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ArticleThe Journal of medicine and philosophy2016

Moral Expertise in the Clinic: Lessons Learned from Medicine and Science.

Leah McClimans, Anne Slowther

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Article in The Journal of medicine and philosophy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Two Troubling Trends in the Conversation Over Whether Clinical Ethics Consultants Have Ethics Expertise.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2018
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  4. The "Ethics" Expertise in Clinical Ethics Consultation.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Leah McClimansUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK mccliman@mailbox.sc.edu.
Anne SlowtherUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Philosophers and others have questioned whether or not expertise in morality is possible. This debate is not only theoretical, but also affects the perceived legitimacy of clinical ethicists. One argument against moral expertise is that in a pluralistic society with competing moral theories no one can claim expertise regarding what another ought morally to do. There are simply too many reasonable moral values and intuitions that affect theory choice and its application; expertise is epistemically uniform. In this article, we discuss how similar concerns have recently threatened to undermine expertise in medicine and science. In contrast, we argue that the application of values is needed to exercise medical, scientific, and moral expertise. As long as these values are made explicit, worries about a pretense to authority in the context of a liberal democracy are ill-conceived. In conclusion, we argue for an expertise that is epistemically diverse.

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Bioethical IssuesEthics, MedicalEthics, ProfessionalMoral ObligationsEthical TheoryHumansMoralsmedical expertisemoral expertisescientific expertisevalues

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PMID27302969
PMCPMC4986003

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