title: [Ethics committees: medical treatment counseling or prescribing?].
abstract: Ethics committees react to the crisis of justification of both research and treatment in modern medicine. Their composition, functioning, task, and identity depend on the question if they consider themselves as instruments of controller consultation. The more moral thinking in medicine is oriented towards support for reasoning, towards consultation for solving conflicts of motivation, and in elucidation interests the more ethics committees will succeed in becoming institutions of consultation by ethical reasoning in medicine.
authors.affiliation: Forschungsstelle Ethik und Recht in der Medizin, Universität Freiburg, BRD.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Illhardt
mesh_terms: D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
vernacular_title: Ethikkommissionen: medizinisches Handeln beraten oder anordnen?