Being Beheld

<p><b><i>Being Beheld</i> examines the techniques we use to approach ethical decisions in healthcare, arguing that ethical decision making in healthcare ought to be a work of conscience searching for a patient’s good, rather than merely the deployment of correct techniques or methods.</b> Offering a fresh analysis of both practical ethics and its methodology, with sustained attention on today’s most popular clinical ethics methods, the book alternates from on-the-ground problems to theory and back again. The central claim is that a good ethics technique should mirror the eucharistic liturgy, which facilitates encounter, reciprocity, and humility. The book is a work in practical ethics, offering students a complete reorientation of ethics from either <i>powerless</i> or <i>power-grab</i> to <i>participation</i> in the good of the other. In short, the search for a patient’s good should be an inherent aspect of every clinical encounter.<br><br>Offering case studies and lucid discussions of the current state of health care, <i>Being Beheld </i>is instructive to anyone who teaches, studies, or works in the areas of clinical ethics and health care.</p>