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I should note at the outset that an early version of this book was published several years ago in Mandarin. (Published as Voices and Visions: Clinical Listening, Narrative Writing, tr. by Cheng-yun Tsai, National Chengchi University Press (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 (published in Mandarin Chinese only)) The reason for this is that a good friend, Chen-yun Tsai, a Professor of Philosophy at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, asked me if I would write a book that would lay out the principal topics and themes of my several decades of work in medical humanities and clinical ethics. He was also concerned that at that time, only two of my books of clinical ethics narratives had been published over there, and he was concerned that persons in that still-developing field in Taiwan should know of my philosophical views on those themes. His invitation came at the conclusion of a seven-lecture tour of universities in Taiwan in 2004, and it was with that prominently in mind that I agreed with Professor Tsai's suggestion, but only after he had agreed to undertake the book's translation into complex Chinese Mandarin, used among professionals in colleges and universities. Working with him and the editor of his university's Press, Chu-po Chen, the book was in due course completed and the translation begun. But given the complexities of the language and those of translation, especially from my own not always Standard English usages, this took several years to complete.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18332-9_1

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