Why Clinical Ethicists Are Not Activists
By Carl Elliott,
Hastings Center Report
| 07. 13. 2021
Abstract
Activism is rare among clinical ethicists because the position of ethics consultant is constructed in a way that makes activism very difficult. Clinical ethicists have little formal power and few job protections; they work in organizations in which dissent is discouraged if not punished; and as institutional insiders, they often become blind to the injustices that outsiders protest against.
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