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Vulnerable Populations, the Inverse Care Law, and the Role of Clinical Ethicists: Experiences from Switzerland

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2022
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Krones, T., & Monteverde, S. (2022). Vulnerable Populations, the Inverse Care Law, and the Role of Clinical Ethicists: Experiences from Switzerland. In K. Wasson & M. Kuczewski (Eds.), Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation : North American and European Perspectives (pp. 85–92). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91916-0_10

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Departing from the Swiss healthcare context and from the experience of the clinical ethics unit at a larger university hospital, this chapter discusses what “witnessing” structural vulnerability of patients actually entails for clinical ethics services from a normative point of view. It discusses the foundations and duties of clinical ethics services in addressing unmet needs of vulnerable populations and epistemic injustices, recalling the relevance of assuring universal health coverage under applicable law and uncovering the dynamic

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  • Wasson, Katherine
  • Kuczewski, Mark

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Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation : North American and European Perspectives

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Cham

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85

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92

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English

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2022-01-01

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2023-01-04

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Philosophy and Medicine

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0376-7418

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978-3-030-91915-3

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eBook ISBN 978-3-030-91916-0

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Krones, T., & Monteverde, S. (2022). Vulnerable Populations, the Inverse Care Law, and the Role of Clinical Ethicists: Experiences from Switzerland. In K. Wasson & M. Kuczewski (Eds.), Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation : North American and European Perspectives (pp. 85–92). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91916-0_10

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