Revitalizing Health Care Ethics, by Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska, is now available as a free, open access resource for bioethicists and clinicians. This new book from Palgrave Macmillan is an attempt to understand the gap between the grounded, particularistic, fact-laden world of clinicians and the more abstract, principle-, rule-, or goal-oriented world of bioethicists, legal scholars, and policy specialists. The book looks carefully at professional education and training in health care and traces out the consequences for how health care clinicians (in all fields) understand their work and how they identify and respond to situations involving clinical ethics.
As noted in the Foreword by Anthony Korner of the University of Sydney Medical School, the book was written “for clinicians, by clinicians;” it is meant to be a helpful resource for health care students and trainees and for clinicians at all levels. More broadly, however, the book endeavors to understand clinical ethics in the context of health care professionals’ lifelong psychological, social, and professional development in an attempt to help bioethicists and others understand their own challenges in trying to communicate with, make themselves useful to, and establish policies for clinicians faced with real-world ethical challenges.
