Primary Care Ethics is Just Medical Ethics: A Philosophical Argument for the Feasibility of Transitioning Acute Care Ethics to the Primary Care Setting.
HEC Forum
; 35(1): 73-94, 2023 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
Whether practiced by ethics committees or clinical ethicists, medical ethics enjoys a solid foundation in acute care hospitals. However, medical ethics fails to have a strong presence in the primary care setting. Recently, some ethicists have argued that the reason for this disparity between ethics in the acute and primary care setting is that primary care ethics is distinct from acute care ethics the failure to translate ethics to the primary care setting stems from the incorrect belief that acute care ethics can be applied to the primary care setting. In this paper, I argue that primary care ethics and acute care ethics are species of the same ethical genus, and that the ethical differences are not ones of kind but of circumstance. I do this by appealing to the role obligations that underlie acute care and primary care clinicians' medical ethical obligations and the shared institutions that ground those obligations.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Eticistas
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Ética Médica
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
HEC Forum
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
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HOSPITAIS
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JURISPRUDENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos