By discussing the difficult feelings these patients engender, they can also open up a discussion of values and professional roles in this challenging area of practice.
Norma Hornby Warrington, Cheshire Why is there so little discussion of values in the EU debate?
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has increased his discussion of values, treading on traditionally Republican terrain in an effort to root his platform and background in broad moral terms voters can identify with.
Midway through his first year, President Bush is planning a significant change in focus that includes renewed attention to issues like education and immigration and a vigorous discussion of values.
More broadly, when in the first trimester obstetricians talk with pregnant women and their partners about testing for genetic anomalies, they should include discussion of values and attitudes toward life, death and disability, or at least recommend such discussions.
"Mockus will bring something very important: a discussion of values," said Camilo Aristiz?l (no relation to the consular official), 29, who left Colombia three months ago and lives with an uncle in Long Beach, N.Y.
The result is a distinctively Habermasian critique of science and technology as ideology: by reducing practical questions about the good life to technical problems for experts, contemporary elites eliminate the need for public, democratic discussion of values, thereby depoliticizing the population (1970, chap. 6).
But where is the discussion of runaway materialism and American greed in our discussion of values?
No one person nor one party has all the "right" answers so discussion of values and facts, the how and the why, are important.
Obama is much less likely than Kerry was to allow himself to be characterized as a flip-flopper without core values, because his entire campaign is rooted in the discussion of values.
