Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics—Medical Ethics in China and the United States

Fox, Renée C.; Swazey, Judith P.

doi:10.1353/pbm.1984.0060

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“…However, bioethical research conducted from a sociological and/or anthropological perspective more clearly compliments my account. For example, Fox and Swazey (1984) differentiate between "medical morality" and (practical or applied) "bioethics." Kleinmann (1995, p. 45) offers a similar account, and it can be found in more broadly focused texts (Edel & Edel, 2000, pp.…”

Section: Ethos and Eidos: Morality And Ethics From A Sociological Permentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise

Emmerich

2015

Sage Open

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This article outlines a theoretical and conceptual account for the analysis of contemporary ethical or "bioethical" expertise. The substantive focus is on the academic discipline of bioethics-understood as a "practical" or "applied" ethics-and its relationship to medicine and medical ethics. I draw intellectual inspiration from the sociology of science and make use of research into the idea of "expertise" per se. In so doing, I am attempting to move the debate beyond the limitations placed upon it by philosophical or meta-ethical analysis and develop a perspective than can be used to address the sociological reality of (bio)ethical expertise. To do so, I offer the terms ethos and eidos to provide a basic conceptual framework for the sociological analysis of "morality" and "ethics." I then turn to an exegesis of Collins and Evans's account of ubiquitous, contributory, and interactional expertise and situate these topics in relation to academic bioethics and medical practice. My account suggests a particular understanding of the kinds of relationships that "bioethics" should seek to foster with the social fields it endeavors to not only comment on but also influence.

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Section: Ethos and Eidos: Morality And Ethics From A Sociological Permentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise

Emmerich

2015

Sage Open

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“…Moral expertise, at least as reflected in the writings of many who work in applied ethics, appears to isolate moral issues from the social contexts in which they arise in order to make conceptual analysis possible. 19 Moral expertise thus is bankrupt because it becomes nothing more than an apologia for the norms of the dominant class. Moral experts, as Hegel once warned, are doomed to be nothing more than conceptual handmaidens to the powerful and dominant within a society.…”

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Moral Experts and Moral Expertise

Caplan¹

1989

Clinical Ethics

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“…Two decades ago Fox and Swazey (1984) voiced concerns regarding the limited interaction between sociology and bioethics arguing that as the field has evolved, it has lost sight of the importance of the groups and communities to which it belongs. As Borry et al (2005) posit, the fundamental reason that bioethics keeps empirical approaches outside its borders has to do with the usually strict distinction between descriptive and normative ethics.…”

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Conceptualizing Boundaries for the Professionalization of Healthcare Ethics Practice: A Call for Empirical Research

Brown

McGee

2014

HEC Forum

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One of the challenges of modern healthcare ethics practice is the navigation of boundaries. Practicing healthcare ethicists in the performance of their role must navigate meanings, choices, decisions and actions embedded in complex cultural and social relationships amongst diverse individuals. In light of the evolving state of modern healthcare ethics practice and the recent move toward professionalization via certification, understanding boundary navigation in healthcare ethics practice is critical. Because healthcare ethics is endowed with many boundaries which often delineate concerns about professional expertise and authority, epistemological reflection on the relationship between theory and practice points toward the social context as relevant to the conceptualization of boundaries. The skills of social scientists may prove helpful to provide data and insights into the conceptualization and navigation of clinical ethics qua profession. Empirical ethics research, which combines empirical description (usually social scientific) with normative-ethical analysis and reflection, is a way forward as we engage and reflect upon issues which have implications for practice standards and professionalization of the role. This requires cooperative engagement of the descriptive and normative disciplines to explore our understandings of boundaries in healthcare ethics practice. This will contribute to the ongoing reflection not only as we envision the professional role but to ensure that it is enacted in practice.

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Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics—Medical Ethics in China and the United States

Cited by 165 publications

References 10 publications

A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise

A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise

Moral Experts and Moral Expertise

Conceptualizing Boundaries for the Professionalization of Healthcare Ethics Practice: A Call for Empirical Research

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