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Malleable Morality: Re-Shaping Moral Judgments in Health Policymaking. 2023

Shelly Simana

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, STANFORD, CA, USA.

When confronted with moral dilemmas related to health, governments frequently turn to "moral experts," such as bioethicists and moral philosophers, for guidance and advice. They commonly assume that these experts' moral judgments are primarily a product of deliberate reasoning. The article challenges this assumption, arguing that experts' moral judgments may instead be primarily a product of moral intuitions which, often subconsciously, respond to the social setting.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007600	Judgment	The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.	Judgement,Judgements,Judgments
D009014	Morals	Standards of conduct that distinguish right from wrong.	Morality
D011050	Policy Making	The decision process by which individuals, groups or institutions establish policies pertaining to plans, programs or procedures.	Analysis, Policy,Policy Analysis,Policy Development,Analyses, Policy,Development, Policy,Developments, Policy,Making, Policy,Policy Analyses,Policy Developments
D006076	Government	The complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out in a specific political unit.	Governments
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D026822	Ethicists	Persons trained in philosophical or theological ethics who work in clinical, research, public policy, or other settings where they bring their expertise to bear on the analysis of ethical dilemmas in policies or cases. (Bioethics Thesaurus)	Bioethicists,Bioethics Consultants,Clinical Ethicist,Clinical Ethicists,Ethicist, Clinical,Ethicists, Clinical,Ethics Consultants,Bioethicist,Bioethics Consultant,Consultants, Bioethics,Consultants, Ethics,Ethicist,Ethics Consultant