https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2023.1241

Ethical consultation in the healthcare field

Vol. 72 No. 3 (2023)
Published: October 27, 2023
bedside ethics, ethics consultant and expert, institutional ethics departments
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Paolo Marino Cattorini
pm.cattorini@gmail.com
Counselor filosofico, già professore ordinario di Bioetica clinica e già componente del Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica, Italy.

The role, identity and responsibility of the so called expert in bioethics is a main, urgent issue in the contemporary medical and ethical debate upon the mission of the health care institutions and upon the need for Ethical Services/Departments in Hospital and Research Centers. An advice by the Comitato nazionale per la Bioetica is commented. Questions are raised about the philosophical or rather clinical nature of the bed-side ethics consultation and about the competences and professional skills of the consultant (non-directive posture, the aim of reaching a share decision, the improvement of the patients' autonomy and interest). The features of Ethics Research Centers are also analyzed

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Cattorini, P. M. (2023). Ethical consultation in the healthcare field. Medicina E Morale, 72(3), 267–283. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2023.1241

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