Bioethics: Ancient themes in contemporary issues/ M.G. Kuczewski

I The Character of Medical and Ethical Knowledge 1
1 Remembering the Hippocratics: Knowledge, Practice, and Ethos of
Ancient Greek Physician-Healers 3
Robert Bartz
2 Is Medicine Art, Science, or Practical Wisdom? Ancient and
Contemporary Reflections 31
Ronald Polansky
3 Phronesis and the Misdescription of Medicine: Against The
Medical School Commencement Speech 57
Kathryn Montgomery
4 Aristotle, Phronesis^ and Postmodern Bioethics 67
David Thomasma
5 Confessions of an Unrepentant Sophist 93
Tod Chambers
6 Philosophical Therapy, Ancient and Modern 109
Julia E. Annas
II The Heuristic Value of Classical Approaches 129
7 Thrasymachus and Managed Care: How Not to Think about the
Craft of Medicine 131
Alex John London
8 Potentiality and Persons: An Aristotelian Perspective 155
Christopher Megone
9 Can Communitarianism End the Shrill and Interminable Public
Debates? Abortion as a Case-in-Point 179
Mark G. Kuczewski
10 Classical and Modern Reflections on Medical Ethics and the Best
Interests of the Sick Child 193
Daryl M. Tress
11 Facing Death Like a Stoic: Epictetus on Suicide in the Case of
Illness 229
Christopher E. Cosans
12 Euthanasia and the Physician's Role: Reflections on Some Views in
the Ancient Greek Tradition 251
Georgios Anagnastopoulos