Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories [electronic resource] : Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner /
Wiggins, Osborne P.editor.
Allen, Annette C.editor.
This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting, is the focus of some of the papers. Others relate his methodology and phenomenological approach to the more standard bioethical problems and approaches. The essential questions: What is the role of the phenomenological philosopher turned medical ethicist? Is medical ethics a form of applied philosophy, or is it also a form of therapy? What kind of “ethics” emerges from a careful narrative rendering of clinical situations?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Osborne P. Wiggins and Annette C. Allen -- 2. Keeping balance in the face of death / Richard M. Zaner -- 3. Richard Zaner on transcendentality, eidos and phantasy / Ronald R. Cox -- 4. The limits of biomedical ethics and the specific role of phenomenology in biomedical ethics / Thomas Nenon -- 5. Richard Zaner and "standard" medical ethics / Stephen Hanson -- 6. Bioethics without analogy / Robert Hunt Sprinkle -- 7. Phenomenological nursing in schutzian perspective / Lester Embree -- 8. Zaner's generative spirit / John R. Scudder and Anne H. Bishop -- 9. Integrity and the moral Gestalt : Zaner tells his mother's story / Denise M. Dudzinksi -- 10. Between and beyond : medicine and narrative in Dick Zaner's phenomenology / Hillel Braude -- 11. Fardels of the heart : obesity and the unbearable heaviness of being / Paul A. Komesaroff -- 12. The philosopher as ethicist, the ethicist as storyteller / Arthur W. Frank -- 13. The ecstatic witness / Rita Charon -- 14. A story tell'ers story : Richard Zaner as hero (HĒ row) -- 15. On the telling of stories / Richard M. Zaner.
This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting, is the focus of some of the papers. Others relate his methodology and phenomenological approach to the more standard bioethical problems and approaches. The essential questions: What is the role of the phenomenological philosopher turned medical ethicist? Is medical ethics a form of applied philosophy, or is it also a form of therapy? What kind of “ethics” emerges from a careful narrative rendering of clinical situations?
Medical ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Philosophy and medicine