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The Virtuous Physician

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 114)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2706-9

ISBN: 978-94-007-2705-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2011

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Medicine’s Crises

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 1 –28

[In this chapter, I examine the quality-of-care and professionalism crises and conventional attempts, especially in terms of evidence-based and patient-centered medicine, to resolve them. In contrast to these attempts, I introduce the notion of virtuous physician and briefly explore its potential...
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Virtue Theory, Ethics, and Epistemology

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 29 –57

[I examine virtue theory, in this chapter, especially in an effort to define virtue first, and then vice. After examining the nature of virtue and vice, especially from a historical perspective, I then turn to a brief discussion of contemporary virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.]
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Virtues and Vices

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 59 –105

[In this chapter, I first discuss in detail the cardinal virtues and vices, including the epistemic or intellectual virtues and vices of prudence and imprudence, followed by the ethical or moral virtues and vices of courage and cowardice, temperance and intemperance, and justice and injustice. I...
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On Caring and Uncaring

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 107 –136

[I utilize, in this chapter, the ontological virtue of caring to explicate specifically the notion of virtuous physician. Briefly, caring is a fundamental disposition in which one exhibits profound compassion or empathy for the suffering of another in order to relief that suffering. I next...
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On Prudent Love and Imprudent Lovelessness

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 137 –178

[In the first section of the chapter, I examine the notion of the compound virtue of prudent love, derived from the transformation of competence and care, and I discuss its relationship to the caring cycle and the care-competence cycle. I then follow with a section on the notion of the compound...
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Medical Stories

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 179 –212

[In this chapter, I reconstruct two medical stories from the literature that illustrate both virtuous and unvirtuous physicians and healthcare professionals. The first story is in the physician’s voice and represents virtuous clinical medicine, while the second is in the patient’s voice and...
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The Virtuous Physician and Medicine’s Crises

Marcum, James A.

Pages: 213 –234

[I utilize the notion of virtuous physician, in the concluding chapter, to address the quality-of-care and professionalism crises, particularly through the integration of EBM and PCM to form virtuous holistic medicine. I also contrast this type of medicine to the unvirtuous fragmented medicine...

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