Open AccessEthics in Praxis
Author(s) -
Lisa Melonçon,
Cathryn Molloy,
J. Blake Scott
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rhetoric of health and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2573-5063
pISSN - 2573-5055
DOI - 10.5744/rhm.2020.4004
Subject(s) - praxis , situational ethics , engineering ethics , sociology , reflexivity , tone (literature) , futures contract , virtue ethics , epistemology , virtue , social science , philosophy , linguistics , financial economics , engineering , economics
As the introduction to this issue makes clear, the ethical exposure essays we include here are the start of an ongoing initiative in the journal—to include focused sections of shorter pieces on critical threads or matters of concern in ongoing RHM work, in this case ethical conundra encountered in practice-level enactments of methodologies. In setting the tone for this special section, we now attempt to parse an “ethics in praxis” that is characterized by situational, embodied, and reflexive orientations rather thanby attributes more common in virtue ethics. This emphasis on praxis allows us to put forward an idea of ethics in and for RHM that is responsive to critique as we articulate it in the overall introduction to this issue: as kairos-driven and attuned to crises as they unfold in the present and as they anticipate and offer opportunities to “play” at various imagined futures.