Ethicists as a Force for Institutional Change and Policies to Promote Equality
In his recent JAMA article, Donald Berwick eloquently describes what he termed the “moral determinants of health,” by which he meant a strong sense of social solidarity in which people in the United States would “depend on each other for securing the basic circumstances of healthy lives,” reflecting a “moral law within.” Berwick’s work should serve as a call to action for bioethicists and clinical ethicists to consider what they can do to be forces of broad moral change in their institutions.
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care activism bioethics COVID-19 George Floyd Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care inequality moral determinants of health racism social determinants of health syndicated Source Type: blogs