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Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics.

Bader, Daniel William.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics./
Author:	Bader, Daniel William.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-06A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR72077
ISBN:	9780494720776

Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics.
Bader, Daniel William.

Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics. - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2010.

Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics examines the Platonic theory of craft and shows its application to different ethical problems in medicine, both ancient and modern. I begin by elucidating the Platonic use of the term "craft" or "techne", using especially the paradigmatic craft of medicine, and explicate a number of important principles inherent in his use of the term. I then show how Plato's framework of crafts can be applied to two ancient debates. First, I show how Plato's understanding of crafts is used in discussing the definition of medicine, and how he deals with the issue of "bivalence", that medicine seems to be capable of generating disease as well as curing it. I follow this discussion into Aristotle, who, though he has a different interpretation of bivalence, has a solution in many ways similar to Plato's. Second, I discuss the relevance of knowledge to persuasion and freedom. Rhetors like Gorgias challenge the traditional connections of persuasion to freedom and force to slavery by characterizing persuasion as a type of force. Plato addresses this be dividing persuasion between sorcerous and didactic persuasion, and sets knowledge as the new criterion for freedom. Finally, I discuss three modern issues in medical ethics using a Platonic understanding of crafts: paternalism, conclusions in meta-analyses and therapeutic misconceptions in research ethics. In discussing paternalism, I argue that tools with multiple excellences, like the body, should not be evaluated independently of the uses to which the patient intends to put them. In discussing meta-analyses, I show how the division of crafts into goal-oriented and causal parts in the Phaedrus exposes the confusion inherent in saying that practical conclusions can follow directly from statistical results. Finally, I argue that authors like Franklin G. Miller and Howard Brody fail to recognise the hierarchical relationship between medical research and medicine when they argue that medical research ethics should be autonomous from medical ethics per se.

ISBN: 9780494720776Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Philosophy.

Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics.
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