The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics)

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Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum the nature of the patients good and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care. In this anthology H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. and Fabrice Jotterand have created a rich presentation of Pellegrinos thought and its development. Pellegrinos work has been dedicated to showing that bioethics must be understood in the context of medical humanities and that medical humanities in turn must be understood in the context of the philosophy of medicine. Arguing that bioethics should not be restricted to topics such as abortion third-party-assisted reproduction physician-assisted suicide or cloning Pellegrino has instead stressed that such issues are shaped by foundational views regarding the nature of the physician-patient relationship and the goals of medicine which are the proper focus of the philosophy of medicine. This volume includes a preface (Apologia) by Dr. Pellegrino and a comprehensive Introduction by the editors. Of interest to medical ethicists as well as students scholars and physicians The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn offers fascinating insights into the emergence of a field and the work of one of its pioneers.