James A Marcum: The Virtuous Physician, Gebunden

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. Medicine s crises
Chapter 2. Virtue theory, ethics, and epistemology
Chapter 3. Virtues and vices
Chapter 4. On caring and uncaring
Chapter 5. On prudent love and imprudent lovelessness
Chapter 6. Medical stories
Chapter 7. The virtuous physician and medicine s crises
Figures
References
Notes

Klappentext

I propose a notion of virtuous physician to address the quality-of-care and professionalism crises plaguing modern medicine. To that end, I discuss the nature of the two crises and efforts to resolve them. I then briefly introduce the notion of virtuous physician and outline its basic features. Next, I discuss virtue theory, along with virtue ethics and epistemology, and specific virtues, especially as they relate to medicine. I then explore the ontological priority of caring as the metaphysical virtue for grounding a notion of virtuous physician, and two ontic virtues-care and competence. Next, I examine the transformation of competence into prudent wisdom and care into personal radical love to forge the compound virtue of prudent love, which is sufficient for defining the virtuous physician. I then reconstruct two clinical case stories, which illustrate the various virtues associated with medical practice. Finally, I discuss how the notion of virtuous physician addresses the quality-of-care and professionalism crises.