1. Charles Taylor, hermeneutics and Social Imaginaries: a framework for ethics research.
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Carnevale, Franco A.
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CRITICALLY ill , *DECISION making , *ETHICS , *INFORMED consent (Medical law) , *INTENSIVE care nursing , *PHENOMENOLOGY , *PATIENT-family relations , *MEDICAL ethics , *NURSING research , *NURSING ethics , *PARENTS , *PATERNALISM , *PATIENTS , *PEDIATRIC nursing , *PHYSICIANS , *DECISION making in clinical medicine , *ETHICAL decision making , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *CHILDREN with disabilities , *EMPIRICAL research , *TERMINATION of treatment - Abstract
Hermeneutics, also referred to as interpretive phenomenology, has led to important contributions to nursing research. The philosophy of Charles Taylor has been a major source in the development of contemporary hermeneutics, through his ontological and epistemological articulations of the human sciences. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that Taylor's ideas can further enrich hermeneutic inquiry in nursing research, particularly for investigations of ethical concerns. The paper begins with an outline of Taylor's hermeneutical framework, followed by a review of his key ideas relevant for ethics research. The paper ends with a discussion of my empirical research with critically ill children in Canada and France in relation to Taylor's ideas, chiefly Social Imaginaries. I argue that Taylor's hermeneutics provides a substantive moral framework as well as a methodology for examining ethical concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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