ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews clinical ethics education and their relationship to standard ethical analysis methods. It develops some areas of interest that are rarely covered normally but flow from clinical practice in the early twenty-first century especially in the cities, though certainly elsewhere as well. The chapter argues that the very fact of professional and life experience rendered clinical ethics a more immediate subject than perhaps earlier in a career. Although the number and quality of many undergraduate assignments gives the lie to such a sweeping statement, nonetheless many clinicians find in their middle careers, a need to study ethics more formally. Ethics and law in this regard is like any other course, although it should be noted that it is a subject which, if nothing else, is discursive and analytic and thus its study benefits from discussion and shared reasoning.