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Gert, Bernard was born on October 16, 1934 in Cincinnati. Son of Max and Celia (Yarnovsky) Gert.
(An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Ph...)
An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Philosophy in Medicine, this book integrates moral philosophy with clinical medicine to present a comprehensive summary of the theory, concepts, and lines of reasoning underlying the field of bioethics. Rather than concentrating narrowly on bioethics and investigating moral philosophy only marginally, the authors provide an explicit account of common morality and show how it applies to and is modified by the realities of clinical medicine. Such broader knowledge finds its specific practical application when one attempts to resolve the more complex and difficult cases. This book does not attempt to settle all controversial matters, but rather provides an ethical framework that various parties to the dispute can accept and use as a basis for reaching agreement. Thus, the authors' main goal is to facilitate ethical discussion. Their detailed analyses of death and disease maintain the theoretical objectivity of these concepts while recognizing their central role in social and medical practices. They also provide in-depth discussions of the central concepts and issues in bioethics: competence, consent, justification for moral rule violations, and confidentiality. Paternalism, one of the most pervasive problems in clinical medicine, is accorded special attention. All these concepts have been integrated and systematically grounded within common morality. The book is richly illustrated with discussions of clinical cases. The authors explicitly compare their position with other accounts of bioethics such as principlism, casuistry, and virtue theory. Their discussion of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide clarifies and evaluates the recent legal decisions on these topics. The arguments throughout the volume stand out with characteristic clarity and cogency. A fresh and all-encompassing approach to bioethics that does not shy away from controversy, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals will interest not only students in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics courses, but also moral philosophers and bioethicists, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.
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(This book is the result of over 30 years of collaboration...)
This book is the result of over 30 years of collaboration among its authors. It uses the systematic account of our common morality developed by one of its authors to provide a useful foundation for dealing with the moral problems and disputes that occur in the practice of medicine. The analyses of impartiality, rationality, and of morality as a public system not only explain why some bioethical questions, such as the moral acceptability of abortion, cannot be resolved, but also provide a method for determining the correct answer for those occasions when a bioethical question has a unique correct answer. This new edition includes an entire chapter that has been added to address the controversial issue of abortion within the authors' distinct framework. This book presents the latest revisions of the authors' original analyses of the concepts of death and disease, analyses that have had a significant impact on the field of bioethics. It also includes an added chapter on mental disorders, where the authors' definition influenced what psychiatry classifies as a mental disorder, and so has had an impact that reveals beyond the field of bioethics. In this edition, the authors also offer a new, more developed perspective on the concept of valid or informed consent by considering what information physicians should be required to know before proposing screening, diagnostic testing, prescribing medications, or performing surgery. The book also integrates some of the important insights of the field of clinical epidemiology into its discussion of valid consent. Its account of paternalism and its justification, perhaps the most ubiquitous moral problem in medical ethics, has had considerable influence. Its discussion of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide challenges the standard views that have been put forward by both proponents and opponents of physician assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia.
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(Moral problems do not always come in the form of great so...)
Moral problems do not always come in the form of great social controversies. More often, the moral decisions we make are made quietly, constantly, and within the context of everyday activities and quotidian dilemmas. Indeed, these smaller decisions are based on a moral foundation that few of us ever stop to think about but which guides our every action. Here distinguished philosopher Bernard Gert presents a clear and concise introduction to what he calls "common morality"--the moral system that most thoughtful people implicitly use when making everyday, common sense moral decisions and judgments. Common Morality is useful in that--while not resolving every disagreement on controversial issues--it is able to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable answers to moral problems.
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(Bernard Gert's classic work Morality, in which he argues ...)
Bernard Gert's classic work Morality, in which he argues his distinctive and comprehensive moral theory, is now in its sixth edition. Gert argues that morality is an informal system that does not provide answers to every moral question but does always limit the range of morally acceptable options and so explains why some moral questions cannot be resolved. Gert describes the two-step procedure that is used in moral decisions and judgments, and he shows that moral rules cannot be understood independently of the system in which they are embedded. Although his moral theory is sophisticated, it is presented with a clarity that will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as anyone with a general interest in applied ethics. In this new edition, Gert perfects the consistency of his views by presenting his argument in greater detail; he also revises the text in light of a critical book and two symposia dedicated to his theory that have surfaced since the book's last publication. This is the definitive edition to the work that has received so much attention and acclaim.
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Gert, Bernard was born on October 16, 1934 in Cincinnati. Son of Max and Celia (Yarnovsky) Gert.
Bachelor, University Cincinnati, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1962. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Cincinnati, 2006.
Instructor philosophy Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1959-1962, assistant professor philosophy, 1962-1966, associate professor, 1966-1970, professor, 1970—2009, chairman department philosophy, 1971—1974, 1979—1981, 1998—2001, Stone professor intellectual and moral philosophy, 1981—1992, 1998—2009, Eunice and Julian Cohen professor ethics and human values, 1992-1998. Visiting associate professor philosophy Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1967-1968. Visiting professor philosophy Edinburgh University, fall 1974, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1985-1986, Nacional University de la Plata and University Buenos Aires, Argentina, fall 1995, Center Applied Philosophy Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia, 2004, 2007.
Adjunct professor psychiatry Dartmouth Medical School, since 1976. Principal investigator National Institutes of Health, 1990-1993. Research adjunct professor psychiatry University North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, since 2007.
(An updated and expanded successor to Culver and Gert's Ph...)
(Bernard Gert's classic work Morality, in which he argues ...)
(This book is the result of over 30 years of collaboration...)
(Moral problems do not always come in the form of great so...)
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Fellow National Humanities Center 2001-2002. Member American Philosophical Association, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy, Society Ethics Across the Curriculum, Association Practical and Professional Ethics, American Society Bioethics and Humanities (Lifetime Achievement award, 2006).
Married Esther Libbye Rosenstein, August 3, 1958. Children: Heather Joy, Joshua Noah.