The Impact of Health Care

[U4-Text; Vorschau-Text s. unten] 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. [Vorschau] Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of modern societies. However, 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. [[Der Einfluss des Gesundheitswesens auf Charakterbildung, ethische Erziehung und Wertevermittlung in spätmodernen pluralistischen Gesellschaften] Pluralismus ist zum bestimmenden Merkmal moderner Gesellschaften geworden. Weiterhin prägen aber Institutionen und Organisationen sowie deren Normen unsere moralischen Verpflichtungen und unseren Charakter tiefgreifend - insbesondere die Familie, der Markt, die Medien und die Systeme von Recht, Religion, Politik, Forschung, Bildung, Gesundheitsversorgung und Verteidigung. In den theoretischen, empirischen und historischen Beiträgen dieses Bandes erörtern Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Medizin, der Medizinethik, der Theologie, der Psychologie und der Organisation des Gesundheitswesens die vielfältigen Herausforderungen, die die Veränderungen in ihren Fachgebieten für die Kommunikation und Orientierung in spätmodernen pluralistischen Gesellschaften darstellen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren kommen aus Deutschland, den USA und Australien.