origins and the development of bioethics. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, Director of European Programs, Freigericht, Germany

    Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

About the editor

Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes studied Philosophy, German literature, and communication science in Bonn and Tübingen (Germany), received an MA on the interpretation of Hegel by G. Lukacz, and spent a year as teaching assistant at the Philosophy Department of the Pennsylvania State University. After her return to Bonn, she wrote her dissertation on a Hegelian reconstruction of  David Hume’s epistemology and was offered a position as Assistant Professor by Penn State. After two years she decided to return back to Germany in order to raise a family (2 children). Serving as Director of European Programs of the International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, she has been organizing as well as presenting at international conferences. As editor of the Journal Christian Bioethics – non-ecumenical studies in medical morality, and member of the editorial board of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the book series Aus orthodoxer Sicht of the Hagia Sophia Edition publishing house (Germany), she continued her work in bioethics, adding a focus on both political philosophy and Orthodox Christian theology. Her essays, written either in German or (mostly) English, have been translated  into Portuguese, Greek, Romanian, Chinese, Russian. In 2016, she received the Engelhardt Award of the Bioethics Center at the Ohio State University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics

  • Book Subtitle: A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments

  • Editors: Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78036-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78035-7Published: 02 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78038-8Published: 03 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78036-4Published: 01 February 2022

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 331

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Bioethics, History of Medicine

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