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Virtue and Medicine

Explorations in the Character of Medicine

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Earl E. Shelp

    1. Theology and Ethics, Institute of Religion, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
      Medical Ethics, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
      Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 17)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Historical Analyses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity

      • Gary B. Ferngren, Darrel W. Amundsen
      Pages 3-22

    3. Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century

      • Darrel W. Amundsen, Gary B. Ferngren
      Pages 23-61

    4. Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany

      • Dietrich von Engelhardt
      Pages 63-79

    5. Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

      • Laurence B. McCullough
      Pages 81-92

  3. Theories of Virtue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Virtue and Vice

      • Bernard Gert
      Pages 95-109

    3. Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues

      • Edmund L. Pincoffs
      Pages 111-131

    4. Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethic

      • Kai Nielsen
      Pages 133-150

    5. The Virtues: A Theological Analysis

      • Gilbert Meilaender
      Pages 151-171

  4. Virtue and Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms

      • Marx W. Wartofsky
      Pages 175-199

    3. The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import

      • Edmund L. Erde
      Pages 201-221

    4. Virtue and Medicine: A Physician’s Analysis

      • Allen R. Dyer
      Pages 223-235

    5. The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine

      • Edmund D. Pellegrino
      Pages 237-255

    6. Virtue and the Practice of Nursing

      • Martin Benjamin, Joy Curtis
      Pages 257-273

    7. The Virtuous Patient

      • Karen Lebacqz
      Pages 275-288

    8. Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need

      • Marc Lappé
      Pages 289-303

  5. Critique

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Theology and Ethics, Institute of Religion, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Earl E. Shelp

  • Medical Ethics, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Earl E. Shelp

  • Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Earl E. Shelp

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Virtue and Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Explorations in the Character of Medicine

  • Editors: Earl E. Shelp

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5229-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1808-2Published: 31 March 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8812-1Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5229-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 364

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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