Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of Medicine

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity....Pages 3-22
Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century....Pages 23-61
Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany....Pages 63-79
Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 81-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Virtue and Vice....Pages 95-109
Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues....Pages 111-131
Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethic....Pages 133-150
The Virtues: A Theological Analysis....Pages 151-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms....Pages 175-199
The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import....Pages 201-221
Virtue and Medicine: A Physician’s Analysis....Pages 223-235
The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine....Pages 237-255
Virtue and the Practice of Nursing....Pages 257-273
The Virtuous Patient....Pages 275-288
Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need....Pages 289-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
What’s So Special About the Virtues?....Pages 307-327
Against Virtue: A Deontological Critique of Virtue Theory in Medical Ethics....Pages 329-345
On Medicine and Virtue: A Response....Pages 347-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-364