Ethics in medicine

"How, in the world of modern medicine, should we resolve the ethically controversial and troubling issues relating to health care? Should we make a clean sweep, getting rid of the Hippocratic ethic, or such vestiges of it as remain? If we make a clean sweep have we something better to put in its stead? In this book, Jennifer Jackson seeks to bring philosophical ethics to bear on these questions. She draws especially on the insights of Aristotle and succeeding philosophers regarding the role of virtues and vices in how people shape their lives. Their insights are shown to clarify central issues concerning health practice and policy that continue to be contentious and unresolved.

The book will be invaluable to upper-level students of sociology and health care, as well as those who are interested in the ethical uncertainties currently raced by the medical world"--Jacket.