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Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories

Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner

  • The use of narrative in understanding.
  • Zaner's methodology and phenomenological approach to the more standard bioethical problems and approaches.
  • Zanerian articles articulate and explicate the use of stories and narratives.
  • Relation between theory and clinical practice.

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 997)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    • Osborne P. Wiggins, Annette C. Allen
    Pages 1-13
  3. Keeping Balance in the Face of Death

    • Richard M. Zaner
    Pages 15-25
  4. Bioethics Without Analogy

    • Robert Hunt Sprinkle
    Pages 71-85
  5. Zaner’s Generative Spirit

    • John R. Scudder Jr, Anne H. Bishop
    Pages 99-106
  6. The Ecstatic Witness

    • Rita Charon
    Pages 165-183
  7. On the Telling of Stories

    • Richard M. Zaner
    Pages 193-210
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 211-214

About this book

This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting is the focus of some of the papers, others relate his methodology and phenomenological approach to the more standard bioethical problemata and approaches. The essential questions: what then is the role of the philosopher turned medical ethicists? Is medical ethics a form of applied philosophy, or is it also a form of therapy? distinguish Zaner's phenomenology from hermeneutical philosophy.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is a compilation of essays outlining the major facets, insights, and controversies of the work to date of clinical ethicist and phenomenologist Richard M. Zaner. … Those who are interested in narrative and its role in understanding, judgment, and healing in the clinical encounter will find this book interesting … . This approach is fresh and filled with brilliant insights … . it is a boon for Zanerians or those interested in phenomenology and narrative in bioethics.” (Daniel Bustillos, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Louisville, USA

    Osborne P. Wiggins, Annette C. Allen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner

  • Editors: Osborne P. Wiggins, Annette C. Allen

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9190-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9189-5Published: 15 December 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3463-0Published: 27 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9190-1Published: 02 February 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 216

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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