Main description:

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation? And what about this counselling is ethical? The book explains the background of the development of clinical ethics counselling. It provides new insights into serious decision-making conflicts in everyday clinical life and uncovers the disputes that followed in public. In the search for the ethical understanding of clinical ethics counselling, the book comes across previously unexplored evidence. Step by step, a system is reconstructed that reveals the shape of a significant philosophical school of thought.

Contents:

Introduction.- Part I: Birthplace USA - Clinical Ethics Consultation and Pragmatism.- Three stages in the development of clinical ethics consultation.- Balance after three stages.- Part II: A Theory of Concrete Judgment - The Influence of Pragmatism on the Idea of Clinical Ethics Consultation.- Basic features of an ethical theory of classical pragmatism.- Applied pragmatic ethics in clinical ethics consultation.- Pragmatic justification of clinical decisions - an attempt at a response.- Balance sheet and answer.