Sort-of-fresh in my inbox this morning was a notification that SUNY Stony Brook is advertising for an assistant/ associate professorial level job as a clinical ethicist. I’ve blogged about this kind of role before, and I have to say that the wording of the advert sort of confirms my suspicions about clinical ethics consultancy. The primary responsibilities […]
Category: The Art of Medicine
What Can Doctors Do?
An area of research with which I’ve been toying for quite a long time now is to try to provide an answer to the question “What are doctors for?”. (Admittedly, the possibility of a cheap’n’nasty Heidegger pun in the title, Wozu Doktor?, has a reasonably high place in the list of the project’s attractions… Ho-hum. It’s […]