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- Captures the dilemma often faced in moral decision-making in clinical settings
- Offers an ethical approach to the tension between technological capacity and morality in life and death decisions
- Recognizes and takes account of value pluralism and multiculturalism in medical decision making
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Ethical decisions in the clinical context
- Ethics of life and death
- Medical morality
- Moral aspects of clinical practice
- Impact of multiculturalism on medicine
- Value pluralism in clinical settings
- Proportionalism in medicine
- Proportionalism vs Principalism
- Discourse morality in clinical settings
- Discourse ethics in clinical settings
- Dialogic consensus in clinical decision-making
- Consensus in clinical decision-making
- Consensus in clinical decision-making
- Impact of medical technology on medical ethics
- Life-prolonging technologies and moral decision making
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ethical frameworks in medicine
- Deontology and life and death
- Teleology and life and death
- Virtue ethics in medicine
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Authors and Affiliations
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The University of Newcastle, School of Medicine and Public Health The University of Newcastle, New Lambton, Australia
Paul Walker
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Sch Humanities & Soc Sci, The University of Newcastle Sch Humanities & Soc Sci, Callaghan, Australia
Terence Lovat
About the authors
Paul Walker is Conjoint Associate Professor in Surgery and the Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, Faculty of Health and Medicine, the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a practicing paediatric otolaryngologist. Paul’s research examines moral decision-making in medicine, including its implications for medical education. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Ethics Committee, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology (President-elect), the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, the Australian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and the Australian Association of Philosophy.
Terence Lovat is Emeritus Professor and Postgraduate Theology Convenor in the School of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK. Terry is a former Pro Vice
-Chancellor, Dean and Chair of the University’s Human Research Ethics Committee. He has served on the Board of the Australian Council of Deans of Education, including as President, as an Executive member of the Deans of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities, on the Executive of the NSW Teacher Education Council, including as President, on the inaugural Board of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (later ALTC) and the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy. Terry teaches and researches in the discipline areas of philosophy, religion and theology, ethics and education, and has a particular interest in matters of Islamic versus Judaeo-Christian theology, religion, ethics and values in their application to education, moral philosophy and bioethics. His earlier work (with Mitchell and Kerridge), Bioethics and Clinical Ethics for Health Care Professionals (1996), became a standard text in many medical and healthcare training programs.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life and Death Decisions in the Clinical Setting
Book Subtitle: Moral decision making through dialogic consensus
Authors: Paul Walker, Terence Lovat
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4301-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4300-0Published: 27 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4301-7Published: 20 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 68
Topics: Bioethics, Medical Education, Premedical Education, Moral Philosophy