In this Book
- Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
Conflicts come in different guises, and the key to successful resolution is early identification and intervention. Every bioethics mediator needs to be prepared with skills to listen, "level the playing field," identify individual interests, explore options, and help craft a "principled resolution" -- a consensus that identifies a plan aligned with accepted ethical principles, legal stipulations, and moral rules and that charts a clear course of future intervention.
The organization of the book makes it ideal for teaching or as a handbook for the practitioner. It includes actual cases, modified to protect the privacy of patients, providers, and institutions; detailed case analyses; tools for step-by-step mediation; techniques for the mediator; sample chart notes; and a set of actual role plays with expert mediator and bioethics commentaries. The role plays include:
- discharge planning for a dying patient
- an at-risk pregnancy
- HIV and postsurgical complications in the ICU
- treatment for a dying adolescent
- dialysis and multiple systems failure
Expanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- Part I. A Framework for Understanding Bioethics Mediation
- 1. Why Mediation?
- pp. 3-20
- Part II. A Practical Guide to Bioethics Mediation
- 4. The Stages of Bioethics Mediation
- pp. 43-72
- Part III. Chart Notes
- Part IV. Case Analyses
- 11. An At-Risk Pregnancy: A Role-Play
- pp. 173-178
- 14. She Didn't Mean It: A Role-Play
- pp. 197-202
- 15. Don't Tell Mama: A Role-Play
- pp. 203-211
- Part VI. Annotated Transcripts of Bioethics Mediation Role-Plays
- 19. Don't Tell Mama: A Role-Play Transcript
- pp. 273-289
- References
- pp. 311-313
- Suggested Reading on Mediation
- pp. 315-316
Additional Information
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2011