The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn.

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Pellegrino, Edmund D. The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008; www.undpress.nd.edu.

This volume is composed of a selection from Dr. Pellegrino's corpus of writings on medical ethics. It is aimed at providing a rich presentation of fundamental issues in the reflective consideration of medicine. To date, these essays have been unavailable in one work. The collection integrates essays scattered among various journals spanning a period of over a quarter of a century. This reader provides essays on philosophical foundations of...

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