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ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2018

Against Inflationary Views of Ethics Expertise.

Lisa M Rasmussen

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Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lisa M RasmussenDepartment of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA. lrasmuss@uncc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9339-0770

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abram Brummett and Christopher Ostertag offer critiques of my argument that clinical ethics consultants have expertise but are not "ethics experts" (Brummett and Ostertag 2018). My argument begins within our less-than-ideal world and asks what a justification of a clinical ethics consultation recommendation might look like under those conditions. It is a challenge to what could be called an "inflationary" position on ethics expertise that requires agreement on or rational proof of metaethical facts about the values at stake in clinical ethics consultation. Brummett and Ostertag critique three distinct steps in the argument. Two of those I have a brief answer for, and an assessment of the third demonstrates that Brummett and Ostertag do not consider the premise upon which I based my account. Instead, they assert a counter-premise without argument, which at best results in a stalemate between our two accounts. However, the reasons supporting my premise still seem to me to be stronger, so I am in the end unconvinced by their critiques.

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Bioethical IssuesEthicistsEthics, ClinicalEthics ConsultationProfessional CompetenceDecision MakingHumansClinical ethicsClinical ethics consultationEthics expertise

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