About the Author:
Edmund D. Pellegrino is at Georgetown University. David C. Thomasma is at Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Review:
"For the Patient's Good is a superb and much needed book. . . well written and a joy to read. Pellegrino and Thomasma are, I feel, to be congratulated for having produced one of the fundamental books in the field." --Hastings Center Report
"Pellegrino and Thomasma. . .have provided help for any doctor who, at the end of a working day, wonders whether he or she has done good to the patients. For such doctors this is a book to be bought, read, and reread." --Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
"Elicits some fascinating case histories, legal problems, and familiar clinical dilemmas. . . .There is clear and sometimes alarming insight into American practice in general and the problems of litigation, the profit motive and self interest in particular. . . .The book is thought provoking,
and the ideas proposed by the authors are worthy." --British Medical Journal
"It will challenge readers at all levels of knowledge in medical ethics. It is a book that one can return to time and again for fresh and revealing insights as one's own experience in ethical dilemmas matures." --The Journal of Family Practice
"This is not an easy book to read. Those who make the effort will find much that makes the tough going worthwhile. They may even be encouraged to build on the analysis presented by these two distinguished thinkers to solve some of the many remaining riddles and paradoxes of creating an ethic
to govern the interactions of doctors and patients." --Journal of the American Medical Association
"The authors' well-knit argument is worth careful reading . . . . The proposals in this book can be seen as both plausible and achievable." --New England Journal of Medicine
"The balance between patient autonomy and physician beneficence remains a matter of dispute. Pellegrino and Thomasma, while supportive of patient autonomy, are critical of the "almost automatic" assumption made by some ethicists that autonomy, rather than beneficence, must supervene. . . .
Our modern suspicion of trust born of a sometimes righteous indignation and always associated with emotional resentment, has gone too far; for this reason, For the Patient's Good is a necessary book. --Bioethics Books
"Much can be said for Pellegrino and Thomasma's initial steps in constructing a philosophy of medicine. First, and perhaps most important, their work offers an alternative to the hegemony of autonomy that characterizes most of American medical ethics. . . . Their work also takes into account
much of the valuable philosophy of medicine currently being done in Europe and too often ignored. The history of medicine is taken seriously in their discussions of the medical profession and medical ethics, a history often overlooked by those in medical ethics. For the Patient's Good calls into
question the provincialism that too often characterizes American academia and so challenges philosophers and physicians to enter into dialogue." --Bulletin of the Park Ridge Centery
"Pelligrino and Thomasma are arguably among the most influential authors now writing about the moral nature of physicianhood. . ."--Jonathan B. Imber, Ph.D., Texas tech University,The New England Journal of Medicine
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