Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?

Whether ethics is too important to be left to the experts or so important that it must be is an age-old question. The emergence of clinical ethicists raises it again, as a question about professionalism. What role clinical ethicists should play in healthcare decision making – teacher, mediator, or c...

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Main Author: Scofield, Giles R. (Author)
Contributors: Fletcher, John C. ; Jonsen, Albert R. ; Lilje, Christian ; Self, Donnie J. ; Ross, Judith Wilson
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1993
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1993, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-448
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Summary:Whether ethics is too important to be left to the experts or so important that it must be is an age-old question. The emergence of clinical ethicists raises it again, as a question about professionalism. What role clinical ethicists should play in healthcare decision making – teacher, mediator, or consultant – is a question that has generated considerable debate but no consensus.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180100004473