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  1. Practical wisdom in complex medical practices: a critical proposal.C. M. M. L. Bontemps-Hommen, A. Baart & F. T. H. Vosman - 2019 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (1):95-105.
    In recent times, daily, ordinary medical practices have incontrovertibly been developing under the condition of complexity. Complexity jeopardizes the moral core of practicing medicine: helping people, with their illnesses and suffering, in a medically competent way. Practical wisdom (a modification of the Aristotelian phronèsis) has been proposed as part of the solution to navigate complexity, aiming at the provision of morally good care. Practical wisdom should help practitioners to maneuver in complexity, where the presupposed linear ways of operating prove to (...)
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  • Why Care for the Severely Disabled? A Critique of MacIntyre's Account.Gregory S. Poore - 2014 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39 (4):459-473.
    In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre attempts to ground the virtues in a biological account of humans. Drawing from this attempt, he also tries to answer the question of why we should care for the severely disabled. MacIntyre’s difficulty in answering this question begins with the fact that his communities of practices do not naturally include the severely disabled within their membership and care. In response to this difficulty, he provides four reasons for why we should care for the severely (...)
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  • Waiting for St. Benedict among the Ruins: MacIntyre and Medical Practice.J. P. Bishop - 2011 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (2):107-113.
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