Building Bioethics: Conversations With Clouser and Friends on Medical Ethics

by Kopelman, Loretta M.

• ISBN13: 9780792358534
• ISBN10: 0792358538
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

K. Danner Clouser is one of the most important figures in establishing and shaping the fields of medical ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of education in the second half of the twentieth century. Clouser challenged many established approaches to moral theory and offered innovative strategies for integrating the humanities into professional education, especially that of physicians and nurses. The contributions published in Building Bioethics: Conversations with Clouser and Friends on Medical Ethics are unique both in their devotion to a critical review of his contributions, and in bringing together internationally known figures in bioethics, medical ethics, and philosophy of medicine to comment upon Clouser's work. These leaders of the field include Tom Beauchamp, Daniel Callahan, James Childress, Nancy Dubler, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Al Jonsen, Loretta Kopelman, Larry McCullough, John Moskop, and Robert Veatch. This book merits special attention from those interested in bioethics, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics, philosophy, medical education, religious studies, and nursing education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
INTRODUCTION
Building the New Field of Bioethics	1	(14)
Loretta M. Kopelman
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF K. DANNER CLOUSER
Principles or Rules?	15	(10)
Tom L. Beauchamp
Ethics from the Top Down: A View From the Well	25	(12)
Daniel Callahan
The Influence of K. Danner Clouser: The Importance of Interpersonal Skills and Multidisciplinary Education	37	(14)
Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Moral Knowledge, Moral Narrative, and K. Danner Clouser: The Search for Phronesis	51	(18)
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
The Wittiest Ethicist	69	(8)
Albert R. Jonsen
Are Better Problem-Solvers Better People?	77	(18)
Loretta M. Kopelman
The Liberal Arts Model of Medical Education: Its Importance and Limitations	95	(14)
Laurence B. Mccullough
``The More Things Change...'': Clouser on Bioethics in Medical Education	109	(12)
John C. Moskop
Contract and the Critique of Principlism: Hypothetical Contract as Epistemological Theory and as Method of Conflict Resolution	121	(26)
Robert M. Veatch
COMMENTS AND RESPONSES
Morality and Its Applications	147	(36)
Bernard Gert
K. Danner Clouser
Concerning Principlism and Its Defenders: Reply to Beauchamp and Veatch	183	(18)
K. Danner Clouser
Bernard Gert
Responses to Callahan, Dubler, Engelhardt, Jonsen, Kopelman, McCullough, and Moskop	201	(32)
K. Danner Clouser
Response to All the Contributors	233	(14)
K. Danner Clouser
EPILOGUE
Bibliography of the Works of K. Danner Clouser	237	(4)
Notes on Contributors	241	(6)
Index	247