Deference or critical engagement: how should healthcare practitioners use clinical ethics guidance?
Monash Bioeth Rev
; 42(1): 1-15, 2024 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Healthcare practitioners have access to a range of ethical guidance. However, the normative role of this guidance in ethical decision-making is underexplored. This paper considers two ways that healthcare practitioners could approach ethics guidance. We first outline the idea of deference to ethics guidance, showing how an attitude of deference raises three key problems moral value; moral understanding; and moral error. Drawing on philosophical literature, we then advocate an alternative framing of ethics guidance as a form of moral testimony by colleagues and suggest that a more promising attitude to ethics guidance is to approach it in the spirit of 'critical engagement' rather than deference.
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Ética Clínica
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2024
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