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Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting
Author(s) -
Walker Margaret Urban
Publication year - 1993
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 - 10.2307/3562818
Subject(s) - space (punctuation) , sociology , psychology , engineering ethics , computer science , engineering , operating system
The moral expertise of clinical ethicists is not a question of mastering codelike theories and lawlike principles. Rather, ethicists are architects of moral space within the health care setting, as well as mediators in the conversations taking place within that space.