The University of Texas at Dallas
Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

Public Forums on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

Presents

" Patient Choice and Physician Conscience: Collaboration or Conflict?"

The most significant factor in the relationships of physicians and patients in the last half century has been the shift from physician authority to patient authority.  That shift in recent years has produced a growing tension between the patient's desires and demands and the physician's personal and professional conscience.  Where is this
conflict taking us?  Is it in the patient's interests?  How can patient freedom to choose and the doctor's conscience be balanced?

Edmund Pellegrino, President’s Council on Bioethics – Edmund Pellegrino is the author or co-author of nineteen books and the founding editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Pellegrino was the former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

Coming soon...Collection of Dr. Pellegrino's essays in the philosophy
of medicine, medical humanities and bioethics:

The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader (University of Notre Dame Press, March 2008)
Edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and
Fabrice Jotterand (UT Dallas faculty member)

Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass
original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place
humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good,
and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care.

In this anthology, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand
have created a rich presentation of Pellegrino’s thought and its
development....

Click here for a sneak peek and order your copy now.