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1. Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters, by D. Micah Hester. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 105 pp. $18.95

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Wayne Shelton

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Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Pragmatism, Health (social science), Psychoanalysis, Patient autonomy, Health Policy, media_common.quotation_subject, Sociology, Bioethics, Theology, media_common
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In Community as Healing , Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics and H. Tristram Engelhardt in The Foundations of Bioethics are inadequate. As he states

Published
2004

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