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Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court Hardcover: 208 pages
In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic of justice, the Court's deference toward the "universal," "impartial," and "reasoned" knowledge of the medical profession and its disregard of the "particular," "involved," and "emotional" knowledge of patients seemed inevitable as well as justified. But was it? This book argues that it is both possible and proper to develop a jurisprudence capable of incorporating the knowledge of patients. This book proposes a model for a "caring jurisprudence" that integrates the ethic of justice and the ethic of care to ensure that patients' knowledge is included in judicial decision making. Susan M. Behuniak is professor of political science at Le Moyne College. Sections of this book include:
"This careful, thoughtful, and moving account of the Supreme Court's privacy cases should be of great interest to scholars in all disciplines interested in the Court and of the ideals and practices that guide it. Behuniak's book is a plea to judges at all levels to listen empathically to patients' knowledge and to integrate that knowledge into a more caring jurisprudence. She convincingly traces the inhumane consequences, in our law and in our ideals for law, of their failure, to date, to do so." - Robin West "Professor Behuniak has written a provocative book, challenging the nature of knowledge that is admissible in courts of law. Drawing on the case law governing abortion and the right to assisted suicide, and spoken in a clearly feminist voice, the author makes an effective argument for law to accept, indeed to welcome, the knowledge of the patient as evidence in litigation.." - Gayle Binion If you are interested in policy or books about health care reform, please see our up-to-date collection here: Politics, Policy & Reform. (information from the publisher) Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / You may also be interested in: / Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Return to Pages: / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Book Lists & Bookstore |
