title: What kind of doing is clinical ethics?
abstract: This paper discusses the importance of Richard M. Zaner's work on clinical ethics for answering the question: what kind of doing is ethics consultation? The paper argues first, that four common approaches to clinical ethics -- applied ethics, casuistry, principlism, and conflict resolution cannot adequately address the nature of the activity that makes up clinical ethics; second, that understanding the practical character of clinical ethics is critically important for the field; and third, that the practice of clinical ethics is bound up with the normative commitments of medicine as a therapeutic enterprise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioethics/ NA10, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. agichg@ccf.org
authors.forename: George J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Agich
mesh_terms: D028663:Ethical Theory; D033061:Ethics Consultation / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000941:ethics; D010686:Philosophy, Medical