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A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research - Voices and Visions (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research - Voices and Visions (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 60
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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 imprecision and 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.
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