A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

Compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics Provides a consistent reconstruction of the bioethical judgment at the level of both epistemological statute and institutional context

Inhalt
Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models.- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age.- The Telos of Medicine and the Good of the Patient.- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society.- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating Internalmorality and External Morality.- A Helping and Caring Profession: Medicine as a Normative Practice.- The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions.- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness.- The Right to Choose One's Health.- The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine.- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources.- Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context.- Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine.- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals.- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.