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Being Beheld

On the Liturgical Consummation of Clinical Ethics Consultation

Dr. Jordan Mason

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English
Bloomsbury Academic
19 February 2026
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 patient’s 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 today’s most popular clinical ethics methods, the book alternates from on-the-ground problems to theory and back again. The central claim is that a good ethics technique should mirror the eucharistic liturgy, which facilitates encounter, reciprocity, and humility. The book is a work in practical ethics, offering students a complete reorientation of ethics from either powerless or power-grab to participation in the good of the other. In short, the search for a patient’s good should be an inherent aspect of every clinical encounter.

Offering case studies and lucid discussions of the current state of health care, Being Beheld is instructive to anyone who teaches, studies, or works in the areas of clinical ethics and health care.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 226mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9798216278665
Pages:   224
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Dedication Acknowledgements Prelude: Clinical Ethics and Standardization Part 1: Standardized Clinical Ethics Consultation Techniques Chapter 1: What is a Technique? Heidegger on Techne Heidegger’s Techne Within the Philosophy of Technology Techno-Ontology: Challenging-Forth in Clinical Ethics Consultation Chapter 2: What Does a Technique Do? Non-Identical Repetition Challenging-Forth and Identical Repetition Encounter and Being Ersatz Liturgies Chapter 3: The Four Boxes Method, Clinical Pragmatism, Bioethics Mediation, and the VA’s CASES Method The Four Boxes Method Clinical Pragmatism Bioethics Mediation A Note on the ASBH’s Facilitation Standards The VA’s CASES Method Chapter 4: Richard Zaner’s Phenomenological Method Zaner’s Phenomenological Method Foucault’s Critique of Phenomenology and Other Kantian Philosophies Phenomenology’s Revealing and Concealing Interlude: What Kind of Doing is Clinical Ethics Consultation? CEC and the Virtue of Phronesis Locally Building and Evaluating Techniques Part 2: Practical Ethics as Liturgical Activity Chapter 5: The Liturgy’s Participatory Ontology Liturgical Ontological Revealing What Participatory Ontology Does Not Mean: Rejecting Pantheism Practical Ethics with a Participatory Ontology Chapter 6: Practices of Participation, Not Power: Clinical Ethics Consultation Techniques in a Liturgical Stance Some Features of a Liturgical Stance Summary Postlude: An ASBH Case in a Liturgical Stance Bibliography

Jordan Mason is a health care ethicist and theologian currently serving as a clinical ethicist for Providence St. Joseph Health in Northern California. She completed her doctoral studies in Health Care Ethics and Theology at St. Louis University, and holds a Master of Divinity from McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta. Jordan has published in a variety of academic journals, religious and secular, medical and theological, academic and practical.

Reviews for Being Beheld: On the Liturgical Consummation of Clinical Ethics Consultation

This remarkable and important book argues that without a spiritual, liturgical and even religious dimension, medical ethics will always sacrifice the holistic interests of the patient to considerations of regular procedure and efficiency. Thoroughly recommended. -- C. J. C. Pickstock * Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge *


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