| Title |
For an Ethnomethodology of Healthcare Ethics
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Health Care Analysis, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10728-012-0202-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nathan Emmerich |
| Abstract |
This paper considers the utility of Ethnomethodology (EM) for the study of healthcare ethics as part of the empirical turn in Bioethics. I give a brief introduction to EM through its respecification of sociology, the specific view on the social world this generates and EM's posture of 'indifference'. I then take a number of EM concepts and articulate each in the context of an EM study of healthcare ethics in professional practice. Having given an overview of the relationship and perspective EM might bring to the professional practice of healthcare ethics I consider whether and how such an approach could be deployed. Whilst an ethnographic study might be problematic I suggest a number of alternative methods through which such EM research could be accomplished. I conclude with the suggestion that, as a particular approach to sociological research, EM offers good deal of potential for the empirical study of healthcare ethics in practice which could result in an improved reflexive understanding of professional ethical practices in bioethics. |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
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| Netherlands | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 20 | 87% |
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| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 13% |
| Professor | 2 | 9% |
| Librarian | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 17% |
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| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 13% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 9% |
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