From the reviews: "Corrado Viafora ... has assembled essays from a clinical bioethics conference which reflect a large and enduring perspective on the origins of clinical ethics and its future. ... I recommend this book to those who seek a deeper understanding of bioethics as it is rooted in both ancient and recent philosophy and in the practical search for consensus in modern clinical dilemmas. ... this collection is helpful when considering the plurality of world views and value systems of both patients and physicians." (R. Henry Williams, Ethics and Medicine, Vol. 25 (1), 2009)

• Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models.- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age.- The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient.- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society.- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics.- Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating “Internalmorality” and “External Morality”.- “A Helping and Caring Profession”: Medicine as a Normative Practice.- The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions.- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness.- The Right to Choose One’s Health.- The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine.- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources.- Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context.- Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine.- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals.- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.