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Moral residue - epistemological ramifications, ethical implications and didactic opportunities

Projektbeschreibung

Fakten über moralische Residuen lehren

Alle Menschen und insbesondere die Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe tragen moralische Residuen in sich, d. h. Schuld- und Schamgefühle, die nach dem Ende einer Situation zurückbleiben, ganz unabhängig davon, wer für diesen Notfall verantwortlich war. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt MORE wird moralische Residuen untersuchen, um ihr philosophisches und phänomenologisches Verständnis zu verbessern. Zu diesem Zweck werden moralische Residuen verursachende Situationen in der Gesundheitsversorgung ermittelt, mit moralischen Residuen in Verbindung stehende Erzählliteratur, die das Selbst- und Fremdbild verändert (d. h. transformative Lektüre), einer Bewertung unterzogen und die potenziellen Vorteile einer neuen narrativen Methode für die medizinische Ethikausbildung entwickelt und erprobt (d. h. die Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe lernen, ihre Anfälligkeit gegenüber moralischen Residuen anzuerkennen und das Versagen in unvermeidlichen Situationen zu akzeptieren). Die Ergebnisse von MORE werden den Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe und Fachkräften in anderen Branchen, die von angewandter Ethik betroffen sind, zugute kommen.

Ziel

This project is a contribution to moral philosophy, to the didactics of transformative reading and to medical ethics education. It examines moral residue (MR); the distress experience common among health care practitioners as well as other moral agents of recognizing what they take to be their own failure to meet a moral requirement, despite not being fully blameworthy for that failure; and which they express through regret or anguish. Our overall aim is threefold: (1) to substantially advance the philosophical and phenomenological understanding of MR, as a concept and as an experience, by analysing situations of MR caused by moral dilemmas, and by directing attention to situations that have not been explored or are under-explored - MR caused by unavoidable normative ignorance or by impermissible emotions; (2) to empirically study the impact of literary narrative fiction (that is thematically related to MR) in altering concepts of self and others, a process we call “transformative reading”, and (3) to devise, and to empirically test the potential merits of a novel narrative method for medical ethics education that we believe can enable health care practitioners to learn how to acknowledge their inherent vulnerability to MR, and to accept that they are likely to fail morally in ways that they may not be able to avoid, without this acceptance compromising their sense of dignity as moral agents. The aims are intimately connected in that it is the philosophical research into MR which motivates and enables the didactic part of the project, and which thereby binds it together into an integrated whole. The investigation is conducted in health care because this context makes apparent the full range of contingencies in life that impose limits to the rational exercise of moral agency, and which thereby lock agents into diversified situations of MR. However, since MR is pervasive also outside of health care, we believe it will benefit other branches of applied ethics as well.

Programm/Programme

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 1 152 995,15
Adresse
PROBLEMVEIEN 5-7
0313 Oslo
Norwegen

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Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Gesamtkosten
€ 1 152 995,15

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