The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral
conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate …

In this paper we introduce narrative and hermeneutical perspectives to clinical ethics
support services (CESS). We propose a threefold consideration of 'theory'and show how it is …

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!" This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical
decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not …

In healthcare practice, patients and their caregivers can sometimes be confronted with
complex and difficult problems. The situation confronting Jane and Phyllis in the case …

Objectives Upon reading and considering the content of this chapter, the reader should be
able to: 1. Explain the family of related concepts to which the terms 'ethics' and 'morality'refer …

The goal of this qualitative grounded theory study was to develop a model to understand the
role of ethics in health care administrators' decision-making process. Health care …

When clients and health care providers differ in their understanding of what is right or wrong,
an ethical dilemma may arise. Such dilemmas occur in everyday clinical practice. Health …

There is very little literature on the actual decision-making frameworks used by general
practitioners with respect to ethical issues and virtually none on the impact of personal …

The problem of ethical consultations in the clinical setting should be reasonable, but it
cannot be reduced to reason and philosophical theory alone. I will argue that emotions are …

Background: Ethical dilemmas are an integral part of medicine. Whether physicians actually
feel that they have made ethically problematic treatment decisions or choices in their work is …