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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| Introduction Knowing how to say Goodbye to outdated Notions |
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III Bayesianism and game theory |
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IV Categorical imperative and hypothetical imperatives in ethics of care |
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V Game theory, economic values, and ethical values in medicine |
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VII Presentation of the chapters |
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Chapter I Critique of Autonomy |
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I The contradictions of the notion of autonomy in its classical use |
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II The game of masks of creation and consent |
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III Autonomy still contains contradictions in multiple senses |
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IV The particular distortion between the ethical notion of autonomy among caregivers and the homonymous notion of philosophers |
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V The notion of autonomy divides the individual against himself |
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VI Utilitarianism engulfs itself in the distortions of the notion of autonomy |
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VII However, that a notion is contradictory---as is the case of autonomy---is not necessarily an objection against it |
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VIII Bentham between Pascal and Lacan |
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Chapter II Is Dignity an Ethical Value beyond all Suspicion? |
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I I start by looking at some of the many contradictions that cut across it, leaving its major axis |
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II I deepen the consequences of previous divisions and consider the opportunities they offer to hypocrisy and cynicism. Or, the game of human life and its conditions |
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III What does dignity say? |
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Chapter III The Need for Utilitarianism in Ethics |
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II The sovereignty of the state as regards religions |
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III Philosophy of care and autonomy. The more or less implicit criticism that this philosophy contains the theory of principles as envisaged by Beauchamp and Childress |
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IV The philosophy of ethics in Moral Thinking |
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V Intuition and criticism |
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VI The logical treatment of principles |
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VII The fundamental question of examples |
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VIII The requirements for the calculation of preferences |
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IX The characteristics of moral judgment |
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Chapter IV Is the Value of Intimacy incompatible with Utilitarianism? |
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I One can attempt the determination of intimacy by a series of negations |
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II Jankelevitch's position |
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III The dialectic of intimacy |
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IV The articulation of principles |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index Nominum |
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Jean-Pierre Cléro is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rouen (France). Holder of the Agrégation 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 Maītre de Conférences, then Professor at the University of Rouen. He usually teaches the utilitarian ethics at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a member of many Espaces éthiques (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 Hervé and Prof. Emmanuel Hirsch). He is member of many reading committees (Revue de Synthčse, Cités, Essaim). Interested in psychoanalysis, he has written several books on Lacan.
