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John Witte, Jr.

The Impact of Health Care

Coeditor, The Impact of Health Care on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023) (with Michael Welker, Eva Winkler and Stephen Pickard)
 
Volume 9 of a 10 volume series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies.
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Description

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. However, institutions and their norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character – notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense.

In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, specialists on medicine, medical ethics, psychology, theology and health care discuss the many challenges that major transformations in their areas of expertise pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributors come from Germany, the USA and Australia.


Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the Series – Michael Welker, Eva Winkler, John Witte Jr., and Stephen Pickard
  • Introduction – Michael Welker and Eva Winkler
 
Part One: Medical Ethics Between Medicine and Economy
 
Eva C. Winkler
Time for a New Oath? The Role of the Individual Physician’s Ethos and Institutional Ethics in the Face of Economization of the Health-Care System
 
Günter Thomas
Mercy under Conditions of Scarcity and the Need for Organization; or, Where Is the Humane Ethos Located in the Health-Care System? An Outline of the Problem
 
Christine Thomas
Ethical Tensions in the Medical Treatment of Elderly Patients in Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry
 
Part Two: Ethical Impacts of Advancing Medical Research and Techniques
 
Anthony D. Ho
The Impact of Advances in Stem Cell and Genome Research on Ethical Decision-Making
 
Ruth M. Farrell
The Acceptance of Genetic Technologies by Individuals, Societies, and Health-Care Systems
 
Karla Alex and Eva C. Winkler
Ethical Discourse on Epigenetics and Genome Editing: The Risk of (Epi-)Genetic Determinism and Scientifically Controversial Basic Assumptions
 
Andreas Unterberg and Pavlina Lenga
The Impact of Advances in Surgical Techniques and Quality-of-Life Considerations on Ethical Decision-Making and Education in Neurosurgery
 
Part Three: Digital Medicine and Ethical Decisions
 
Giovanni Rubeis and Nadia Primc
Ethical Aspects of Digital Transformation in Medicine and Health Care
 
Beate Ditzen and Christian P. Schaaf
Family Decision-Making in Times of Genomic Newborn Screening
 
Part Four: Health Care: History, Education, Practice

Karen Nolte
On the History of the Nursing Ethos in Germany

Thorsten Moos
Health-Care Chaplains and Medical Ethics: Clinical and Educational Experiences
 
Gregor Etzelmüller
Medical Anthropology and Theology on Human Destiny

Peter Kirsch
Psychotherapy, Personality, and the Role of Values

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