Description du projet
Enseignements sur les résidus moraux
Tout le monde, en particulier les professionnels de la santé, est porteur de résidus moraux (RM), qui se définissent comme la détresse qui persiste à l’issue d’une situation, quel qu’en soit le responsable. Le projet MORE, financé par l’UE, étudiera les RM en vue d’améliorer la compréhension philosophique et phénoménologique de ce phénomène. Pour ce faire, il identifiera les situations à l’origine de RM dans les soins de santé, évaluera les fictions narratives littéraires liées aux RM qui modifient les concepts de soi et d’autrui (c.-à-d. la lecture transformative), et développera et testera les mérites potentiels d’une nouvelle méthode narrative pour l’éducation à l’éthique médicale (c.-à-d. apprendre aux professionnels des soins de santé à reconnaître leur vulnérabilité aux RM et à accepter l’échec dans des situations inévitables). Les conclusions de MORE profiteront aux professionnels du secteur des soins de santé et autres qui sont confrontés aux effets de l’éthique appliquée.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
0313 Oslo
Norvège