The Health Care Ethics Consultant

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Françoise E. Baylis

   Pages 1-10

3. Certification of Health Care Ethics Consultants

   • Susan Sherwin

   Pages 11-24

4. A Profile of the Health Care Ethics Consultant

   • Françoise E. Baylis

   Pages 25-44

5. “… Has Knowledge of [Interpersonal] Facilitation Techniques and Theory; Has the Ability to Facilitate [Interpersonally]… ”

   • Abbyann Lynch

   Pages 45-62

6. Feeder Disciplines

   • Michael Burgess, Eugene Bereza, Bridget Campion, Jocelyn Downie, Janet Storch, George Webster

   Pages 63-108

7. From Avocation to Vocation

   • Benjamin Freedman

   Pages 109-132

8. Liability of Health Care Ethics Consultants

   • Larry Lowenstein, Jeanne DesBrisay

   Pages 133-161

9. What Does a Health Care Ethics Consultant Look Like?

   • Michael D. Coughlin, John L. Watts

   Pages 163-188

10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-209

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The primary objective of The Health Care Ethics Con­ sultant is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem: the role and responsibilities, the education and training, and the certification and accreditation of health care ethics consultants. The principal questions addressed in this book include: Who should be considered health care ethics consultants? Whom should they advise? What should be their responsi­ bilities and what kind of training should they have? Should there be some kind of accreditation or certification program to ensure that those who call themselves ethics consultants are in fact qualified to advise, consult, research, and write in health care ethics? The distinguished authors ofthese articles are persons with diverse backgrounds, interests, presumptions, and val­ ues. Not surprisingly, therefore, diverse responses have emerged to the questions posed. Though the book's chapters are individually authored, they are informed by the group discussions that went on during active workshop sessions, and by knowledge of the contributions of others. All of the chapters meaningfully represent their consensus. This is not to say that there were no disagreements regarding specific details, but rather that there were no fundamental objections on the book's basic content among a panel of authors who share basic premises regarding the role, responsibilities, education, and certifica­ tion of health care ethics consultants.

• Ethical Issues
• Health Care Ethics
• certification
• ethics
• health
• health care
• medicine

...makes a significant contribution to the literature. It represents a critical assessment of both theoretical and practical issues facing practitioners in ethics consultation.-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

• Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Françoise E. Baylis

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