Pragmatic Judgments in Direct Patient Care

Moral Theory at the Beginning of Clinical Ethics Consultation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-662-66818-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation? And what about this counselling is ethical? The book explains the background of the development of clinical ethics counselling. It provides new insights into serious decision-making conflicts in everyday clinical life and uncovers the disputes that followed in public. In the search for the ethical understanding of clinical ethics counselling, the book comes across previously unexplored evidence. Step by step, a system is reconstructed that reveals the shape of a significant philosophical school of thought.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleyer, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I: Birthplace USA – Clinical Ethics Consultation and Pragmatism.- Three stages in the development of clinical ethics consultation.- Balance after three stages.- Part II: A Theory of Concrete Judgment – The Influence of Pragmatism on the Idea of Clinical Ethics Consultation.- Basic features of an ethical theory of classical pragmatism.- Applied pragmatic ethics in clinical ethics consultation.- Pragmatic justification of clinical decisions – an attempt at a response.- Balance sheet and answer.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bleyer holds the Chair for Theological Ethics at the University of Passau and is the head of the master’s program in Caritas Science and of the Institute of Applied Ethics in Economics and Education (Ethik WAW). He received his PhD in Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg (2007) and wrote his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) in the field of Moral Theology at the Catholic Private University Linz (2019).