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Stuart Finder

Stuart G. Finder is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he also serves as a Clinical Ethics Consultant and member and co-chair of CSMC’s Bioethics Committee. As part of his work at Cedars-Sinai, he also teaches a course in Clinical Ethics for students from American Jewish University. Before arriving in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007, he spent 16 years at Vanderbilt University (primary appointment in the Medical Center, secondary appointment in Philosophy). As a clinician, a teacher, and a researcher, Stuart is interested in exploring the complexity and implications of moral experiences as actualized in health care contexts.

Ethics, Responsibility, and Clinical Decision-Making

Health and Healing, Identity and Responsibility

Deciding what is best for another, especially for one who is seriously ill or injured, is a complicated and delicate matter. In the context of healthcare decision-making, identifying what is actually at stake and imagining and then articulating the possible consequences of our actions form the core for making decisions that we call "good." For patients, their families, and even healthcare providers, religious language often becomes the means to speak directly about such deliberations, and thus serves as an opportunity to discover deeper commitments.

Secular Versus Jewish Medical Ethics: Different or Not? A Case Study

Stuart Finder, Jason Weiner

Health and Healing, Identity and Responsibility, Teen Approved

A hospital ethicist and chaplain discuss some of the most common, emotional, and perplexing ethical dilemmas that arise in their work, as well as different strategies to approach them, as a basis for examining some of the core distinctions and similarities between contemporary secular medical ethics and traditional Jewish medical ethics.

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