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The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and their Cure

Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Josef Seifert

    1. International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein (IAP) and Chile (IAP-PUC), Santiago, Chile
      Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 82)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. The Nature and the Seven Goals of Medicine as Objects of a Dramatic Free Choice of the Physician Today

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 1-87

  3. The Dignity of the Human Person as a ‘Universal of Medical Ethics’

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 89-138

  4. From the Morally Relevant Goals of Medicine to Medical Ethics

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 139-185

  5. The Freedom of Choice for or Against the Basic Goods and Ends of Medicine

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 187-236

  6. Rational Justification of an Objective and Publicly Acceptable Bioethics

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 237-304

  7. Are there Absolute Moral Obligations Towards Finite Goods? A Critique of ‘Teleological Ethics’ and of the Destruction of Bioethics Through Consequentialism

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 305-348

  8. Epilogue

    • Josef Seifert
    Pages 349-353

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 355-405
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At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice. For centuries, almost for two millennia, how­ ever, those who practiced medicine lived in a relatively clearly defined ethical and implicitly philosophical or religious 'world-order' within which they could safely turn to medical practice, knowing right from wrong, or at least being told what to do and what not to do. Today, however, the situation has radically changed, mainly due to three quite different reasons: First and most obviously, physicians today are faced with a tremendous development of new possibilities and techniques which allow previously unheard of medical interventions (such as cloning, cryo-conservation, ge­ netic interference, etc. ) which call out for ethical reflection and wise judgment but regarding which there is no legal and medical ethical tradition. Traditional medical education did not prepare physicians for coping with this new brave world of mod­ em medicine. Secondly, there are the deep philosophical crises and the philosophical diseases of medicine mentioned in the preface that lead to a break-down of firm and formative legal and ethical norms for medical actions.

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  • International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein (IAP) and Chile (IAP-PUC), Santiago, Chile

    Josef Seifert

  • Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Josef Seifert

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