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Rethinking Health Care Ethics by Stephen R Scher; Kasia Kozlowska is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 chapter

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Author

Stephen R Scher; Kasia Kozlowska

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811308291

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Education, Science