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Why bioethicists fall short of connecting with clinicians

An excerpt from Rethinking Health Care Ethics. Health professionals have not been well served, or at least not well enough served, by the academic community of bioethicists -- the philosophers, theologians, lawyers, and social scientists of various sorts who have…

An excerpt from Rethinking Health Care Ethics.

Health professionals have not been well served, or at least not well enough served, by the academic community of bioethicists — the philosophers, theologians, lawyers, and social scientists of various sorts who have come to dominate, worldwide, the diverse fields of health care ethics over the last half-century. The theoretical, philosophically oriented approaches of bioethicists generally leave clinicians feeling somewhat at a …

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Why bioethicists fall short of connecting with clinicians