Moral Conflicts and Religious Convictions: What Role for Clinical Ethics Consultants?
HEC Forum
; 31(2): 141-150, 2019 Jun.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29725893
Moral conflicts over medical treatment that are the result of differences in fundamental moral commitments of the stakeholders, including religiously grounded commitments, can present difficult challenges for clinical ethics consultants. This article begins with a case example that poses such a conflict, then examines how consultants might use different approaches to clinical ethics consultation in an effort to facilitate the resolution of conflicts of this kind. Among the approaches considered are the authoritarian approach, the pure consensus approach, and the ethics facilitation approach described in the Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultation report of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, as well as a patient advocate approach, a clinician advocate approach, and an institutional advocate approach. The article identifies clear limitations to each of these approaches. An analysis of the introductory case illustrates those limitations, and the article concludes that deep-seated conflicts of this kind may reveal inescapable limits of current approaches to clinical ethics consultation.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Religião e Medicina
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Espiritualismo
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Consultoria Ética
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Princípios Morais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
HEC Forum
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
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HOSPITAIS
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JURISPRUDENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Holanda