"This is a book that clinicians are sure to enjoy. Scher and Kozlowska mount a compelling case that ''clinical ethics is inescapably embedded in every clinical interaction and in every clinical process.'' In lieu of formal bioethics, the authors stress that clinicians should use their own informal ethical discourse (which they have been using their entire lives) to address problems, ethical or otherwise, in clinical health care: what has gone wrong, why, and what needs to be done to address the needs of our patients? Revitalizing Health Care Ethics communicates a deep respect for clinicians and for their existing skills and capacities, including ethical capacities. I hope that the book reaches a wide audience of students, trainees, clinicians, and educators." (Per Olav Vandvik, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation, and Professor, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo) "Scher and Kozlowska have produced a critically important account of everyday ethics and values for health care practitioners. They compellingly demonstrate that clinicians can learn to rely on their own judgment as to what''s right, through open and reflective consideration of their personal moral development and ongoing professional commitments. They show that effective treatment, caring, and values are inextricably linked--and without needing to rely on so-called "experts." They offer a critical intervention for the reconsideration of traditional reliance on formal bioethical reasoning.

Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician''s Voice presents a clear and empathic strategy for clinicians to take responsibility and trust their judgment as they confront ethical questions in the care of patients. This is a must read for clinicians and bioethicists, students and trainees, their teachers, and anyone concerned about the state of compassionate caregiving and the quality of patient care today." (Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University) "How many of us in clinical health care have sought formal ethical opinions in challenging clinical cases, only to be confused by the length, complexity, and vocabulary of the result? This leaves us with a feeling of inadequacy in regard to our competence in this aspect of our practice. Scher and Kozlowska''s book is here to help. It shows how all clinicians develop an ethical dimension that is involved in all their decisions, in most of which the ethical aspects are subliminal. The authors trace how our integration of a sense of right and wrong in childhood serves as the foundation for the sense of ethics that trainee clinicians have as they start their professional journey. Through this journey, dotted with individual, landmark experiences that advance and guide the development of trainees into mature practitioners, clinicians become aware of their own competence to make ethical judgments and how that essential skill is integrated into their everyday work.

" (Hugh Martin, MB, BS, FRACS, FRCS (Eng), pediatric surgeon, Children''s Hospital at Westmead, Past President, Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and Past President, Australian and New Zealand Burns Association) "In their 2018 book Rethinking Health Care Ethics, Scher and Kozlowska contrasted the standard, "top-down" approach to bioethics centered on abstract discussion of principles as applied to problem cases, with the informal, "bottom-up," implicitly moral, clinical decision-making practiced every day by interpretive communities of care. Building on this foundation, Revitalizing Heath Care Ethics uses clear language and well-chosen vignettes to show how individuals'' and teams'' embedded ethics engage their baseline human capacities and responses, along with their frameworks for taking action. Their account significantly deepens our practical understanding of the ways clinicians come to care well for others and to improve that care. As a valuable and accessible contribution, the book deserves to be widely read." (John R. Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and former Chair of the Corresponding Committee on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association) "In their new book, Scher and Kozlowska literally revitalize health care ethics, seeing clinical ethics as embedded in the lives (vitae) and work of health care clinicians. The moral voice of clinicians is restored; proper emphasis is given to informal ethical discourse; and ethics is understood as embedded in everything clinicians say and do. In the "Scher-Kozlowska revolution," health care ethics is once again the domain of health care clinicians, where now it should stay.

" (Amir Muzur, MD, MA, PhD, Head, Department of Social Sciences and Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, and Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka (Croatia)).