Institutional Identity, Integrity, and Conscience

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1997 English Publisher:Project MUSEJournal:Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, volume 7, pages 413-419 (eissn: 1086-3249,

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Authors: Keven Wm, Wildes;

doi: 10.1353/ken.1997.0042

pmid: 11655374

Institutional Identity, Integrity, and Conscience

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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.

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History, Social Responsibility, Economics, Science, Managed Care Programs, Catholicism, Guidelines as Topic, Bioethics, Models, Theoretical, Organizational Policy, United States, Philosophy, Social Justice, Hospitals, Religious, Medicine, Postmodernism, Ethics, Institutional, Delivery of Health Care, Goals, Conscience

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