Paul Walker

LIFE & DEATH DECISIONS IN THE

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This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making. Inspired in part by Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory of morality and principles of communicative action, the book offers a proportionist approach as a way of balancing out the wisdom in traditional frameworks, set in the actual reality of the clinical situation at hand. Putting this approach into practice requires having a conversation, a dialogue or a discourse, with collaboration amongst all the stakeholders. The aim o… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lovat, Terence

ISBN: 978-981-10-4300-0
EAN: 9789811043000
Produktnummer: 22347345
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 68 S.
Masse: H23.9 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.0 cm 147 g
Auflage: 2017
Gewicht: 147

Über den Autor

Paul Walker is Conjoint Associate Professor in Surgery and the Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, Faculty of Health and Medicine, the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a practicing paediatric otolaryngologist. Paul's research examines moral decision-making in medicine, including its implications for medical education. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Ethics Committee, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology (President-elect), the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, the Australian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and the Australian Association of Philosophy.Terence Lovat is Emeritus Professor and Postgraduate Theology Convenor in the School of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK. Terry is a former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean and Chair of the University's Human Research Ethics Committee. He has served on the Board of the Australian Council of Deans of Education, including as President, as an Executive member of the Deans of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities, on the Executive of the NSW Teacher Education Council, including as President, on the inaugural Board of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (later ALTC) and the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy. Terry teaches and researches in the discipline areas of philosophy, religion and theology, ethics and education, and has a particular interest in matters of Islamic versus Judaeo-Christian theology, religion, ethics and values in their application to education, moral philosophy and bioethics. His earlier work (with Mitchell and Kerridge), Bioethics and Clinical Ethics for Health Care Professionals (1996), became a standard text in many medical and healthcare training programs.