Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation? And what about this counselling is ethical? The book explains the background of the development of clinical ethics counselling. It provides new insights into serious decision-making conflicts in everyday clinical life and uncovers the disputes that followed in public. In the search for the ethical understanding of clinical ethics counselling, the book comes across previously unexplored evidence. Step by step, a system is reconstructed that reveals the shape of a significant philosophical school of thought.

​Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bleyer holds the Chair for Theological Ethics at the University of Passau and is the head of the master’s program in Caritas Science and of the Institute of Applied Ethics in Economics and Education (Ethik WAW). He received his PhD in Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg (2007) and wrote his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) in the field of Moral Theology at the Catholic Private University Linz (2019).