title: Hermeneutical clinical ethics: a commentary.
abstract: Essays by Thomasma and ten Have recommend hermeneutical clinical ethics. The use Thomasma makes of hermeneutics is not radical enough because it leaves out basic interpretation of clinical practice and focuses narrowly on ethical principles and rules. Ten Have, while failing to notice that the hyperreality of clinical ethics is a feature of all language, rightly distinguishes four characteristic parameters of a thoroughgoing interpretive clinical ethics: experience, attitudes and emotions, community, and ambiguity. Suggestions are made for implementing hermeneutical ethics in clinical teaching.
authors.affiliation: Division of Education, American Academy of Neurology, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Daniel
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D032764:Casuistry; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003256:Community Participation; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D004644:Emotions; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004989:Ethics; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007802:Language; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D033262:Narration; D012945:Social Values; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods