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Responsibility after the apparent end: 'following-up' in clinical ethics consultation.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21790695     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Clinical ethics literature typically presents ethics consultations as having clear beginnings and clear ends. Experience in actual clinical ethics practice, however, reflects a different characterization, particularly when the moral experiences of ethics consultants are included in the discussion. In response, this article emphasizes listening and learning about moral experience as core activities associated with clinical ethics consultation. This focus reveals that responsibility in actual clinical ethics practice is generated within the moral scope of an ethics consultant's activities as she or he encounters the unique and specific features that emerge from interactions with a specific patient, or family, or practitioner within a given situation and over time. A long-form narrative about an ethics consultant's interactions is interwoven with a more didactic discussion to highlight the theme of responsibility and to probe questions that arise regarding follow-up within the practice of clinical ethics consultation.
Authors:
Stuart G Finder; Mark J Bliton
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Bioethics     Volume:  25     ISSN:  1467-8519     ISO Abbreviation:  Bioethics     Publication Date:  2011 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-07-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8704792     Medline TA:  Bioethics     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  413-24     Citation Subset:  E; IM    
Copyright Information:
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Affiliation:
Center for Healthcare Ethics, Chief of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Co-Chair of the Bioethics Committee, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California (USA) Department of Medicine (Medical Ethics), with appointments in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
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