In our technologized, bureaucratized, and corporatized medical system, the relationship between the clinician and the patient stands like a fragile flower buffeted by a storm. With insight and wide-ranging scholarship, Alfred Tauber analyzes how our reliance on patient autonomy must be tempered by a moral intimacy between the patient and the healer. In doing so, he offers an erudite yet deeply empathetic prescription for restoring our most precious medical resource: the doctor-patient relationship. -- Paul Root Wolpe, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania A philosophy of medicine has belatedly been recognized as essential to any coherent system of bioethics. In its formative stages, no single ethical system is entirely dominant. Using autonomy as a thread, Tauber takes us through the maze and proposes a syncretic approach which should interest anyone seeking more than a simple formula for decision making. -- Edmund D. Pellegrino, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
Alfred I. Tauber is the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.
Tauber's mission is to correct the way the law, as well as its
bioethicist and managed-care enablers, have shortchanged the moral
character of medicine....[and] to turn the prevailing concept of
patient autonomy on its head by getting physicians to act on their
moral duties to their patients...The resulting book is impressively
referenced and written and is an intellectually elegant exercise in
moral philosophy.
*The New England Journal of Medicine*
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