The Cultural Context of Ethicists' Case Examples and Consumer Narratives of Decisions About Life Supporting Technology

Authors

  • Joseph Kaufert

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v21i3.295

Abstract

Ethicists and clinical decision-makers, in order to illustrate moral, legal, and cultural issues, commonly use constructed case studies. They convey a sense of immediacy, practicality, and concrete experience required for teaching ethical and clinical decision-making. Unfortunately, their relation to the events reported is also often problematic in the sense that they decontextualize and reconstruct accounts to sustain biomedical and ethical frameworks.

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Published

2001-07-15

How to Cite

Kaufert, J. (2001). The Cultural Context of Ethicists’ Case Examples and Consumer Narratives of Decisions About Life Supporting Technology. Disability Studies Quarterly, 21(3). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v21i3.295