The Nature and Value of Bioethics Expertise
In this article, I address the extent to which experts in bioethics can contribute to healthcare delivery by way of aid in clinical decision-making and policy-formation. I argue that experts in bioethics are moral experts, in that their substantive moral views are more likely to be correct than thos...
| Published in: | Bioethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Bioethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCH Medical ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
| Further subjects: | B
ethicist
B common-sense morality B Moral Disagreement B moral misconception B moral expertise B ethical decision-making B clinical ethics |
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| Summary: | In this article, I address the extent to which experts in bioethics can contribute to healthcare delivery by way of aid in clinical decision-making and policy-formation. I argue that experts in bioethics are moral experts, in that their substantive moral views are more likely to be correct than those of non-bioethicists, all else being equal, but that such expertise is of use in a relatively limited class of cases. In so doing, I respond to two recent arguments against the view that bioethicists are moral experts, one by Christopher Cowley and another by David Archard. I further argue that bioethics experts have significant additional contributions to make to healthcare delivery, and highlight a hitherto neglected aspect of that contribution: amelioration of moral misconception among clinicians. I describe in detail several aspects of moral misconception, and show how the bioethicist is in a prime position to resolve that sort of error. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12114 |