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Competency

A Study of Informal Competency Determinations in Primary Care

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

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  2. Earl E. Shelp

    1. Foundation for Interfaith Research and Ministry, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 39)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Clinical Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Judging Competence: When the Psychiatrist Need, or Need Not, Be Involved

      • James A. Knight
      Pages 3-28

    3. Informal Judgments of Competence and Incompetence

      • Edmund D. Pellegrino
      Pages 29-45

  3. Reexamining Concepts of Competence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Competence

      • Tom L. Beauchamp
      Pages 49-77

    3. Judgments of Incompetence and Their Moral Presuppositions

      • Edmund L. Pincoffs
      Pages 79-89

  4. Fashioning Law and Public Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Competence: At The Intersection of Law, Medicine, and Philosophy

      • E. Haavi Morreim
      Pages 93-125

    3. The Geography of Competency

      • John A. Robertson
      Pages 127-148

    4. Medical Treatment Decisions and Competency in the Eyes of the Law: A Brief Survey

      • Patricia D. White, Susan Hankin Denise
      Pages 149-164

  5. Case Studies: Seeking Insight From Application

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Competency Judgments: Case Studies From the Internist’s Perspective

      • Eugene V. Boisaubin
      Pages 167-177

    3. Competency Judgments: Case Studies From The Psychiatrist’s Perspective

      • Mark Perl
      Pages 179-184

    4. Competency Judgments: Case Studies in Moral Perspective

      • Edwin R. Dubose Jr., Earl E. Shelp
      Pages 185-194

  6. Commentary and Critique: Another Look at Concepts of Competence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. The Competency of Definitions of Competency

      • Harold Y. Vanderpool
      Pages 197-210

    3. Judgments About Patient Competence: Cultural and Economic Antecedents

      • Virginia Abernethy
      Pages 211-226

    4. Patient Freedom and Competence in Health Care

      • Stephen Wear
      Pages 227-236

    5. Breaking Up The Shell Game of Consequentialism: Incompetence — Concept and Ethics

      • Edmund L. Erde
      Pages 237-252
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About this book

Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work. Such has been the case with regard to this volume. In 1984, the Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues held a conference with the title 'When are Competent Patients Incompetent?' with the support of the Texas Committee for the Humanities, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Assistance was provided by both Baylor College of Medicine and the Institute of Religion. This conference evoked a con­ siderable interest in examining further the moral status of competency determinations in the clinical setting. This interest is realized in this volume, which now affords us an opportunity to thank all those individ­ uals who made the conference possible, only some of whom are acknowledged in this Preface. In particular, we wish to express our gratitude to Baruch A. Brody, Rebecca Dresser, the Honorable Jerome Jones, H. Steven Moffic, Margery W. Shaw, Eleanor Tinsley, and Albert Van HeIden. The volume took its shape through the labors of Earl Shelp and Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, who inspired the further evolution of the papers presented at the conference and attracted contributions from individuals who had not attended. Earl Shelp and Mary Ann Gardell Cutter have produced a volume following extensive reflection and dialogue; they were ably assisted in the final preparation of the manu­ script by Thomas J. Bole III and George Khushf, to whom special thanks are due.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

    Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

  • Foundation for Interfaith Research and Ministry, USA

    Earl E. Shelp

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Competency

  • Book Subtitle: A Study of Informal Competency Determinations in Primary Care

  • Editors: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Earl E. Shelp

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3614-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1304-5Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5603-8Published: 22 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3614-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 290

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Psychiatry, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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