Relational Ethics: The Full Meaning of Respect

by Vangie Bergum, John Dossetor, Solomon Benatar (Foreword)

Relational ethics as presented in this book is based on research and interdisciplinary practice and offers an ethic for health care. Vangie Bergum (Nursing) and John Dossetor (Medicine), seeking more than principles as an ethical guide, gathered clinicians and scholars around the actual healthcare experiences of individuals and families. The resulting dialogue revealed the necessary grounding of a fitting ethical our relational commitments to one another. It is here that we discover how to act and how to be with those in our care. The book presents the core elements of relational ethics in an immediate, accessible, and inspiring way by gathering with the reader around genuine stories, bringing this ethic to life.

260 pages, Paperback

Published July 22, 2020

About the author

Vangie Bergum, Ph.D., began her career as a public health nurse and worked for twenty-five years as a professor at the University of Alberta, teaching primarily in the area of healthcare ethics and phenomenological research. She has authored several academic books on the experience of mothering and healthcare ethics, has co-written and produced a play based on her research, and now writes in the genre of creative non-fiction. She lives in the forest near Ymir, British Columbia.