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ETHICS CONSULTATION AS MORAL ENGAGEMENT
Author(s) -
MORENO JONATHAN D.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00143.x
Subject(s) - moral reasoning , health care , bioethics , clinical ethics , moral disengagement , normative ethics , engineering ethics , epistemology , psychology , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , political science , law , engineering
I will begin by presenting some doubts about what might be called the "received view" of the role of the moral expert as a health care consultant. Then I will review the literature on moral experts and moral expertise and proceed to apply the results of that review to the notion that there are some who are expert in ethical decision making in health care. I will try to show that certain conclusions that can be drawn from this rather circumscribed topic have implications for the very conception of the relationship between moral theory and clinical ethics.