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McClimans, Leah and Slowther, Anne (2016) Moral expertise in the clinic : lessons learned from medicine and science. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 41 (4). pp. 401-415. doi:10.1093/jmp/jhw011 ISSN 0360-5310.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhw011
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Medicine and Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0360-5310 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 401-415 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jmp/jhw011 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 September 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 June 2018 |
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