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ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2019

The Clinical Ethics Consultant: What Role is There for Religious Beliefs?

J Clint Parker

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Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2019. 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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J Clint ParkerDepartment of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 600 Moye Blvd., Brody 2S-17, Mailstop 641, Greenville, NC, 27834, USA. parkerjo@ecu.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Religions often operate as comprehensive worldviews, attempting to answer the deepest existential questions that human beings can ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going after I die? How should I live? Often ethical systems are embedded and justified within these broader narratives. Inevitably, the clinical ethics consultant will encounter and engage with religiously based ethical systems. In this issue, the authors reflect seriously and deeply on the implications of such engagement.

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Ethics, MedicalSpiritualityConsultantsHumansProfessional RoleClinical ethicsClinical ethics consultationReligion

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PMID31134401

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