Practicing Medicine And Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, And Goals Of Care

This book explores medicine, ethics, and the challenge of moral diversity in health care. It explores how a health professional's moral beliefs and values influence the care he or she provides. It focuses on the need for a physician's wisdom, goals to guide patient care, and respect for conscience and integrity. The book culminates in a framework for practical wisdom in medicine that reflects the importance of integration (of an individual's beliefs, values, reasoning, actions, and identity), moral dialogue, humility, and professionals' obligations to patients, themselves, and society.

• • Author: Lauris Christopher Kaldjian
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: May 26, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 296 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107012163
• • ISBN-13: 9781107012165