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Slow ethics: A sustainable approach to ethical care practices?
- Source :
- Clinical Ethics; Dec2013, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p98-104, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Recent UK reports have revealed extensive evidence of unethical care practices. Older and vulnerable patients in some British health services have experienced appalling and avoidable suffering. Explanations for, and solutions to, these care failures have been proposed with wide-ranging recommendations. Many of these have direct implications for clinical ethics with additional frameworks for ethical values proposed, a heightened awareness of the moral culture of organisations acknowledged and a renewed interest in the ethics component of professional education debated. In this paper, I suggest that we integrate insights from the slow movement into clinical ethics practice. Distinctions are made between fast and slow healthcare practice and between fast and slow ethics. I argue that, whilst there is a place for both, slow ethics enables us to assume a more positive stance in relation to ‘crisis’, and requires that we learn from past accounts and scholarship and consider the role of clinical ethics in sustaining caring cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEDICAL ethics
PROFESSIONAL education
MEDICAL care
SUFFERING
OLDER patients
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14777509
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97409368
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750913502615