Review of Clinical Ethics: Towards a Relational Approach to Care, 2014, Hubert Doucet, Paramètres, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Abstract

In his book L’éthique clinique pour une approche relationnelle (Clinical Ethics: A Relational Approach), Hubert Doucet proposes an approach to clinical ethics that includes various theoretical and practical perspectives, notably that of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Doucet argues for a relational vision of clinical ethics practice, an ethics of caregivers that, in his words, “needs to be built from the experience of the disease and adapted to the ill person.”