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1Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 20057, USA.
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
The role of an expert witness in ethics, as part of a legal proceeding, is examined in this essay. The essay argues that the use of such expertise rests on confusions about normative and non-normative ethics compounded by misunderstandings about the challenges of moral argument in secular, morally pluralistic societies.