Reading Engelhardt

Tris' request for a leave that interrupted his clinical c1erkships, so that he could undertake his graduate studies in Austin. The field, not just Tris, owes Jim Knight a hearty "thank you" for his decision to approve Tris' request, which was unusual, to say the least, in the conservative world ofmedical education at the time. Whenhereturned toTulane to complete his medical degree, Tris undertook withRichardZanerthe translationofAlfred Schutz'sandThomas Luckmann's 6 The Structures of the Life-World. Tris did this work while on his clinical rotations, including obstetrics and gynecology. In between delivering babies, most of whom were delivered by medical students at New Orleans' Charity Hospital, he worked on this translation. Tris once told me that, as a medical student, he had delivered scores ofbabies alone. Ican see him sitting with a patient in the labor area or maybe in the hall, attending to her, monitoring her progress in labor and the fetus' status, and translating from German, which is his first language, as well as thatofhis children. As this translation indicates, Tris believes in texts and scholarship about texts in a way that is decidedly not post-modem. This is also plain to anyone who has read his work. Forexample, the two editions of The Foundations of Bioethies, whateverelse one might thinkofthem, are monuments ofscholar ship in the historiesofphilosophy, medicine, theology, and ideas generally, not to mention excellent primers on Texana. These books are packed with re ferences and footnotes.

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This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference `Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters direct primary attention to various aspects of Engelhardt's philosophy of medicine and bioethics as presented in emThe Foundations of Bioethics/em and emBioethics and Secular Humanism: The/em emSearch for a Common Morality/em. Among the topics treated are the economics of health care and the medical profession, the libertarian and communitarian aspects of Engelhardt's thought, the moral status of children, abortion, the moral foundations for a health care system, feminism and clinical epistemology, and the relation between secular and religious moralities. In response to the various challenges posed by the authors, Engelhardt considers the implications of the failure of the modern philosophical project, the role of reason in ethics, and the resolution of conflict among communities that do not share the same moral vision. The book will be of interest to professionals in medicine, philosophy, theology, health policy, and law, and to graduate students in those disciplines.

Inhalt
1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt's Foundations of Bioethics.- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt's Peace.- 3 Medicine's Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust.- 4 Engelhardt's Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions.- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers.- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt's Principles of Bioethics.- 7 Engelhardt's Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology.- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt's Phenomenology of Illness.- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children.- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards.- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt's Kantian Underpinnings.- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox.- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism.- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt's Secular Humanist Bioethics.- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content?.- About the Authors.- About the Editors.- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr..