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- The first book to apply Robert Brandom’s pragmatist philosophy of language to make explicit the normative dimensions of genetic counselling
- The only book on genetic counseling that explores how communication affects professional conceptions of providing genetic information
- Features a distinctive focus on how best to coordinate meanings across genetic and religious discourses
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 124)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
Authors and Affiliations
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
Joseph B. Fanning
About the author
Joseph B. Fanning is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as the Director of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service and works with patients, families and clinicians on ethical concerns that arise in health care.
He received undergraduate training at Birmingham-Southern College (B.A. 1993) completed masters work at Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2000, Th.M., 2001); and earned his doctorate in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University (Ph.D. 2008).
His research focuses on the role of communication and interpersonal skills in the development of therapeutic relationships across clinical contexts. Most recently, he and other members of a research team authored an article in Qualitative Health Research identifying obstacles to sharing expectations in a critical care context. He has co-authored a book based on fifty-five patient interviews titled, What Patients Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Healthcare (Oxford University Press, Fall 2013). In 2009, Fanning co-edited with Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton a special issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics that focused on spiritual and religious issues in medical genetics.
Fanning also teaches healthcare ethics across Vanderbilt working with students in the schools of Medicine and Nursing as well as with trainees across multiple residency and fellowship programs. He is also the lead instructor for undergraduate course in the College of Arts and Science titled “Death and Dying in America” that combines experiential learning through hospice volunteering with interdisciplinary engagement of the issues that surround death and dying.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Normative and Pragmatic Dimensions of Genetic Counseling
Book Subtitle: Negotiating Genetics and Ethics
Authors: Joseph B. Fanning
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44929-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44928-9Published: 19 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83165-7Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44929-6Published: 11 October 2016
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 151
Topics: Bioethics, Communication Studies, Human Genetics