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Community As Healing
Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters
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2001
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The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society. Pragmatism, on the other hand, has long sought to reconstruct ethical thought with the belief that distinctions between theory and practice, individual and society are not a priori starting points but purposeful developments of inquiry. Using insights from classic pragmatism, the author proposes reconstructive accounts of physician-patient relationships resulting in an emphasis on aiding the process of meaningful/significant living for all individuals involved in medical encounters. William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead, among others, provide discussions of human relationships which accentuate the situatedness of problems and solutions and stress the need for building shared experience in order to develop both self and community. With an insistence on a recognition of a functional concept of the self (or 'self as social product'), the author's pragmatic position illuminates the integration of self with the community and leads to a new practice in the medical encounter, based on an attitude of community as healing.
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Copyright year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1219-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7441-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
107
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
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Chapter 1: Medicine, Ethics, and Classic American Philosophy No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2: Principles and Pragmatism: Negative Considerations for Positive Beginnings No access Pages 21 - 38
Chapter 3: Autonomy as Consent: An All-Too-Passive Concept No access Pages 39 - 46
Chapter 4: Self as Situated Social Product: The Functionality of Narratives No access Pages 47 - 66
Chapter 5: Community As Healing No access Pages 67 - 82
