Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 380 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 380 g
ISBN: 978-1-394-29129-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
A four-decade practitioner's guide to the work of ethics consulting
Ethics consultants are now a common fixture across a broad range of professions and occupations. Widespread in hospitals, ethicists also regularly assist journalists, businesses, government workers, and academics. Being an Ethicist provides a first-person perspective on the issues such ethicists face, including whether and how they provide recommendations, as well as the skills and demeanors needed to be most effective.
Based on Christopher Meyers’s four decades as a professor, ethics center director, clinical ethicist, and consultant, the book is part memoir, part practice guide. Building upon two provocative positions—that well-trained consultants possess genuine expertise in ethics decision-making and that they bear a duty to advocate at case, institutional, and social levels—it highlights the intellectual, political, and emotional demands ethicists routinely face. To meet those demands, Meyers explains, ethicists need theoretical grounding, qualitative empirical methods, political savvy, and complex ethics reasoning. Through realistic scenarios, Being an Ethicist captures the work’s many challenges and the emotional resilience it demands.
Readers will also find: - An accessible narrative style that blends rigorous analysis with engaging personal anecdotes from a wide-ranging career in applied ethics
- Strategies for activist ethics practice, including advocating for improved decision-making at case, organizational, and broader social levels
- Case studies drawn from clinical ethics, journalism, and academic contexts that reveal the real-world complexity of consultation work
- Analysis of what constitutes ethics expertise and how consultants can develop and defend their professional standing within institutional structures
- Guidance on building emotional resilience for the psychological demands that ethics consulting places on practitioners across diverse professional settings
Written for ethics practitioners—including compliance officers, health care ethics committee members, and graduate students in related professional programs—Being an Ethicist also serves advanced undergraduates in philosophy. Its accessible, case-rich style makes it valuable to anyone interested in what it means to do ethics work.
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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvi
Chapter One Introduction to the Role and to Ethics Reasoning 1
The Emergence of Practical Ethics 7
What Is Ethics? 11
Messy, Messy, Messy 22
Chapter Two Levels of Ethics Work: Micro, Meso, and Macro Problems and Solutions 28
A First Explanation of Ethics Work 32
Levels of Ethics Work 36
Overview of the Process 38
Chapter Three Expertise and Activism 51
Ethics Expertise Explained 56
Ethics Expertise Defended 62
Activism 71
Activist Strategies 87
Chapter Four Cultural Awareness, Independence, and Process 91
Culturally Attuned Independence 91
Conflict of Interest: Incidental and Structural 96
Managing Structural COI 104
A Case Consultation Process 110
Chapter Five A Deeper Dive into the Practice of Ethics Consulting 132
Why Theory 133
Theory's Role in Consultations 140
What, in Addition to Theory? 148
Ethnography and Structural Analysis 155
Skills, Training, and Demeanor 160
Chapter Six New and Emerging Issues in Ethics Consulting 174
AI and Societal Transformation 176
Medicine's Changing Treatment Methods 183
Journalism in the Face of Economic and Ideological Forces 187
Climate Change 191
Chapter Seven "You Never Call on Easy Cases" 194
A Sister as a Surrogate 200
The Drowning Photo 201
Why Be an Ethicist? 205
Conclusion 210
Appendix A: Acronyms 211
References 212
Index 224
