Description: Ethics of Uncertainty : Entangled Ethical and Epistemic Risks in Disorders of Consciousness, Hardcover by Johnson, L. Syd M., ISBN 0190943645, ISBN-13 9780190943646, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Disorders of Consciousness (DoCs) raise difficult and complex questions about the value of life for persons with impaired consciousness, the rights of persons unable to make medical decisions, and our social, medical, and ethical obligations to patients whose personhood has frequently been
challenged and neglected. Recent neuroscientific discoveries have led to enhanced understanding of the heterogeneity of these disorders, and focused renewed attention on the medical and ethical problem of misdiagnosis.
This book examines the entanglement of epistemic and ethical uncertainty in DoCs and other medical contexts, and how they interact to create both epistemic and ethical risks. Philosopher and bioethicist L. Syd M Johnson pulls together multiple threads in this work: the ontological mysteries of
consciousness, medical uncertainty about unconsciousness, ableist bias, withdrawal of treatment in neurointensive care, and the rarely questioned view that consciousness is essential to personhood and moral status. Johnson challenges longstanding bioethical dogmas about DoC patients, and argues for
an ethics of uncertainty for contexts where there is a need for decisive action in the presence of unavoidable uncertainty. The ethics of uncertainty refocuses ethical inquiry concerning persons with DoCs, placing less emphasis on their contested personhood, and more on inductive risk and
uncertainty, on respect for autonomy, and especially on epistemic justice. With applications to various decisional contexts where uncertainty and ethical risk interact, this ethical approach enables surrogate decision makers facing fraught and risky choices to fulfill their obligations as moral and
epistemic agents.
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Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Ethics of Uncertainty : Entangled Ethical and Epistemic Risks in Disorders of Consciousness
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Neurology, General
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Subject Area: Medical
Item Length: 5.9 in
Author: L. Syd M. Johnson
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Hardcover
