Series Foreword | |
Introduction | |
The Character of Medical and Ethical Knowledge | p. 1 |
Remembering the Hippocratics: Knowledge, Practice, and Ethos of Ancient Greek Physician-Healers | p. 3 |
Is Medicine Art, Science, or Pratical Wisdom? Ancient and Contemporary Reflections | p. 31 |
Phronesis and the Misdescription of Medicine: Against The Medical School Commencement Speech | p. 57 |
Aristotle, Phrenesis, and Postmodern Bioethics | p. 67 |
Confessions of an Unrepentant Sophist | p. 93 |
Philosophical Therapy, Ancient and Modern | p. 109 |
The Heuristic Value of Classical Approaches | p. 129 |
Thrasymachus and Managed Care: How Not to Think about the Craft of Medicine | p. 131 |
Potentiality and Persons: An Aristotelian Perspective | p. 155 |
Can Communitarianism End the Shrill and Interminable Public Debates? Abortion as a Case-in-Point | p. 179 |
Classical and Modern Reflections on Medical Ethics and the Best Interests of the Sick Child | p. 193 |
Facing Death Like a Stoic: Epictetus on Suicide in the Case of Illness | p. 229 |
Euthanasia and the Physician's Role: Reflections on Some Views in the Ancient Greek Tradition | p. 251 |
Contributors | p. 291 |
Index | p. 293 |
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