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6Traumatic Brain Injury and the Goals of CareHastings Center Report 36 (2): 29-37. 2012.The appropriate goal of care for a person with a traumatic brain injury is rehabilitation in the broad, etymological sense of the word. The task is to bring the person back to the conditions of the living of a life. This requires the rehabilitation of the mind—the reconstruction of a subject.
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540Special Report: The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality and SafetyHastings Center Report 36 (4). 2006.
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44Possibilities of consensus: Toward democratic moral discourseJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (4): 447-463. 1991.The concept of consensus is often appealed to in discussions of biomedical ethics and applied ethics, and it plays an important role in many influential ethical theories. Consensus is an especially influential notion among theorists who reject ethical realism and who frame ethics as a practice of discourse rather than a body of objective knowledge. It is also a practically important notion when moral decision making is subject to bureaucratic organization and oversight, as is increasingly becomi…Read more
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34Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This book identifies and explores ethical themes in the structure and delivery of hospice care in the United States. As the fastest growing sector in the US healthcare system, in which over forty percent of patients who die each year receive care in their final weeks of life, hospice care presents complex ethical opportunities and challenges for patients, families, clinicians, and administrators. Thirteen original chapters, written by seventeen hospice experts, offer guidance and analysis that…Read more
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45The ordeal of reminding: Traumatic brain injury and the goals of careHastings Center Report 36 (2): 29-37. 2006.The appropriate goal of care for a person with a traumatic brain injury is rehabilitation in the broad, etymological sense of the word. The task is to bring the person back to the conditions of the living of a life. This requires the rehabilitation of the mind—the reconstruction of a subject.
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16Public Administration: In Search of Democratic ProfessionalismHastings Center Report 17 (1): 18-20. 1987.
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30Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?Hastings Center Report 47 (2): 11-16. 2017.Across the world, an authoritarian and exclusionary form of populism is gaining political traction. Historically, some populist movements have been democratic and based on a sense of inclusive justice and the common good. But the populism on the rise at present speaks and acts otherwise. It is challenging constitutional democracies. The polarization seen in authoritarian populism goes beyond the familiar left-right political spectrum and generates disturbing forms of extremism, including the so-…Read more
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63The regulation of virtue: Cross-currents in professional ethics (review)Journal of Business Ethics 10 (8). 1991.This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the civic functions of ethical discourse about the professions and to the moral virtues inherent in their practice and traditions. The ability of professional ethics to articulate civic ideals and virtues is discussed in relation to three issues. First, should professional ethics aim to enlighten ethical understanding or to motivate ethical conduct? Second, how should professional ethics define the professional's moral responsibilities in t…Read more
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11Gaylin and Jennings tell us that we must change the everyday behavior shaping the landscape of modern American society. Our current culture of autonomy is predicated on rationality as the basis of human conduct. But, we are reminded here, man is not inherently rational; appeals to emotion are far more effective than logical argument in changing our conduct.
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29The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality and SafetyHastings Center Report 36 (4). 2006.
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65Reconceptualizing Autonomy: A Relational Turn in BioethicsHastings Center Report 46 (3): 11-16. 2016.History's judgment on the success of bioethics will not depend solely on the conceptual creativity and innovation in the field at the level of ethical and political theory, but this intellectual work is not insignificant. One important new development is what I shall refer to as the relational turn in bioethics. This development represents a renewed emphasis on the ideographic approach, which interprets the meaning of right and wrong in human actions as they are inscribed in social and cultural …Read more
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44SOLIDARITY in the Moral Imagination of BioethicsHastings Center Report 45 (5): 31-38. 2015.How important is the concept of solidarity in our society's calculus of consent as regards the legitimacy and ethical and political support for public health, health policy, and health services? By the term “calculus of consent,” we refer to the answer that people give to rationalize and justify their obedience to laws, rules, and policies that benefit others. The calculus of consent answers questions such as, Why should I care? Why should I help? Why should I contribute to the public provision …Read more
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111Public health and liberty: Beyond the millian paradigmPublic Health Ethics 2 (2): 123-134. 2009.Center for Humans and Nature, 109 West 77th Street, Suite 2, New York, NY 10024, USA. Tel.: 212 362 7170; Fax: 212 362 9592; Email: brucejennings{at}humansandnature.org ' + u + '@' + d + ' '//--> . Abstract A fundamental question for the ethical foundations of public health concerns the moral justification for limiting or overriding individual liberty. What might justify overriding the individual moral claim to non-interference or to self-realization? This paper argues that the libertarian justi…Read more
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38Toward An Expanded Vision of Clinical Ethics Education: From the Individual to the InstitutionKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1 (3): 225-245. 1991.This paper advances a new paradigm in clinical ethics education that not only emphasizes development of individual cli but also focuses on the institutional context within which health care professionals work. This approach has been applied to the goal of improving the care provided to critically and terminally ill adults. The model has been adopted by about thirty hospitals and nursing homes; additional institutions will soon join the program, entitled Decisions Near the End of Life. Here, we d…Read more
Bruce Jennings
Vanderbilt University
Center for Humans and Nature
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Center for Humans and NatureSenior Fellow (Part-time)
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The Hastings CenterSenior Advisor (Part-time)
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |