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Article: Membership of institutional ethics committees.
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- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- May 1, 1991
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In 1983, the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral research [6] ascribed the following advantages of diverse membership for constitutional ethics committees: "First, having individuals from many different specialties, as well as those without professional specialization, can minimize the tendency to take the committee's task as essentially technical. Second, diversity can prevent ethics committees from becoming uncritically accepting of, or adverse to, the view of any professional or social group. Finally, since one of the central functions of ethics committees may be advise patients, families, and ...