TY - JOUR
T1 - The personal is the organizational in the ethics of hospital social workers
AU - Walsh-Bowers, Richard
AU - Rossiter, Amy
AU - Prilleltensky, Isaac
N1 - Funding Information:
The research is funded by an Applied Ethics Strategic Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, to the authors. We are grateful to the social work staff for their participation.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Understanding the social context of clinical ethics is vital for making ethical discourse central in professional practice and for preventing harm. In this paper we present findings about clinical ethics from in-depth interviews and consultation with 7 members of a hospital social work department. Workers gave different accounts of ethical dilemmas and resources for ethical decision making than did their managers, whereas workers and managers agreed on core-guiding ethical principles and on ideal situations for ethical discourse. We discuss the research team's initial interpretations, the relevance of the extant ethics literature to organizational structures and dynamics, and alternative perspectives on clinical ethics.
AB - Understanding the social context of clinical ethics is vital for making ethical discourse central in professional practice and for preventing harm. In this paper we present findings about clinical ethics from in-depth interviews and consultation with 7 members of a hospital social work department. Workers gave different accounts of ethical dilemmas and resources for ethical decision making than did their managers, whereas workers and managers agreed on core-guiding ethical principles and on ideal situations for ethical discourse. We discuss the research team's initial interpretations, the relevance of the extant ethics literature to organizational structures and dynamics, and alternative perspectives on clinical ethics.
KW - Clinical ethics
KW - Organizational structures and dynamics
KW - Social work ethics
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U2 - 10.1207/s15327019eb0604_3
DO - 10.1207/s15327019eb0604_3
M3 - Article
C2 - 11656596
AN - SCOPUS:0030348112
VL - 6
SP - 321
EP - 335
JO - Ethics and Behavior
JF - Ethics and Behavior
SN - 1050-8422
IS - 4
ER -