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This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making. Inspired in part by Jürgen Habe
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Paul Walker · Terence Lovat
Life and Death Decisions in the Clinical Setting Moral Decision Making Through Dialogic Consensus
SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Paul Walker Terence Lovat •
Life and Death Decisions in the Clinical Setting Moral Decision Making Through Dialogic Consensus
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Paul Walker School of Medicine and Public Health The University of Newcastle Newcastle, NSW Australia
Terence Lovat School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle Newcastle, NSW Australia and University of Oxford Oxford UK
ISSN 2211-8101 SpringerBriefs in Ethics ISBN 978-981-10-4300-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4301-7
ISSN 2211-811X (electronic) ISBN 978-981-10-4301-7
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Preface
Moral decision making in clinical settings, especially around life and death decisions, has never been easy. In our current context, we see life-prolonging technological advancements racing ahead of our reflection on when to employ those advancements. Hence, decision making which aims to truly maximise the good of the patient has become ever more complex. At the same time, societies themselves have become more complex, with the largely homogenous societies of the past giving way to increasingly multicultural, multifaith ones. Hence, the relatively predictable set of values that once might have defined the stakeholders involved in difficult moral decision making has been replaced by value pluralism. As a
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