| Bioethics Mediation Subjects: Role Playing.; Professional-Family Relations.; Negotiating.; Ethics Consultation.; Bioethical Issues.; Medical ethics.; Mediation.; Medical care; Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of communication and disadvantages those lacking power and position, such as immigrants, the poor, and nonprofessionals. This book gives clinical ethics consultants, palliative care providers, and physicians, nurses, and other medical staff the tools they need to understand and manage conflict while respecting the values of patients and family members.
Carol B. Liebman is Clinical Professor at Columbia Law School, where she is the director of the Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic and the Negotiation Workshop. Nancy Neveloff Dubler is Senior Associate at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and Professor Emerita of Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She cofounded the Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities in 1994 with David Rothman of Columbia University. She is the Consultant for Ethics for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation's largest public hospital system. |