Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models -- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age -- The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient -- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society -- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- Toward Clinical Bioethics Integrating “Internalmorality” and “External Morality” -- “A Helping and Caring Profession”: Medicine as a Normative Practice -- The Goals of Medicine in Relation to the Subjectivisation of Health and Rationalisation of Health Care Institutions -- Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness -- The Right to Choose One’s Health -- The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine -- Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources -- Bioethical Judgment: Epistemological Statute and Institutional Context -- Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine -- For an Ethical Function in Hospitals -- The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees.

A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality") Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.