From physicians' professional ethos towards medical ethics and bioethics : a German perspective on historical experiences and lasting commitments / Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, editor.
Delkeskamp-Hayes, Corinna, editor.
2022
R724 .F76 2022
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Title From physicians' professional ethos towards medical ethics and bioethics : a German perspective on historical experiences and lasting commitments / Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, editor.
ISBN 9783030780364 (electronic bk.)
3030780368 (electronic bk.)
9783030780357
303078035X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78036-4
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-78036-4 doi
Call Number R724 .F76 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 174.2094309045
Summary This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. It records their strategies for overcoming initial resistance among physicians and philosophers and (in the East) politicians. This work traces their different approaches, such as socialist versus liberal bioethics; illustrates their attempt to introduce a culture of dialogue in medicine; and examines their moral ambiguities inherent to the institutionalization of bioethics and in law. Furthermore, the essays in this work pay special attention to the problem of ethics expertise in the context of a pluralism, which the intellectual mainstream of the country seeks to reduce to "varieties of post-traditionalism". Finally, this book addresses the problem of "patient autonomy" and highlights the difficulty of harmonizing commitment to professional integrity with the project of enhancing physicians responsiveness to suffering patients. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild. An ethos, however, that is challenged by moral pluralism in such a way that, even today, still requires adequate solutions. A must read for all academics interested in the origins and the development of bioethics. .
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Series Philosophy and medicine ; v. 140.
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Part 1: Initial Impediments to Ethical Reflection in Medicine. Chapter 1. The History of Medicine as Inspiration for Medico-Ethical Reflection in Germany: Memories from the Free Zone of Historiography (Richard Toellner)
Chapter 2. Human Genetics Between the Physicians Ethos and Bio-Politics: From Eugenics to Human Gene Technology (Rolf Lother)
Chapter 3. The Development of Doctors Ethics into Medical Ethics in the German Democratic Republic and its Impact on Medical Education (Ernst Luther)
Part 2: The Culture of Dialogue in Medical and Bio-ethics. Chapter 4. Socialist Social Policy as the Basis of the Physicians Ethos in the German Democratic Republic: Humanist Ideals and Economic Realities (Horst Spaar)
Chapter 5. Bioethics and the Defense of a Culture of Liberalism: Philosophical Rationality in the Spirit of Modesty (Gunther Patzig)
Chapter 6. Contributions by Protestant Theology to Medical Ethics and Bio-Ethics in Germany (Jurgen Hubner)
Part 3: The Institutionalization of Expertise in Medical and Bio-ethics. Chapter 7. Legal Duties, the Physicians Ethos, and Ways of Dealing with Damage Resulting from Medical Treatment in the German Democratic Republic (Ernst Gunther)
Chapter 8. A German Path toward Bioethics (Hans Bernhard Wuermeling)
Chapter 9. Philosophy and Ethical Advisory Boards in German Medicine (Ludwig Siep)
Chapter 10. The Development of Medical Ethics Institutions in West Berlin (Ruth Mattheis)
Part 4: The Focus on Responsiveness to Patients. Chapter 11. Ethical Challenges of the Dying Patient: Managing Cooperation Between Physicians and Caretakers (Susanne Hahn)
Chapter 12. Ethical Elements in Thure von Uexkulls Psychosomatic Thought (Hans Wedler).

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