Listening to the Whispers

by Dinkins, Christine Sorrell; Sorrell, Jeanne Merkle

• ISBN13: 9780299216504
• ISBN10: 0299216500
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-09
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Listening to the Whispersgives 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. Outstanding Academic Title,ChoiceMagazine

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	3	(4)
Christine S. Dinkins
Jeanne M. Sorrell
A Whispered Story	7	(3)
Nancy J. Moules
Corporatization and the Institutional Aspects of Morality in Home Care	10	(51)
Tobie H. Olsan
Editors' Response: Out of the Danger, the Saving Power Grows	61	(8)
Ethics of Articulation: Constituting Organizational Identity in a Catholic Hospital System	69	(69)
Simon J. Craddock Lee
Editors' Response: Creating Ethical Spaces Within Healthcare Organizations	130	(8)
Teleology, the Modern Moral Dichotomy, and Postmodern Bioethics in the 21st Century	138	(52)
John Paul Slosar
Editors' Response: An Ancient Ethics for 21st-Century Healthcare	184	(6)
Reflections of Moral Dilemmas and Patterns of Ethical Decision Making in Five Clinical Physical Therapists	190	(58)
Bruce H. Greenfield
Editors' Response: Bending, but Not Breaking, the Rules	242	(6)
Beyond the Individual: Healthcare Ethics in Diverse Societies	248	(62)
Kathryn H. Kavanagh
Editors' Response: Community, Caring, and the Double Bind	305	(5)
An Ethics of Diversity: Listening in Thin Places	310	(5)
Jeanne M. Sorrell
Christine S. Dinkins
Contributors	315	(4)
Index	319