Institutional identity, integrity, and conscience

Keven Wm Wildes

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Abstract
Bioethics has focused on the areas of individual ethical choices — patient care — or public policy and law. There are however, important arenas for ethical choices that have been overlooked. Health care is populated with intermediate arenas such as hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and health care systems. This essay argues that bioethics needs to develop a language and concepts for institutional ethics. A first step in this direction is to think about institutional conscience.


Wildes KW. Institutional identity, integrity, and conscience. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1997 Dec;7(4):413-419.