Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience, Legalism and Human Rights : : An Allegory of Medical Humanities, Foundational Virtues, Ethical Principles, Law and Human Rights in Medical Personal and Professional Development / / Thomas Faunce.
This arrestingly novel work develops a normative synthesis of medical humanities, virtue ethics, medical ethics, health law and human rights. It presents an ambitious, complex and coherent argument for the reconceptualisation of the doctor-patient relationship and its regulation utilising approaches...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (675 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Abbreviations; Abstract; Introduction. Themes (Schweitzer's ""J.S. Bach's Contrapuntal Themes & Keats the Medical Student""); Chapter One: Dificulties with Duty (Bergman's &""The Seventh Seal"" & ""Wild Strawberries""); Chapter Two: Exploration of the Foundations (Anton Chekhov, Thorwalds' ""Dirty Hands,"" & Osler's ""Aequanimitas.""); Chapter Three: Virtue Ethics and the Medical Humanities .. 185 Boswell and Samuel Johnson
- Chapter Four: Institutional Ethical Principles and Rules (Sir Frederick Treves' ""The Idol With Hands of Clay,"" ""The Elephant Man,"" Sinclair Lewis' ""Arrowsmith"" & Eliotts' ""Middlemarch."")Chapter Five: Health Law Principles and Rules (Aristotle' ""Poetics,"" Selzer's ""Imelda,"" Kafka's ""Before the Law"" & Shakespeare's ""The Tempest.""); Chapter Six: Constitutional and International Human Rights .. 399 Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" & Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.; Select Bibliography; Index