Intersectionality as a tool for clinical ethics consultation in mental healthcare.
Minority groups
Multiple discrimination
Racism
Social justice
Structural discrimination
Journal
Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM
ISSN: 1747-5341
Titre abrégé: Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101258058
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 May 2024
02 May 2024
Historique:
received:
29
06
2023
accepted:
03
03
2024
medline:
2
5
2024
pubmed:
2
5
2024
entrez:
1
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Bioethics increasingly recognizes the impact of discriminatory practices based on social categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation or ability on clinical practice. Accordingly, major bioethics associations have stressed that identifying and countering structural discrimination in clinical ethics consultations is a professional obligation of clinical ethics consultants. Yet, it is still unclear how clinical ethics consultants can fulfill this obligation. More specifically, clinical ethics needs both theoretical tools to analyze and practical strategies to address structural discrimination within clinical ethics consultations. Intersectionality, a concept developed in Black feminist scholarship, is increasingly considered in bioethical theory. It stresses how social structures and practices determine social positions of privilege and disadvantage in multiple, mutually co-constitutive systems of oppression. This article aims to investigate how intersectionality can contribute to addressing structural discrimination in clinical ethics consultations with a particular focus on mental healthcare. To this end, we critically review existing approaches for clinical ethics consultants to address structural racism in clinical ethics consultations and extend them by intersectional considerations. We argue that intersectionality is a suitable tool to address structural discrimination within clinical ethics consultations and show that it can be practically implemented in two complementary ways: 1) as an analytic approach and 2) as a critical practice.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38693533
doi: 10.1186/s13010-024-00156-w
pii: 10.1186/s13010-024-00156-w
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
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Organisme : Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
ID : 01GP1792
Organisme : Economic Social Research Council
ID : ES/P000703/1 - PR - 2462475
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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