Listening to the Whispers: Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare

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Christine Sorrell Dinkins, Jeanne Merkle Sorrell
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2006 M07 5 - 344 pages

Listening to the Whispers gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the disciplines in the context of today's healthcare system. Diverse voices, often unheard, challenge readers to enlarge the circle of their ethical concerns and look for hidden pathways toward new understandings of ethics. Essays range from a focus on the context of corporatization and managed care environments to a call for questioning the fundamental values of society as these values silently affect many others in healthcare. Each chapter is followed by a brief essay that highlights issues useful for scholarly research and classroom discussion. The conversations of interpretive research in healthcare contained in this volume encourage readers to re-think ethics in ways that will help to create an ethical healthcare system with a future of new possibilities.

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Contents

Introduction
3
1 A Whispered Story
7
2 Corporatization and the Institutional Aspectsof Morality in Home Care
10
Out of the Danger the Saving
61
Constituting Organizational Identity in a Catholic Hospital System
69
Creating Ethical Spaces Within Healthcare Organizations
130
4 Teleology the Modern Moral Dichotomy and Postmodern Bioethics in the 21st Century
138
An Ancient Ethics for21stCentury Healthcare
184
5 Reflections of Moral Dilemmas and Patterns of Ethical Decision Making in Five ClinicalPhysical Therapists
190
Bending but Not Breaking the Rules
242
Healthcare Ethics in Diverse Societies
248
Community Caring and the Double Bind
305
Listening in Thin Places
310
Contributors
315
Index
319
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About the author (2006)

Christine Sorrell Dinkins, Ph.D., is assistant professor of philosophy at Wofford College. Jeanne Merkle Sorrell, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is professor in the College of Nursing and Health Science and Special Projects Coordinator in the Office of Healthcare Ethics at George Mason University.

Bibliographic information

TitleListening to the Whispers: Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare
Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences
EditorsChristine Sorrell Dinkins, Jeanne Merkle Sorrell
PublisherUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2006
ISBN0299216535, 9780299216535
Length344 pages
  
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