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Beneficence - doing the right and good thing - is the fundamental principle of medical ethics. It points all medical decisions and actions toward advancing the patient's best interests. Yet in our normally pluralistic society where rights are asserted more frequently than obligations, this ancient principle tends to be obscured or confused with paternalism. This book attempts to rejuvenate and redevelop the notion of beneficence as a guiding...

Offers the health care professional a highly readable Christian philosophy of medicine.

Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty.

Este proyecto de los autores se inscribe dentro del movimiento de recuperación de las virtudes dentro de la ética médica. A su juicio, a benevolencia, la abnegación, la compasión, la justicia y la prudencia componen el cuadro de virtudes de la medicina y son el conjunto de cualidades del buen médico. Es un libro de fácil lectura y puede ser muy útil tanto para profesionales de la salud creyentes como para muchos no creyentes.