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    Clinical Ethics Consultation in Chronic Illness: Challenging Epistemic Injustice Through Epistemic Modesty

    Leading paradigms of clinical ethics consultation closely follow a biomedical model of care. In this paper, we present a theoretical reflection on the underlying biomedical model of disease, how it shaped clin...

    Tatjana Weidmann-Hügle, Settimio Monteverde in HEC Forum (2024)

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    Vulnerable Populations, the Inverse Care Law, and the Role of Clinical Ethicists: Experiences from Switzerland

    Departing from the Swiss healthcare context and from the experience of the clinical ethics unit at a larger university hospital, this chapter discusses what “witnessing” structural vulnerability of patients ac...

    Tanja Krones, Settimio Monteverde in Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation (2022)

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    Models of Ethics Deliberation and Consultation

    In this chapter, we describe the origins of institutional healthcare ethics consultation services and the development of healthcare ethics committees in the US, Switzerland and elsewhere. We discuss some of th...

    Aimee Milliken, Settimio Monteverde, Pamela Grace in Clinical Ethics Handbook for Nurses (2022)

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    Correction to: Informal coercion during childbirth: risk factors and prevalence estimates from a nationwide survey of women in Switzerland

    Stephan Oelhafen, Manuel Trachsel, Settimio Monteverde in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2021)

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    Informal coercion during childbirth: risk factors and prevalence estimates from a nationwide survey of women in Switzerland

    In many countries, the increase in facility births is accompanied by a high rate of obstetric interventions. Lower birthrates or elevated risk factors such as women’s higher age at childbirth and an increased ...

    Stephan Oelhafen, Manuel Trachsel, Settimio Monteverde in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2021)

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    Medizinethik – Eine Einführung

    Der Umgang mit Gesundheit und Krankheit, noch mehr aber die Übergänge zwischen dem einen und dem anderen Zustand, weisen mit der Entwicklung des therapeutischen Wissens und Könnens und der Strukturen in der Ge...

    Settimio Monteverde, Tanja Krones, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Tobias Eichinger in Medizinethik (2021)

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    The Standard Account of Moral Distress and Why We Should Keep It

    In the last three decades, considerable theoretical and empirical research has been undertaken on the topic of moral distress among health professionals. Understood as a psychological and emotional response to...

    Joan McCarthy, Settimio Monteverde in HEC Forum (2018)

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    Advance Directives and the Ethos of Good Nursing Care

    Advance directives have become increasingly visible in nursing practice over the past four decades. In many countries, they have been the subject of laws containing provisions on end-of-life issues. Accordingl...

    Settimio Monteverde in Advance Directives (2014)

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    Ralf Stoecker (2010): Der Hirntod. Ein medizinethisches Problem und seine moralphilosophische Transformation

    Settimio Monteverde in Ethik in der Medizin (2011)