title: Dental ethics and the role of experts.
abstract: Moral problems in dentistry have both a technical and an evaluative component, but expertise in clinical dentistry does not confer expertise in clarifying evaluative issues. Ethical expertise consists of the capacity either to provide strong justifications for a range of ethical propositions or to perform a skill well according to the moral rules and virtues of a practice. I consider four areas of ethical expertise, the contributions that ethics experts might make to the practice of dentistry, and who the likely candidates to be ethics experts are.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Ethics and Law, Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Weinstein
mesh_terms: D032781:Codes of Ethics; D028663:Ethical Theory; D026822:Ethicists; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D024382:Professional Role; D012380:Role; D028722:Virtues