Clinical Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Gwen Fraser

   Pages 1-5

3. Clinical Ethics, Applied Ethics, and Theory

   • Robert M. Veatch

   Pages 7-25

4. The Skeptical Critique of Clinical Ethics

   • Robert Baker

   Pages 27-57

5. Moral Experts and Moral Expertise

   • Arthur L. Caplan

   Pages 59-87

6. Persons with Moral Expertise and Moral Experts

   • Françoise Baylis

   Pages 89-99

7. Ethical Theory and Applied Ethics

   • Ruth Macklin

   Pages 101-124

8. Bringing Codes to Newcastle

   • Benjamin Freedman

   Pages 125-139

9. Moral Problems, Moral Inquiry, and Consultation in Clinical Ethics

   • Terrence F. Ackerman

   Pages 141-160

10. Ethical Theory and Applied Ethics

    • K. Danner Clouser

    Pages 161-181

11. Applied Ethics

    • Howard Brody

    Pages 183-200

12. Philosophical Ethics and Practical Ethics

    • Barry Hoffmaster

    Pages 201-230

13. Back Matter

    Pages 231-237

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There is the world of ideas and the world of practice; the French are often for sup­ pressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed. -Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time From its inception, bioethics has confronted the need to reconcile theory and practice. At first the confrontation was purely intellectual, as writers on ethical theory (within phi­ losophy, theology, or other humanistic disciplines) turned their attention to topics from the world of medical practice. Recently the confrontation has grown more intense. The ap­ pointment of clinical ethicists in hospitals and other health­ care settings is an accelerating trend in North America. Concomitantly, those institutions involved in training peo­ ple in clinical ethics have added organized exposure to the world of practice , in the form of placement requirements, to the normal academic course load. In common with other dis­ ciplines, bioethics has begun to see clinical training as a con­ dition of didactic theory and apprenticeship.

• applied ethics
• bioethics
• clinical ethics
• ethics
• health
• morality

• University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  Barry Hoffmaster, Gwen Fraser

• McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Benjamin Freedman

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