In recent times, daily, ordinary medical practices have incontrovertibly been developing
under the condition of complexity. Complexity jeopardizes the moral core of practicing …

In the field of medical virtue ethics, the concept of phronesis, or practical wisdom, plays a
crucial role. In recent years a number of important theoretical questions have been identified …

Aristotle described five intellectual virtues; this thesis sought to understand one of them in
detail-phronesis (practical wisdom). The thesis demonstrates why phronesis is a useful way …

The purpose of teaching ethics to nurses and other health and social care practitioners is not
always clear. At the extremes of the continuum of aims sit (i) the teaching of ethics as a …

Phronesis is often described as a 'practical wisdom'adapted to the matters of everyday
human life. Phronesis enables one to judge what is at stake in a situation and what means …

Background Medical ethics has recently seen a drive away from multiple prescriptive
approaches, where physicians are inundated with guidelines and principles, towards …

Phronesis has become a buzzword in contemporary medical ethics. Yet, the use of this
single term conceals a number of significant conceptual controversies based on divergent …

Modern medicine faces fundamental challenges that various approaches to the philosophy
of medicine have tried to address. One of these approaches is based on the ancient concept …

There has been much discussion about the overmedicalization of human experience and
the problems incurred by overzealous action-oriented medical care. In this paper we …

When I say ╦ phronesis Page 1 When I say ... phronesis Neville Chiavaroli & Stephen
Trumble : 52: 1005–1007 In Ancient Greece, there existed several different terms for ways of …