-
Bioethics between two worlds : the politics of ethics in Central EuropeIn Catherine Myser (ed.), Bioethics Around the Globe, Oxford University Press. 2011.
-
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.
-
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
-
540Special Report: The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality and SafetyHastings Center Report 36 (4). 2006.
-
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
-
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.
-
5
Bruce Jennings
Vanderbilt University
Center for Humans and Nature
-
-
Center for Humans and NatureSenior Fellow (Part-time)
-
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 |