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Rethinking Health Care Ethics
Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska
2018
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in clinical health care without needing to rely on the expertise of bioethicists. The early chapters review the history of bioethics and explain how academics from outside health care came to dominate the field of health care ethics, both in professional schools and in clinical health care. The middle chapters elaborate a series of concepts, drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, that set the stage for developing a framework that builds upon the individual moral experience of health professionals, that explains the discontinuities between the demands of bioethics and the experience and perceptions of health professionals, and that enables the articulation of a full theory of clinical ethics with clinicians themselves as the foundation. Against that background, the first of three chapters on professional education presents a general framework for teaching clinical ethics; the second discusses how to integrate ethics into formal health care curricula; and the third addresses the opportunities for teaching available in clinical settings. The final chapter, "Empowering Clinicians", brings together the various dimensions of the argument and anticipates potential questions about the framework developed in earlier chapters.
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Keywords
- Adult education
- Adult education, continuous learning
- Arts-based learning
- Bio-ethics
- bioethics
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Careers guidance
- Clinical Ethics
- clinical psychology
- Decision making
- Education
- health care
- Industrial or vocational training
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Life sciences: general issues
- Lifelong Learning
- Mathematics & science
- medicine
- Mental health
- Moral Philosophy
- Nursing
- Organizational culture
- Organizational health
- Philosophy
- Postmodernism
- professional education
- Professional ethics
- Psychology
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Social psychology
- social work
- Social, group or collective psychology
- Socialization
- Society & Social Sciences
- Thinking
- Values
- Vocational education
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0830-7web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-0830-7
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