Ethical Expertise, Maternal Thinking, and the Work of Clinical Ethicists

Parker, Lisa S.

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“…Although philosophy is not unique in promoting careful and comprehensive reflection, conceptual analysis, and critical thinking, it differs from (Frey, 1978;Holmes, 1990;Parker, 2005). Moreover, one does not have to be an academic philosopher to think clearly or critically about ethical issues or to develop a certain sort of expertise.…”

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“…Some believe that bioethicists offer good assistance primarily in providing clarity (Singer, 1972). Others maintain that properly educated bioethicists can provide some normative guidance on issues and 602 L. M. Kopelman teach others how to approach and address problems they are likely to encounter (Parker, 2005). 1 Some critics respond that bioethicists are pretentious in their claims to offer advice on "everything bearing on human life," and are setting themselves up as "moral police" and "priestly looking interlopers" (Cooter, , p. 1749.…”

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Bioethics as a Second-Order Discipline: Who Is Not a Bioethicist?

Kopelman

2006

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

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A dispute exists about whether bioethics should become a new discipline with its own methods, competency standards, duties, honored texts, and core curriculum. Unique expertise is a necessary condition for disciplines. Using the current literature, different views about the sort of expertise that might be unique to bioethicists are critically examined to determine if there is an expertise that might meet this requirement. Candidates include analyses of expertise based in "philosophical ethics," "casuistry," "atheoretical or situation ethics," "conventionalist relativism," "institutional guidance," "regulatory guidance and compliance," "political advocacy," "functionalism," and "principlism." None succeed in identifying a unique area of expertise for successful bioethicists that could serve as a basis for making it a new discipline. Rather expertise in bioethics is rooted in many professions, disciplines and fields and best understood as a second-order discipline.

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Bioethics as a Second-Order Discipline: Who Is Not a Bioethicist?

Kopelman

2006

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

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“…To some degree, the scholarly debate on the societal role of moral philosophers has been formulated in terms of the possibility of such expertise (e.g., Tong 1991;Parker 2005;Sanchini 2015). However, this way of putting the issue is partly misguided, as the problem is not whether moral philosophers could be experts-they certainly can, on many things.…”

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Ethicisation and Reliance on Ethics Expertise

Hedlund

2023

Res Publica

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Ethicisation refers to the tendency to frame issues in ethical terms and can be observed in different areas of society, particularly in relation to policy-making on emerging technologies. The turn to ethics implies increased use of ethics expertise, or at least an expectation that this is the case. Calling for experts on ethics when ethically complicated questions need to be handled helps us to uphold central virtues, but there are also problems connected with ethicisation. In policy-making processes, the turn to ethics may not always be a sign of a sincere aspiration to moral performance, but a strategic move to gain acceptance for controversial or sensitive activities, and ethicisation may depoliticise questions and constrain room for democratic participation. Nevertheless, ethicisation, and the ensuing call for ethics experts, suggests an expectation of confidence in ethics and ethics expertise, and that ethical guidance is an effective way of governing people’s behaviour in a morally desirable way. The purpose of this article is to explore democratic and epistemic challenges of ethicisation in the context of emerging technologies, with a specific focus on how the notions of under-reliance and over-reliance of ethics expertise can unpack the processes at play. By using biotechnology and the EU process of bio-patents and the publication of ethical guidelines for AI development as illustrations, it is demonstrated how ethicisation may give rise to democratic and epistemic challenges that are not explicitly addressed in discussions on the political use of ethics expertise.

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Are Hospital Ethicists Experts? Taking Ethical Expertise Seriously

Adams

2018

Philosophy and Medicine

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Ethical Expertise, Maternal Thinking, and the Work of Clinical Ethicists

Cited by 9 publications

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Bioethics as a Second-Order Discipline: Who Is Not a Bioethicist?

Bioethics as a Second-Order Discipline: Who Is Not a Bioethicist?

Ethicisation and Reliance on Ethics Expertise

Are Hospital Ethicists Experts? Taking Ethical Expertise Seriously

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