Full Description
Being Beheld examines the techniques we use to approach ethical decisions in healthcare, arguing that ethical decision making in healthcare ought to be a work of conscience searching for a patient's good, rather than merely the deployment of correct techniques or methods. Offering a fresh analysis of both practical ethics and its methodology, with sustained attention on today's most popular clinical ethics methods, the book alternates from on-the-ground problems to theory and back again. The central claim is that a good ethics technique should mirror the eucharistic liturgy, which facilitates encounter, reciprocity, and humility. The book is a work in practical ethics, offering students a complete reorientation of ethics from either powerless or power-grab to participation in the good of the other. In short, the search for a patient's good should be an inherent aspect of every clinical encounter.
Offering case studies and lucid discussions of the current state of health care, Being Beheld is instructive to anyone who teaches, studies, or works in the areas of clinical ethics and health care.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prelude: Clinical Ethics and Standardization
Part 1: Standardized Clinical Ethics Consultation Techniques
Chapter 1: What is a Technique?
Heidegger on Techne
Heidegger's Techne Within the Philosophy of Technology
Techno-Ontology: Challenging-Forth in Clinical Ethics Consultation
Chapter 2: What Does a Technique Do?
Non-Identical Repetition
Challenging-Forth and Identical Repetition
Encounter and Being
Ersatz Liturgies
Chapter 3: The Four Boxes Method, Clinical Pragmatism, Bioethics Mediation, and the VA's CASES Method
The Four Boxes Method
Clinical Pragmatism
Bioethics Mediation
A Note on the ASBH's Facilitation Standards
The VA's CASES Method
Chapter 4: Richard Zaner's Phenomenological Method
Zaner's Phenomenological Method
Foucault's Critique of Phenomenology and Other Kantian Philosophies
Phenomenology's Revealing and Concealing
Interlude: What Kind of Doing is Clinical Ethics Consultation?
CEC and the Virtue of Phronesis
Locally Building and Evaluating Techniques
Part 2: Practical Ethics as Liturgical Activity
Chapter 5: The Liturgy's Participatory Ontology
Liturgical Ontological Revealing
What Participatory Ontology Does Not Mean: Rejecting Pantheism
Practical Ethics with a Participatory Ontology
Chapter 6: Practices of Participation, Not Power: Clinical Ethics Consultation Techniques in a Liturgical Stance
Some Features of a Liturgical Stance
Summary
Postlude: An ASBH Case in a Liturgical Stance
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