2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Disentangling perspectives

Thank you.

All right.

So today I'm going to be talking about moral distress, something that I talk about ad nauseum, and yet it continues to interest me in different ways.

And I'm going to be talking about also this idea of moral compromise.

So I'm hoping to be able to kind of, like, there'll be probably a little bit of, a few areas that are maybe a little bit provocative, but hopefully get you kind of thinking about these concepts and coming up with some ideas that you'll be carrying with you through for the rest of the conference as well.

So these are going to be our learning objectives, so describing the subcategories of moral distress, identifying ways in which the narrow conception of moral distress can contribute to values imposition, and then recognising the role of moral compromise in mitigating moral distress.

So what you'll see is that I've gone with this quite loose kind of visual metaphor of disentangling hair to illustrate kind of the disentangling perspectives.

So I'm starting here with Medusa.

And this is going to be the kind of root of my disentangling.

So I'm going to first provide an introduction to the concept of moral distress and then briefly touch upon moral compromise.

and how I think these concepts can be connected.

Then I'm going to use a case study to draw out and kind of specify the subcategories of moral distress.

I'm going to provide some examples of the subcategories of moral distress.

And then I'm going to argue that I think that this kind of approach to moral distress, with this kind of broader approach, but then with these kind of refined and nuanced subcategories, actually can open up new possibilities for understanding each other.

And it also provides some new possibilities to help ethicists and also clinicians to identify some steps to facilitate moral compromise, which I think can help to bring us together as a moral community.

Then I'm going to close the session out with some key takeaways and hopefully generate some ideas that you can take with you.

So I'm gonna start with the concept of moral distress.

Thank you.

All right.

So today I'm going to be talking about moral distress, something that I talk about ad nauseum, and yet it continues to interest me in different ways.

And I'm going to be talking about also this idea of moral compromise.

So I'm hoping to be able to kind of, like, there'll be probably a little bit of, a few areas that are maybe a little bit provocative, but hopefully get you kind of thinking about these concepts and coming up with some ideas that you'll be carrying with you through for the rest of the conference as well.

So these are going to be our learning objectives, so describing the subcategories of moral distress, identifying ways in which the narrow conception of moral distress can contribute to values imposition, and then recognising the role of moral compromise in mitigating moral distress.

So what you'll see is that I've gone with this quite loose kind of visual metaphor of disentangling hair to illustrate kind of the disentangling perspectives.

So I'm starting here with Medusa.

And this is going to be the kind of root of my disentangling.

So I'm going to first provide an introduction to the concept of moral distress and then briefly touch upon moral compromise.

and how I think these concepts can be connected.

Then I'm going to use a case study to draw out and kind of specify the subcategories of moral distress.

I'm going to provide some examples of the subcategories of moral distress.

And then I'm going to argue that I think that this kind of approach to moral distress, with this kind of broader approach, but then with these kind of refined and nuanced subcategories, actually can open up new possibilities for understanding each other.

And it also provides some new possibilities to help ethicists and also clinicians to identify some steps to facilitate moral compromise, which I think can help to bring us together as a moral community.

Then I'm going to close the session out with some key takeaways and hopefully generate some ideas that you can take with you.

So I'm gonna start with the concept of moral distress.