Reconceiving Medical Ethics

There is a crying need for thoughtful work which reexamines the now rather sclerotic assumptions of academic philosophical medical ethics. Dr Cowley and his colleagues have met this need in fine style.This is an invaluable collection! -- Richard E. Ashcroft, Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK The unique character of this edition is indeed that the authors re-examine fundamental assumptions of medical ethics... This is really a refreshing - in the sense of 'foundational' - publication... The editor has achieved what he identified as his main purpose: this edition gives a place to reflections that were and are mainly absent in Anglo-American medical ethics. Each contribution reaches this high level and is therefore an excellent added value to international medical ethics today. I am convinced that this anthology, and the many references made in the contributions, can function as a bridge to a more philosophically based and foundational medical ethics in the future. -- Paul Schotsmans, KU Leuven Ethical Perspectives