ArticleSociology of health & illness2020
Managing ethical uncertainty: implicit normativity and the sociology of ethics.
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- Justifying Euthanasia: A Qualitative Study of Veterinarians' Ethical Boundary Work of "Good" Killing.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Developing a Framework and Electronic Tool for Communicating Diagnostic Uncertainty in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study.JAMA network open · 2023Review
- Patient decision support resources inform decisions about cancer susceptibility genetic testing and risk management: a systematic review of patient impact and experience.Frontiers in health services · 2023Review
- Sharing decisions amid uncertainties: a qualitative interview study of healthcare professionals' ethical challenges and norms regarding decision-making in gender-affirming medical care.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- The Importance of Teaching Ethics in Pharmacy Education.American journal of pharmaceutical education · 2022Article
- Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate.Ethics and information technology · 2022Article
- Bio-Ethics and One Health: A Case Study Approach to Building Reflexive Governance.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Ethical Reasoning During a Pandemic: Results of a Five Country European Study.AJOB empirical bioethicsArticle
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Abstract
This article illustrates and discusses the idea of 'implicit normativity', and specifically its relevance to the management of ethical uncertainty. In particular I consider (i) the role implicit normativity plays in masking and containing potential ethical uncertainty and (ii) the contrast and boundary between implicit normativity and 'overt ethics' where ethical contestation - as well as particular processes and agents - are highlighted as salient. Using examples I show how the idea of implicit normativity can be applied not only to specific practices but also to whole fields of practice. The notion of 'moral settlements' - along with the explanatory role of the threat of 'chaos' - is introduced and elucidated to develop these points. I argue that attention to the management of ethical uncertainty shows the critically important contribution that an ambitious sociology of ethics can make to clinical ethics, including by helping to formulate and drive home questions about the 'ethics of ethics'. The account presented here has resonances with work that seeks to use sociological lenses to move beyond conventional bioethics, including Petersen's (2013) call for a 'normative sociology'.
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