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Open AccessClinical 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
