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

David C Blake

The Hastings Center Report
The Hastings Center Report

Abstract
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.


Blake DC. The Hospital Ethics Committee: Health Care’s Moral Conscience or White Elephant?. Hastings Cent Rep. 1992;22(1):6-11.

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