What Patients Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Health Care (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190650582)

Joseph B. Fanning is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as the Director of the Clinical Ethics Consultations Service and works with patients, families and clinicians on ethical concerns that arise in patient care. His research focuses on the importance of communication in building therapeutic relationships. In 2009, Fanning co-edited with Ellen Wright Clayton a special issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics that focused on spiritual and religious issues in medical genetics. He has also co-authored articles on the philosophy and practice of clinical ethics consultation. He is a lead investigator on a pilot project funded by the Baptist Healing Trust that seeks to understand how health care teams and families of incapacitated patients coordinate expectations about the future course of care. Fanning also teaches healthcare ethics across the medical center and directs an undergraduate course on death and dying in America.

David Schenck is a Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After twenty years as a professor of philosophy and religion, Schenck served as the founding executive director of a free medical clinic, and as a counselor and healthcare advocate for the homeless. He has volunteered and worked for many hospices over the last twenty years. Schenck has published articles in: Annals of Internal Medicine, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Social Medicine Reader, Society, Journal British Society Phenomenology, Phenomenology and Philosophical Research, Soundings, Journal of Religious Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Human Studies. He is the author, with Larry R. Churchill, of Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work (Oxford University Press, 2011)