Book Review: Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freedom
Reasoning in Medicine strikes a good balance between the theoretical and the practical, between the abstract and the concrete. It continually illustratesthe various conceptual aspects by reference back to the individual case study: Mrs. Halprin, her disease, her relating of symptoms to her physicians and their response to this. To the "artistdiagnostician" who believes that his judgment is essentially based on intuition and experience alone, elements never denied by the authors , the book will have little to say. But to all those physicians and philosophers who believe that beneath the surface of such judgments lie extraordinarily complex, if implicit , patterns of reasoning, the book is a commendable effort to unpack and elucidate those patterns.