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- The only book to provide details on the actual practice of clinical ethics consultation
- Addresses issues from with a history of medicine perspective
- Connects current issues in genetics with the rest of the book’s themes: trust, responsibility, vulnerability, nature of medicine
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 60)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of the health professional, along with professional and individual responsibility. It emphasizes several themes fundamental to ethics and health care: (1) the work of ethics requires strict focus on the specific situational understanding of each involved person. (2) Moral issues, at least those intrinsic to each clinical encounter, are presented solely within the contexts of their actual occurrence; therefore, ethics must not only be practical but empirical in its approach. (3) Each particular situation is in its own way imprecise and uncertain and the different types and dimensions of imprecisionand uncertainty are critical for everyone involved. (4) Finally, medicine and health care more broadly are governed by the effort to make sense of the healer’s experiences with the patient, whose own experiences and interpretations are ingredient to what the healer seeks to understand and eventually treat. In addition to providing a way to develop ethical considerations in clinical life and research projects, the book proposes that narratives provide the finest way to state and grapple with these themes and issues, whether in classrooms or real-life situations. It concludes with a prospective analysis of newly emerging issues presented by and within the new genetics, which, together within a focus on the phenomenon of birth, leads to an clearer understanding of human life.
Reviews
“In this book, the author consolidates and elaborates on the writings from his decades-long career as a philosopher in clinical ethics, providing a much-needed phenomenological exploration of important issues in clinical ethics. … The intended audience includes both students and veterans in the amorphous field that the author refers to as clinical ethics, medical humanities, or bioethics. For experienced bioethicists, this book does a commendable job of reminding readers of the various life cycles this new field has already undergone.” (Michelle Bach, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Primary, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Richard M. Zaner
About the author
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research
Book Subtitle: Voices and Visions
Authors: Richard M. Zaner
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18332-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18331-2Published: 25 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38251-7Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18332-9Published: 11 June 2015
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 195
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Sociology, general