Caring about HealthIn this volume the author not only examines the ethical demands that arise when dealing with concepts of caring, health, disease, suffering and pain, but also explores the forms of ethical education that would help health care workers to respond to those demands. |
Contents
Moral Education for Nursing Decisions | 17 |
Towards a Theory of Caring | 41 |
Acting from the Virtue of Caring | 59 |
Socratic Dialogue and the Virtuous Clinician | 73 |
The Body and WellBeing | 93 |
Health and Subjectivity | 107 |
Disease and Subjectivity | 133 |
Suffering and the Goals of Medicine | 157 |
Pain and Communication | 183 |
Bibliography | 207 |
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