Rethinking Medical Ethics

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Seitenzahl	186
Sprache	Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2018
E-Book-Format	EPUB
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Typ	E-Book
ISBN	978-3-8382-9313-4
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“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 Jankélévitch’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. Cléro’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.”—Prof. Peter Niesen, University of Hamburg

“In line with his research published in 2011 under the title Calcul Moral (Moral Calculation) and his articles published in the Revue française d’Éthique appliquée and Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Jean-Pierre Cléro 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.”—Prof. Thierry Belleguic, Laval University, Québeq
"This publication in English is a follow up to an extensive list of publications on ethics and more specifically on the ethics of care (in French). One peculiar element of this book and its author is without any doubt that he is an advocate of utilitarianism. This is peculiar because the utilitarian ethical model has been quite strongly rejected by many ethicists and caregivers in France"—Paul Schotsmans, KU Leuven, Ethical Perspectives 26, no. 4 (2019): 699-708