ETHICS AND THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER

Professor Zaner has provided us with a remarkably lucid and trenchant discussion of the interface of philosophy and the field of medicine. He brings into play an extraordinary range of historial knowledge, extensive observations based on firsthand experience with medical practices, and an acute sense of philosophical argumentation. This is a work that will be an exemplary and indispensable text in the philosophy of medicine for years to come. -- Calvin Schrag ... it is a highly original contribution usable in a number of fields.... It really has no competition.... The genius of Zaner s approach is to ground ethics from the bottom up and to direct us to the concrete particulars of therapeutic encounters wherein lie moral and ethical matters ... meaty, challenging, and ultimately rewarding.... -- Paul R. Dokecki Richard M. Zaner founded the Center for Clinical and Research Ethics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Having established Vanderbilt s first Hospital Ethics Committee (1985), he served as co-chair of VUMC s Ethics Committee since its inception in 1990. Zaner has published five original books, edited ten, and translated four more, and has published more than 100 sections of books and professional journals.