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In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience within the field rather than on universal theoretical propositions, it is open to criticism for its lack of theoretical foundation. Once in the clinic, however, ethicists noted the extent to which medical practice itself combined the certitudes of science with craft forms of knowledge. In an effort to forge a middle path between pure science and applied medical and ethical knowledge, bioethicists turned to the work of classical philosophy, especially the theme of a practical wisdom that entails a variable knowledge of particulars. In this book contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns as managed care, euthanasia, suicide, and abortion. Although the contributors write within the limits of their own disciplines, through cross references and counterarguments they engage in fruitful dialogue.

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CONTENTS

Series Foreword = ⅶ

Introduction = ⅸ

Ⅰ The Character of Medical and Ethical Knowledge = 1

 1 Remembering the Hippocratics : Knowledge, Practice, and Ethos of Ancient Greek Physician-Healers / Robert Bartz = 3

 2 Is Medicine Art, Science, or Practical Wisdom? Ancient and Contemporary Reflections / Ronald Polansky = 31

 3 Phronesis and the Misdescription of Medicine : Against The Medical School Commencement Speech / Kathryn Montgomery = 57

 4 Aristotle, Phronesis, and Postmodern Bioethics / David Thomasma = 67

 5 Confessions of an Unrepentant Sophist / Tod Chambers = 93

 6 Philosophical Therapy, Ancient and Modern / Julia E. Annas = 109

Ⅱ The Heuristic Value of Classical Approaches = 129

 7 Thrasymachus and Managed Care : How Not to Think about the Craft of Medicine / Alex John London = 131

 8 Potentiality and Persons : An Aristotelian Perspective / Christopher Megone = 155

 9 Can Communitarianism End the Shrill and Interminable Public Debates ? Abortion as a Case-in-Point / Mark G. Kuczewski = 179

 10 Classical and Modern Reflections on Medical Ethics and the Best Interests of the Sick Child / Daryl M. Tress = 193

 11 Facing Death Like a Stoic : Epictetus on Suicide in the Case of Illness / Christopher E. Cosans = 229

 12 Euthanasia and the Physician's Role : Reflections on Some Views in the Ancient Greek Tradition / Georgios Anagnastopoulos = 251

Contributors = 291

Index = 293