Being Beheld

On the Liturgical Consummation of Clinical Ethics Consultation
Being Beheld explores the standardization of clinical ethics techniques and articulates how its integrity depends on our dissent from such standardization. Moving between philosophical, theological, and practical lenses, it offers a reorientation of ethics to participation in the good of the other, mirroring the Christian Eucharistic liturgy.

Being Beheld examines the techniques we use to approach ethical decisions in healthcare, arguing that ethical decision making in healthcare ought to be a work of conscience searching for a patients good, rather than merely the deployment of correct techniques or methods. Offering a fresh analysis of both practical ethics and its methodology, with sustained attention on todays most popular clinical ethics methods, the book alternates from on-the-ground problems to theory and back again. The central claim is