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Medical ethics. --- Éthique médicale.

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Éthique médicale --- Bioéthique --- Etats-Unis

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Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands.The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into ways in which theories and practices of medicine in the German-speaking world have come to define the human, and highlight how such theories and practices have consolidated, or undermined, notions of humane behaviour. Cultural analysis is central to this investigation, foregrounding the reflection, refraction and indeed creation of these theories and practices in literature, life-writing and other discourses and media.Contributors bring to bear perspectives from literary studies, film studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, and the history of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, this collection is historical in the most expansive sense, for it debates not only what historical accounts bring to our understanding of this topic. It encompasses too investigation of life-writing, documentary, and theory and literary works to bring to light elusive, paradoxical, underexplored yet vital issues in history and culture.

Humanity --- Medical ethics --- Éthique médicale --- Humanité

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Scholars typically view Plato?s engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive; this book shows, however, that his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases and that he views it as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). The book?s arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Although Plato?s rivalries with rhetoric and poetry have received much attention, that with medicine has largely escaped notice. An evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine?s status that emerges in the Gorgias is explored in Plato?s critiques of medicine in the Symposium and Republic. In the Laws this rivalry and tension dissolve; why is Plato?s rivalry with medicine put to rest while the other two continue? Developments in Plato?s views of human nature, with their resulting impact on his political thought, drive his striking adjustments involving medicine in the Laws. This book?s investigation of Plato is timely, since for the first time in the history of bioethics, the value of ancient philosophy is receiving notable attention. Most discussions focus on Aristotle?s concept of phronêsis (practical wisdom), leaving Plato?s promise nearly untapped. The book?s discoveries involving Plato show that he has much to offer bioethics as it works to address pressing concerns about the doctor-patient tie, medical professionalism, and medicine?s relationship to society. Since much is at stake here not only for medicine but for all of us as human beings, there is no better time to explore Plato?s distinctive insights.

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