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Ethics Consultation: The Least Dangerous Profession?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Giles R. Scofield ,
John C. Fletcher ,
Albert R. Jonsen ,
Christian Lilje ,
Donnie J. Self  and
Judith Wilson Ross
Giles R. Scofield
Affiliation:
Health Law Program at Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York
John C. Fletcher
Affiliation:
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
Albert R. Jonsen
Affiliation:
Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
Christian Lilje
Affiliation:
University of Freiburg Medical School, Freiburg, Germany
Donnie J. Self
Affiliation:
Humanities in Medicine, Pediatrics, and Philosophy, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station
Judith Wilson Ross
Affiliation:
Center for Healthcare Ethics, St. Joseph Health System, Orange, California
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Extract

Whether ethics is too important to be left to the experts or so important that it must be is an age-old question. The emergence of clinical ethicists raises it again, as a question about professionalism. What role clinical ethicists should play in healthcare decision making – teacher, mediator, or consultant – is a question that has generated considerable debate but no consensus.

Type
Special Section: Ethics Consultants and Ethics Consultations
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 417 - 448
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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