| The project of the Clinical Ethics enterprise ought to be to pay attention to the moral quality of the life lived in the health care community.;In the thirty or so years that the Clinical Ethics enterprise has been around (in this incarnation), it has developed a dominant discourse. Called "principlism" it is a model which attempts to reach resolution of the ethical dilemmas by adhering to a set of articulated principles. In this thesis I make the claim that the principlist approach is not adequate to the Clinical Ethics project.;Further, I make a claim that story and storytelling within the health care community are a means to furthering the Clinical Ethics project. In this discussion I utilize theory, story and personal experience to support this claim. Drawing the thesis to a close, I discuss an example of the praxis of storytelling within the health care community. |
