How Legal Theory Can Save the Life of Healthcare Ethics

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Contents
Chapter 1: A Compromised and Ineffectual Field?
	1.1 Professing to Be Professionals (What Is the Nature of the Work?)
	1.2 Consultation Content and Method
	1.3 Sophistry and the Status Quo
	1.4 The Art (or Artifice) of Compromise
	1.5 Research Ethics: Rules, Regulations, and Review
	1.6 Institutional Interests and the Obligations of Ethicists
	1.7 Conflict of Interest (COI) for Ethics Consultants: A Primer
Chapter 2: Conflicted Consultants: Surveying the Canadian Context
	2.1 Outside Interference: Laundry Lists and the Efficacy of Efforts to Come Clean
	2.2 The Case of the Committed Graduate Student: Interests Worth Worrying About?
	2.3 COI, Reflexivity, and the Nature of Ethicists’ Interests
	2.4 Stark’s Contrasts: Intrinsic COI and the Character of Professional Identity
	2.5 Agency Relationships and Ethical Obligations
Chapter 3: Scrutinizing the Standing of Principles: On the Politics of Bioethics
	3.1 Conflict of Interest or Political Interference? Bioethicists Eating Their Own
	3.2 PHEs and Public (Health) Ethics: Building a Better Bioethics
	3.3 Who Abides and Who Decides? Joan Tronto on Authority in Ethics
	3.4 Public (Health) Ethics: Fostering Reflection and Playing the Long Game
	3.5 Wicked Problems and Virtuous Solutions: Beyond Bioethics’ Boundaries?
	3.6 Progressive Lenses: Illuminating Ethical Issues or Distorting Experience?
Chapter 4: Ethics as Interpretation: Lessons from Legal Theory
	4.1 What Makes a Hard Case Hard?
	4.2 Practising in the Penumbra: Variation and Values
	4.3 The Core and the Penumbra: Settled Questions and Unsettling Ones
	4.4 MAID in Canada: Making Sense of Our Legal and Ethical Obligations
	4.5 Inside Traders or Honest Brokers? Examining the Terms of the PHE’s Relationships
	4.6 Taking Sides or Occupying the Middle Ground? An Insider/Outsider Approach to the Practice of Healthcare Ethics Consultation
	4.7 Integrity in Interpretation: The Right Answer(s) for Applied Ethicists?
	4.8 Philosophizing in the Penumbra: Advising on Access to MAID
	4.9 Illuminating the Ethical Penumbra: How Jurisprudence Can Help
	4.10 Fruits of the Living Tree: What a Common Law Conception Offers Healthcare Ethics Consultation
	4.11 Imagining McLachlin: A Hercules for Healthcare Ethics?
Chapter 5: Professionalizing PHEs: The Promise of a Practice Worth Wanting
	5.1 Scofield’s Critique: Gathering Wool or Communicating Appropriate Concerns?
	5.2 Hard Cases, Philosophizing, and the Practice of PHEs
	5.3 Professionalization and Professionalization: Skepticism or Systemic Thinking?
	5.4 Certification, Accreditation, and Public Protection: McLachlin Meets MAID
	5.5 Closing Thoughts: Consultation in the Context of Crises
Bibliography
Index