Philosophers' Invasion of Clinical Ethics: Historical and Personal Reflections

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Were the “Pioneer” Clinical Ethics Consultants “Outsiders”? For Them, Was “Critical Distance” That Critical?

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The author knows several co-authors of the paper on which he is commenting. He co-founded a bioethics program with Prof. Wayne Shelton of Albany Medical College. For complex reasons that program split into two: One is directed by Prof. Bruce White of Albany Medical College; the other, with which the author is affiliated and formerly directed, is co-directed by Prof. Sean Philpott-Jones of Clarkson University and Prof. Rosamond Rhodes of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Notes

1. Oversimply stated: Phenomenologists analyze consciousness, whereas analytic philosophers' paradigms of knowledge are logic and the sciences.

2. I worked with psychiatrist Paul Lowinger on patients' rights and informed consent issues arising in a case of experimental psychosurgery. See Kaimowitz v. Michigan DMH (1973).