The Virtues in Medical Practice

by David C. Thomasma and Edmund D. Pellegrino

Book Overview

In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical ethicists. This book offers a virtue-based ethic for medicine, the health professions, and health care. Beginning with a historical account of the concept of virtue, the authors construct a theory of the place of the virtues in medical practice. Their theory is grounded in the nature and ends of medicine as a special kind of human activity. The concepts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195082893
• ISBN13: 9780195082890
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"