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Rethinking Medical Ethics: Concepts and Principles (Studies in Medical Philosophy): 4

Rethinking Medical Ethics: Concepts and Principles (Studies in Medical Philosophy): 4

by Friedrich Luft (Editor), Friedrich Luft (Editor), Alexander Gungov (Editor), Jean-Pierre Clero (Author)

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In this unique study, Jean-Pierre Clero examines medical ethics from a philosophical perspective. Based on the thoughts of great philosophers, he develops a theory of medical ethics that focuses on the values of intimacy.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 188
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: ibidem
Published: 30 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 3838211944
ISBN 13: 9783838211947

Media Reviews
In line with his research published in 2011 under the title Calcul Moral (Moral Calculation) and his articles published in the Revue fran aise d' thique appliqu e and Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Jean-Pierre Cl ro here deepens the critical inquiry he has made into a few traditional categories of ethics, such as 'person' or 'dignity'. The author wonders what categories could be substituted for those that are no longer appropriate, reserving here the benefit of the notion of 'intimacy'. The originality of this book lies in the fact that a Francophone author speaks in English to an Anglophone public for whom utilitarianism is an obvious possibility of ethics: is it to show this audience aspects of Francophone ethics that are most often missed and on which it could draw to enrich its analyses? Or is it to convince Francophone researchers who read English that they could make more use of classical, modern, and contemporary Anglophone authors, a less Kantian or post-Kantian turn? It is in any case on the border between these two questions that each chapter of this sharp and stimulating book has been written.--Thierry Belleguic, Laval University
This provocative volume extends the precise but narrow confines of Jeremy Bentham's ethical thought through an unlikely combination with contemporary game theory, the psychoanalytical categories of Jacques Lacan, and Vladimir Jank l vitch's philosophy of the ineffable. Denouncing Kantian moral notions like autonomy or dignity as 'fictitious' and 'fallacious', it makes a case for prioritising the value of intimacy in ethical decision-making. Cl ro's 'Investigation' shows how a broad-minded utilitarianism proves surprisingly congenial to the promotion of intimacy in relations of care, inside and outside of medical contexts.--Peter Niesen, University of Hamburg
Author Bio
Jean-Pierre Clero is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rouen (France). Holder of the Agregation de philosophie, of a Thesis about La philosophie des passions chez David Hume and of an HDR that was the first fragment of a philosophy of fictions. First Junior Lecturer to Nanterre (Paris X), he became Maitre de Conferences, then Professor at the University of Rouen. He usually teaches the utilitarian ethics at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a member of many Espaces ethiques (CHU of Rouen, CHR of Le Rouvray, CHU of Saint Germain en Laye). In Paris, he works with two Researchers in Ethics of Medicine (Prof. Christian Herve and Prof. Emmanuel Hirsch). He is member of many reading committees (Revue de Synthese, Cites, Essaim). Interested in psychoanalysis, he has written several books on Lacan.