The Hospital Ethics Committee Health Care's Moral Conscience or White Elephant?

Hastings Center Report 22 (1):6 (1992)
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In a morally fragmented society there is no good reason for ethics committees to assume any particular point of view, yet failure to do so compromises their ability to function in either a case‐review or an educational capacity. A casuist methodology might enable committees to fulfill both roles.

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