ANNAS - Böcker

Ethicists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the development of virtue in recent years, approaching the topic from the perspectives of virtue ethics and developmental psychology respectively. Such interest in virtue development has spread beyond academia, as teachers and parents have increasingly striven to cultivate virtue as part of education and child-rearing. Looking at these parallel trends in the study and practice of virtue development, the essays in this volume explore such questions as: How can philosophical work on virtue development inform psychological work on it, and vice versa? How should we understand virtue as a dimension of human personality? What is the developmental foundation of virtue? What are the evolutionary aspects of virtue and its development? How is virtue fostered? How is virtue exemplified in behavior and action? How is our conception of virtue influenced by context and by developmental and social experiences? What are the tensions, impediments and prospects for an integrative field of virtue study? Rather than centering on each discipline, the essays in this volume are orgnaized around themes and engage each other in a broader dialogue. The volume begins with an introductory essay from the editors that explains the full range of philosophical and empirical issues that have surrounded the notion of virtue in recent years.

Using courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes as its focus, Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society today. This case-based approach illuminates the value choices involved in modern medicine. The author urges health care professionals to go beyond the minimalist legal "standard of care" by promoting a vigorous, patient-centred medical ethics based on both respect for the human rights of individual patients and responsibility to society. If modern medicine is to enhance human life, a reconceptualization of law as the beginning of ethical discourse, rather than as an instrument to end it, is essential.Most of the papers in this book were originally published in the Hastings Center Report and other journals, but they have all been revised and updated for this volume. They are grouped in three broad sections: constitutional issues, private sector bioethics, and public sector bioethics. They deal with reproductive rights, dying and killing, AIDS, biotechnology and commerce, organ transplants and implants, and resource allocation. No other work provides such an incisive and readable survey of the major legal and ethical issues confronting American medicine.

An annual publication which publishes original articles, some of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.