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Chapter 8 - A Method of Consultation

from Section 2 - Consultation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

By
D. Micah Hester
Edited by
D. Micah Hester  and
Toby L. Schonfeld
D. Micah Hester
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine
Toby L. Schonfeld
Affiliation:
National Center for Ethics in Health Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs
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Summary

As noted in Chapter 7, most clinical ethics consultations stimulate moral reflection on different aspects of the case at hand. Moral reflection is an important and complex process. It aims at better understanding morally challenging situations and providing insight and direction for morally acceptable responses to those challenges.

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Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees , pp. 67 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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References

Jonsen, AR, Siegler, M, Winslade, WJ (2015). Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8th ed. New York: McGraw Hill.Google Scholar
National Center for Ethics in Health Care. (2015). Ethics Consultation: Responding to Ethics Questions in Health Care, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: US Department of Veterans Affairs.Google Scholar
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Spike, J (2012). Ethics consultation process. In Hester, DM and Schonfeld, TL, eds., Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees. Cambridge University Press, 41–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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