Practicing Medicine and Ethics : Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care (Hardcover)

1. Medicine as a goal-directed, moral practice; 2. Virtue ethics; 3. Practical wisdom in medicine; 4. Conscience and its relation to practical wisdom; 5. The authority, fallibility, and normative reach of conscience; 6. Conscience as integrity; 7. The challenge and inescapability of religious pluralism; 8. Implications of moral pluralism for public dialogue and professional practice; 9. Conscientious objection and conscientious practice; 10. An integrity-centered framework for practical wisdom in medicine.