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The Virtues in Medical Practice Pellegrino, Edmund D. (Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medical Ethics, Georgetown University)
The Virtues in Medical Practice
Pellegrino, Edmund D. (Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medical Ethics, Georgetown University)
This monograph constructs a virtue-based ethic for medicine and health care. Specific virtues such as trust, compassion, justice, courage and self-effacement are discussed. The text concludes by examining how a virtue-based ethic of medicine effects the analysis of health care problems.
220 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 3, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195082890 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 234 × 22 mm · 492 g |
| Language | English |