The Impact of Health Care

on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies

edited by Michael Welker, Eva Winkler, John Witte Jr. and Stephen Pickard

Book cover: The Impact of Health Care

Extent: 204 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Medicine, Religious Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2023)

ISBN: 9783374073047

Price: $39.00

In stock

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of many modern societies. Not only a plurality of individual and social claims and activities gain impacts on societal life. A creative pluralism of institutions and their norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character – notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense. In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, specialists on medicine, medical ethics, psychology, theology and health care discuss the many challenges that major transformations in their areas of expertise pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributors come from Germany, the USA and Australia.

  • Edited by Stephen Pickard
  • Edited by Michael Welker
  • Edited by Eva Winkler
  • Edited by John Witte Jr