Death’s Broker: the Ethics Consultant in the ICU

Modern Western medicine may be seen as an effort to wrest the phenomenon of healing away from religious communities. The ethicist's role as consultant in hospital is best understand as brokering the progress of technical death and bodily death in challenging cases, conducting a variety of inter...

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Published in:Society (New Brunswick) 2015-10, Vol.52 (5), p.448-461
Main Author: Schenck, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Bioethics
Critical care
Death & dying
Demographic aspects
Dialects
Ethical aspects
Ethics
Hospitals
Intensive care
Intensive care units
Medical care
Medical Services
Medicine
Negotiations
Patients
Political Science
Religion
Religious aspects
Resistance (Psychology)
Secularism
Social Sciences
Sociology
Stakeholders
Symposium: The Religious and Secular in Medicine and Health
Teams
United States
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Summary:Modern Western medicine may be seen as an effort to wrest the phenomenon of healing away from religious communities. The ethicist's role as consultant in hospital is best understand as brokering the progress of technical death and bodily death in challenging cases, conducting a variety of interlocking negotiations, so that the two deaths occur at the same time, to the degree that that is possible.
ISSN:0147-2011
1936-4725
DOI:10.1007/s12115-015-9928-9