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Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters, by D. Micah Hester. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 105 pp. $18.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2004

Wayne Shelton
Wayne Shelton
Affiliation:
Wayne Shelton, Ph.D., is Associate Director, Center for Medical Ethics, and Co-Director, AMC/Union Master's Program at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York
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In Community as Healing, Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics and H. Tristram Engelhardt in The Foundations of Bioethics are inadequate. As he states:

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CQ REVIEW
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 207 - 210
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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