Upcoming Event:
The Value of Moral Case Deliberation for the varieties of clinical ethics support services.
Professor Bert Molewijk
Amsterdam University Medical Centres & the University of Oslo.
Event Details:
Abstract: The focus of this talk will be on Moral Case Deliberation (MCD), an approach to situated ethical analysis that has been developed by the speaker and his colleagues. After a short overview over various types of clinical ethics support services, Bert will discuss the MCD, specifically its characteristics and its distinguished contributions to quality of care, team cooperation, moral competence and the handling of moral distress. For health care organizations and ethics support staff, it is important to not only distinguish these different ethics support approaches and related services but also the underlying viewpoints on, and normative assumptions of, ‘doing ethics’. Inspired by pragmatic hermeneutics MCD is a dialogical approach. In dialogical ethics support, dialogue is more than being kind and empathetic; it is a theoretical and moral necessity. Finally, Bert will present in which way Amsterdam UMC has integrated various types of clinical ethics support (e.g. explaining how the ethics committee and the MCD facilitators work together).
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Stream Leaders
Dr Nathan Emmerich
Dr Nathan Emmerich is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at the School of Medicine and Psychology at ANU. He is the lead for Professionalism and Leadership in Phase One of the MChD and teaches a large course in Bioethics which functions as a capstone for biology and biology-related degrees offered at ANU. He is the Deputy Chair of ACT Health’s Clinical Ethics Committee. His current research interests related to conscientious objection, the regulation of abortion, the provision of care at the end of life, and psychedelic medicine.