NDLI: The Professional Status of Bioethics Consultation

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Cummins, Deborah
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Is bioethics consultation a profession? Withfew exceptions, the arguments andcounterarguments about whether healthcareethics consultation is a profession haveignored the historical and cultural developmentof professions in the United States, the wayssocial changes have altered the work andboundaries of all professions, and theprofessionalization theories that explain howmodern societies institutionalize expertise inprofessions. This interdisciplinary analysisbegins to fill this gap by framing the debatewithin a larger theoretical context heretoforemissing from the bioethics literature. Specifically, the question of whether ethicsconsultation is a profession is examined fromthe perspectives of trait theory, Wilensky'sfive-stage process of professionalization,Abbott's interdependent system of professions,and Haug's deprofessionalization thesis. Whilehealthcare ethics consultation does not meetthe criteria to claim professional status,neither could most professions pass these idealtheoretical standards. Instead of a yes or nodichotomous response to the question, it ismore helpful to envision a professionalizationcontinuum with sales clerks or carpenters atone end and medicine or law at the other. During the past decade healthcare ethicsconsultation has been moving along thiscontinuum toward greater professional status.
Starting Page	19
Ending Page	43
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13867415
Journal	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731200
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy Ethics Philosophy of Medicine General Surgery History of Medicine
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Medicine

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