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Rebuttal: Expert Ethics Testimony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Françoise Baylis
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According to Giles Scofield, ethicists can provide expert testimony in descriptive ethics and metaethics, but not normative ethics. Lawrence Schneiderman appears to disagree with this view, and presumably believes that it is appropriate for an expert witness in ethics to provide ethics testimony in all three areas. I draw this conclusion from several claims made in his commentary which aim to show that we would be contending experts if both invited to testify on a case involving claims about futile medical treatment. This disagreement aside, taken together both commentaries suggest that my testimony in the case of Andrew Sawatzky is wanting.

In the response that follows I do not engage in a debate about the content of my testimony.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , Fall 2000 , pp. 240 - 242
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2000

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