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The Hospital Ethics Committee
Author(s) -
Blake David C.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562714
Subject(s) - conscience , ethics committee , white (mutation) , medical ethics , psychology , nursing , environmental ethics , law , medicine , political science , philosophy , public administration , biology , biochemistry , gene
In a morally fragmented society there is no good reason for ethics committees to assume any particular point of view, yet failure to do so compromises their ability to function in either a case‐review or an educational capacity. A casuist methodology might enable committees to fulfill both roles.