Suffering, compassion and 'doing good medical ethics'

Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (1):87-90 (2015)
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Abstract

‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt a virtue-based ethic and resolve to re-evaluate the goals of medicine, in particular the alleviation of suffering and the role of compassion in everyday ethics.

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After Virtue.A. MacIntyre - 1981 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1):169-171.
The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine.Eric J. Cassell - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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